There’s this website called 2Snaps which is evidently trying very hard to be TMZ with an edge.

What they’re doing is taking a lot of TMZ’s stories and others purloined from Google knows where and spinning them with signature snarky commentary. Presumably in the name of humor.

Today they took Verne Troyer’s girlfriend Ranae Shrider over the coals as having a nose only a midget could love. On the Don Rickles scale, this remark isn’t even worth the effort. So being insulting in a clever way is an art form these guys, obviously, have yet to acquire. And recently they also practiced their craft on Tera Patrick.

What they said isn’t worth repeating, but it affords me an opportunity of putting a couple cents into the issue. I met Tera…hmmm…..back when she was doing her twice a month Internet show for Digital Playground. Beautiful. Very nice lady, smart, witty and always charming.

But the thing that immediately struck me about Tera was her facial resemblance to my first girlfriend. But without the bangs. And the brown hair.

Because she was close to 6 foot with legs impossible for most athletically inclined women to equal, I’d like to say I met Barbara on a snooty country club tennis or volley ball court. Except I didn’t. I picked her up at a bus stop.

The stories get pretty colorful from there, believe me, but the fact is I felt harmony when I met Tera. I felt kinship. Because it was like looking into the face of my past and those humid June Philadelphia suburban nights in the front seat of a 1964 Plymouth Valiant.

Barbara had some Asian in her- that I’m sure, but I never dared ask- her mother being a beefy, 275 pound single mom waitress with forearms like Bruno Sammartino.

When most normal guys look at Tera, they drool. When 2Snaps does, they write ill manufactured insults. Me, I wonder if Barbara ever filled out to have forearms like her mother.