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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jul 13, 2009 9:09:27 GMT -5
Bravo, making these things is fun, isn't it? I think you covered every possible theory, and the incredibly difficult task of explaining them all at once, lol. Thanks JJ! It IS hard to squeeze everything in without being overwhelming. There's tons more I wanted to include, but all of the sudden you look, and it's past the five minute mark!
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jul 12, 2009 19:06:55 GMT -5
I made a (hopefully) funny little video about our kid.
I hope you enjoy it!
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jul 12, 2009 18:58:58 GMT -5
My Brave Face_Bill McFakeney
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jul 10, 2009 17:23:24 GMT -5
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jul 5, 2009 17:25:55 GMT -5
HP and Heinz Ketchup on the same table? Scandalous!
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jul 4, 2009 12:19:36 GMT -5
Ever get the feeling you're being programmed???THE COLONY
It’s a controlled experiment that aims to determine exactly what it would take to survive and rebuild a functioning society in the wake of a “global catastrophe.”
The Colonists must work together to build everything required for survival and civilization, from a water filtration system to a battery bank for electricity to a solar cooker and a greenhouse. They will also be periodically attacked by “a hostile gang of looters and thugs” who will attempt to raid their colony, forcing them to devise a security plan for the warehouse. realitytv.suite101.com/article.cfm/discovery_channels_the_colony
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jul 4, 2009 11:22:43 GMT -5
"A lot of people we admired were killed." VERY interesting wording. Wonder why the interviewer didn't pursue THAT line of questioning...
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jul 2, 2009 14:58:43 GMT -5
Going places I hadn't thought existed, huh? Can't wait! And thanks everyone for the tips/advise. One last question and then I'll shut my pie hole: Since I'm new, I've been digging through a lot of the old posts/topics, some of which haven't had a response to them in well over a year (or more). I'd like to reply to some of them, especially the ones where people have supplied audio/video/pics, if only to say "thanks for sharing". So my question is this; do the people on this board subscribe to the "the post is dead--let's move on" theory or is it OK to post a response to these old, old topics? Once again, thanks everyone! BTW, I would have to agree that the search feature leaves much to be desired. I tried doing a search for "Rosemary's Baby" and got one hit--thisone's post telling me to search for Rosemary's Baby! I think thisone was suggesting that you *watch* Rosemary's Baby. In any event, reply #4 in this thread gives a pretty good summary of the Rosemary's Baby connection: invanddis.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=Clues&thread=5636&page=1And there's no need to worry about commenting on old threads. They're all fair game as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jul 2, 2009 11:45:27 GMT -5
The Prodigal jacket returns... A salute to the Sgt. Pepper-style jacket TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE June 18, 2009 1:51 a.m. While the boyfriend blazer is becoming a popular staple in women’s fashion, embraced for its versatility and practical charm, there’s another jacket elbowing for position. The Balmain blazer is in a league of its own. It is red hot right now — and by virtue of its sheer trendiness, the jacket may have a brief lifespan. The regimental Sgt. Pepper jacket, reminiscent of the Beatles and Michael Jackson in his Thriller days, came marching down the spring runway at Balmain in Paris — and it ignited a fashion revolution. An army of copies and lookalikes has surfaced at high-end boutiques and fast-fashion outlets. It is just part of the Balmain mania that’s gripping fashion right now. As one of the hottest labels in the world, it is responsible for a renewed interest in ripped acid-washed jeans, skinny leather pants, shoulder pads and the goth rock chick aesthetic that is looming for fall. Credit goes to the label’s designer, Christophe Decarnin. His cadet style jackets have had celebrities like Rihanna and Beyoncé rushing to join the Balmain brigade. But just how hot are these jackets? Well, they retailed for $4,900 at The St. Regis Room at the Bay. And they are already sold out. Plan B for those aspiring to join the band involves capturing one of these recession-friendly versions. -------------- Not even at Walmart for $49.00 It's the shoulder pads... Because I just *had* to know...
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jul 2, 2009 11:01:17 GMT -5
The new morning light
Ev'ry time I see your face
Try to betray me
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jul 2, 2009 10:53:32 GMT -5
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jul 1, 2009 10:20:36 GMT -5
This is one of the funnier things I've seen in a while.
