Eh, you’re right, MJ. I was over-reacting thinking that things could go down a pretty nasty lane. But, they weren’t, and they haven’t. Sorry about that!

I’m sorry too. I let a couple of things get under my skin and inserted myself into the conversation where I shouldn’t have.

I shut my computer off last night and took some time away. I needed to do that. I have a much better perspective this morning.

Honestly, not seeing the big deal, or why the speculation merits the cavalry marching in with their 20 paragraph posts. A variety of opinions have been expressed here. It’s all good.

Eh, you’re right, MJ. I was over-reacting thinking that things could go down a pretty nasty lane. But, they weren’t, and they haven’t. Sorry about that!

Did any Star Trek fans spend $8,500 for William Shatner’s underwear?

Hey! Who told you about that? But, an autographed copy of his album, The Transformed Man, was included! So, it was worth it.

Whoever git the 8k pair of BVDs, I hope they enjoy them 8k worth. Even if I had the money, I can’t imagine doing that – just eww. But hey – that’s just me.

Did any Star Trek fans spend $8,500 for William Shatner’s underwear? Just kidding

Don’t laugh! I bet they would!

have to give it up to Trekkers and Star Wars (well before Lucas destroyed the franchise) geeks in terms of devotion and spending money on useless crap. And hey, it wasn’t even for good causes.

It makes me think of Big Bang Theory!

If ontd_ai is right and the winning bidder is going to turn around and offer it for sale again to make more money for Haiti, I guess the old, bankrupt cat lady speculation will be wrong. If this ends up being true, then it seems that this was a extremely wealthy fan who just wanted to give to the Haiti relief effort and now wants to raise even more money for a good cause.

Thank God the money is going to a good cause. Because in about a year, the owner of that underwear is going to feel like a complete ninny. I’m really praying they can afford it.

Aint that the truth…. an 8k pair of drawers… only in America…lol

Yes, Kris and Cook fans think I favor Adam, Adam fans think I favor anyone but Adam. Taylor fans thought I was running an Elliott blog, Elliott fans thought I was running a Taylor blog…

But you WERE running a Taylor blog!!! hahahahahahahaha j/k j/k…. ahhhh the fireant memories….

I discovered your blog looking for Adam’s news, and now I’ve even started to like other idols as well….

Thank you for all this hardwork!!

Just kidding. I think that it’s underwear and not some special outfit that kind of makes the whole thing a tad surreal. Anyway, I’d say there are more than a few OTT Idol fans but I have no idea if this person is one of them.

http://www.people.com/people/gallery/0,,20342128_3,00.html#20735979

But why are we even questioning this. This is for Haiti relief.

That it’s for Haiti relief has nothing to do with the discussion. I don’t buy that just because a charity is involved, it’s off-limits to questions.

Both are possible, neither are proveable. Eh.

Exactly. And with that? I’m done.

tiger92 “Sisterhood of the travelling undies” Haha,aha I think I just
split my pleather pants….ala the Jessie interview!

Not to mention all the other geeky fandoms of my childhood, but some of them don’t spend as much money on things. I mean, I don’t THINK there are fangroups for “Sufferin’ Till Sufferage,” (SchoolHouse Rock) who seek to buy things somehow associated with it, but even if it were possible? I don’t want to know. Some childhood memories should remain inviolate.

Anyhew, yes there are always nutjobs who will bankrupt themselves for Idols, or sundry crap, they don’t make up the majority of the fans, but they do exist. It’s possible this winner of this auction was one. It’s possible they weren’t. I don’t take it personally to think that some Adam fan who spent a lot of money on something of Adam’s might be on the extreme end of the bellcurve. Totally possible and that’s a fair amount of money. However, without any evidence to say that it isn’t totally reasonable for them, I’m also not willing to say that this is automatically crazy and they don’t have the money to give to a really worthy charity AND also happen to get some Adam crap out of it.

Both are possible, neither are proveable. Eh.

mj
02/05/2010 at 11:21 pm

But to speculate that this anonamous bidder can’t afford the contribution, is a deluded fan or any other speculation has no basis.

Yes there is a basis. History. I’ve seen enough deluded fan behavior to know it’s quite possible.

It’s also possible that the person who made the donation could comfortably afford it. I don’t need your stats to prove that to me. All sorts of people make up fan bases–rich, poor, deluded rational.

It’s not a terrible thing to speculate. That’s what we do here.

I agree it is NOT a terrible thing to speculate — but is it a terrible thing to put forward facts that challenge that speculation?

There are two possibilities:

1. The buyer is a rational person who wanted to support the Red Cross effort in Haiti, is an Adam Lambert fans and can afford to donate $8,500 to Haiti Relief.

2. The buyer is a deluded Adam fan who just had to have some underwear that look like one’s Adam wore and a signed, framed Adam photograph and cannot really afford to donate $8,500 to Haiti Relief.

There are millions of rational Idol fans and some isolated cases of “deluded fan behavior”. So is #2 possible? Sure. But what are the odds?