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by Tom Ziller • Jan 6, 2009 5:15 PM EST
In recent years, clubgoers could count on celebrities to show up and "make it rain," a popular craze that involved large amounts of cash being tossed in the air. That wasn't the case at a number of clubs on New Year's Eve, including Poetry. "We had sporadic showers," said Powers. "It was only a drizzle. It wasn't at all like the hundreds of thousands of dollars we've seen in the past."The economy is partially blamed, though I think the concept's swift decline following the Pacman Jones saga and Javon Walker's summertime brush with death tells us more.

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My sources tell me that Bolivian athletes visit strip bars and "make it snow," throwing piles of cocaine at the dancers.
by L'etat, c'est moi on Jan 7, 2009 7:48 PM EST reply actions
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