# Is the latest Tom Cruise nutty news story a joke? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175 "2006-04-18T16:38:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/21 "2006-04-18T20:40:02Z")
If Tom Cruise ate the placenta _before_ the baby was born… Then. Then I would be suprised. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/22 "2006-04-18T20:41:41Z")
[QUOTE=anu-la1979] I thought I heard him on the Kevin and Beane show yesterday explaining that it was a joke. [/QUOTE] It was a _joke_. When you look at me that way, it was a _joke_. ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/23 "2006-04-18T21:27:29Z")
[QUOTE=madmonk28] Anyone else think that Tom Cruise is lining up to be the next totally nuts celebrity after Michael Jackson? and behind Tom in that line is Britney Spears. [/QUOTE] In my book, T. Cruise has definitely been a distant second to M. Jackson, but gaining. Now if this is true, he just may have done a Seabiscuit and surged into the lead. B. Spears is still a very distant third, but she is still in the race, shows no signs of tapering off, and later this year may just make it a threesome on the Platform, leaving all others behind in their dust. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/24 "2006-04-18T21:28:06Z")
If this catches on, I’m sure [Betty Crocker](http://www.mortalwombat.com/Special/PlacentaHelper.jpg) will take notice. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/25 "2006-04-18T21:37:11Z")
I believe Tom said he intends to eat the entire baby, along with some fava beans and a nice chianti. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/26 "2006-04-18T21:44:55Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] Tom would have to get behind Charlie Sheen, IMO. [/QUOTE] What did Sheen do to be as nuts as those other people? Okay, I see he is a conspiracy believer with regard to September 11. And we know he likes the hookers. But I don’t think that puts him at Cruise or Jackson’s level. ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/27 "2006-04-18T22:19:42Z")
[QUOTE=Birdmonster] Years until they’re wheeling Tom Cruise around on the Hannibal-Lecter-hand-cart: Two [/QUOTE] Damn you! They don’t believe I’m working on my project if I suddenly bust out laughing for seemingly no good reason. I kindly request you watch this in the future and be sensitive to those of us that are goofing off at work. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/28 "2006-04-18T22:21:13Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] What did Sheen do to be as nuts as those other people? Okay, I see he is a conspiracy believer with regard to September 11. And we know he likes the hookers. But I don’t think that puts him at Cruise or Jackson’s level. [/QUOTE] He also mistook his live-in girlfriend for an intruder and shot her in the arm. Seen, like Jackson, isn’t just a nut but a public nuisance as well. The others are just nuts. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/29 "2006-04-18T23:05:45Z")
[QUOTE=Honey] He also wants to eat the umbilical cord. I’m imagining having the consistency of overcooked calamari. [/QUOTE] Whether or not it’s a joke, and knowing that yes some people DO eat placenta, this part gave me the heebie-jeebies. Eew. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/30 "2006-04-18T23:38:13Z")
Well, he fooled us. It was a joke. But the baby is here, evidently. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/31 "2006-04-19T11:41:58Z")
[QUOTE=LiveOnAPlane] … he just may have done a Seabiscuit and surged into the lead. [/QUOTE] Just so you know, I find this line highly amusing and intend to use it every chance I get. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/32 "2006-04-19T12:15:34Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] Just so you know, I find this line highly amusing and intend to use it every chance I get. 😃 [/QUOTE] (blush) Aw, shucks… ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/33 "2006-04-19T13:08:25Z")
Welcome! baby girl Suri. Good luck to you. Interestingly, Brooke Shields had her baby girl, Grier, on the same day. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/34 "2006-04-19T13:15:42Z")
Wow arch enemies have their children at the same time?!?! This mean’s in 20 years there will be an epic battle between the Cruise and Sheilds babies as they vie for world domination. We are all doomed. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/35 "2006-04-19T13:38:05Z")
So - it was a joke…a really stupid, lame joke. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/36 "2006-04-19T13:43:51Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] He also mistook his live-in girlfriend for an intruder and shot her in the arm. [/QUOTE] Heck, the president does _that_. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/37 "2006-04-19T13:46:59Z")
See, when you publicly say something like, “I plan to eat my newborn baby’s placenta and umbilical cord,” and then have to explain to the whole world that you were just kidding, it ought to clue you in to the fact that most people have no problem believing that you are just crazy enough to actually do it. Will Tom take the hint? My money says no. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/38 "2006-04-19T14:06:57Z")
[QUOTE=kingpengvin] Wow arch enemies have their children at the same time?!?! This mean’s in 20 years there will be an epic battle between the Cruise and Sheilds babies as they vie for world domination. We are all doomed. [/QUOTE] No, it just sets up a lesbian version of Romeo and Juliet. About the “all doomed” part? Pretty much, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/39 "2006-04-19T14:50:31Z")
Tom Cruise IS a placenta. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175/40 "2006-04-19T15:03:11Z")
[QUOTE=Chefguy] Tom Cruise IS a placenta. [/QUOTE] [Arnold Schwarzenegger on Conan O’Brien] “YOU’RE a placenta! Aarrgghhh!” [/ASoCO’B] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-latest-tom-cruise-nutty-news-story-a-joke/353175.md?page=3)