Too many stellar moments for me to pick out one to highlight.
Just invest 5:33 and have a few chucks...
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jul 1, 2009 10:16:34 GMT -5
Thanks, Letter B and P(D)enny La(i)ne, for the warm welcomes! Quick question for either of you (or anyone else, for that matter): is there an "essential/read-me-first/FAQ" section of this board? In other words, as a newbie, is there a place on this board I can go to see if a question has already been asked/answered to death? Or do I just need to go ahead and ask questions, knowing full well I might be pelted with rocks and garbage for asking a dead-horse question? "is there a place on this board I can go to see if a question has already been asked/answered to death?"Well, this is sort of a bone of contention around these parts. The search function isn't completely useless, but it does leave a lot to be desired. There's really no FAQ section either. We DO have a Best of NIR section however, where we keep our favorite threads. invanddis.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=5118I'd add these threads to that list as well: FOLLOW MR. APOLLO: invanddis.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Clues&action=display&thread=5636Magical Crowley Tour: invanddis.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Clues&action=display&thread=5230It's the Lily, Silly: invanddis.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Clues&action=display&thread=5261Apple Starr: invanddis.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Clues&action=display&thread=5244Beyond that, don't be afraid delve into anything, and we'll tell you (usually in a nice way ;D) if it's been done to death. Anyone else care to jump in? P(D)
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jun 30, 2009 15:56:28 GMT -5
Greetings, Mister Jim.
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jun 30, 2009 8:11:40 GMT -5
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jun 29, 2009 12:02:19 GMT -5
The most touching obituary I came across online by musicindustry insider Bob Lefsetz: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The King Is Dead He missed his childhood and now he’s gonna miss his old age. How fucked up is that? Michael Jackson never had a chance. He had to succeed for his family, his parents’ dreams were dependent upon him... ...The king is dead. Long live the king. lefsetz.com/wordpress/ That was nice, Jan.
This was written by a friend and former band-mate of mine.**** a world without michael jackson "turn on hit radio or mtv jams. song after song, artist after artist, male or female, white or black — every singer tries to sound like michael jackson. they attempt to mimic his phrasing, his articulation, his tone, his relationship to the backbeat. it’s so common that we hardly notice.
frequently, a classic album will be lost to public awareness for a decade or two, and then it’ll be re-discovered and mined for musical ideas. that never happened with thriller. the moment it hit stores twenty-seven years ago, record-makers began ripping it off. they’ve continued through the eighties, and the nineties, and the oughties, and they’ll keep on riding the tiger until long after we’re gone. thriller will never go out of style, because thriller is style.
somewhere on the steppes of finland, you might find a black metal band whose members claim that they’re not influenced by michael jackson. and that black metal band will be wrong. if you’ve made records, if you’ve performed in videos, if you’ve appeared on stage — hell, if you’ve attempted to market your music to anybody anywhere — you’ve felt michael jackson’s influence. not only did jackson change the way we do those things, he changed the way we think about doing them. his thumbprint altered the contours of popular music.
talent is a real thing. we all know people who have it. michael jackson had so much of it that it hung around him like a cloud. you could barely see the man through the talent. his singing was stupefying. his dancing remains (and will likely always remain) the standard that all music video performers must chase. his sense of rhythm was so unerring that rappers speak of him with the hushed respect otherwise reserved for james brown. above all he was a pop craftsman and record-maker with a common touch that was, quite literally, incredible; even now, it is hard to believe what he managed to do. as musicians, if we play a gig and our music connects — really connects — with twenty people, we might call that a good night. michael jackson’s music reached hundreds of millions of people, on every continent, in nearly every culture on earth. to put this in perspective: we all stand in awe of paul mccartney’s vocals, his playing, and his startling ability to channel the emotions of listeners through his writing. michael jackson was more talented than paul mccartney. it’s not even close. and mccartney would be the first person to tell you that.
it is inevitable that someone with that much talent — too much talent, arguably, for one body to contain — would begin to feel depersonalized and alienated. we know that michael jackson went (more than) a little nuts, and this development shouldn’t have taken anybody by surprise. unfortunately, we have grown a class of professional levelers whose jobs depend on their capacity to point out the character flaws of the talented, and it is indisputable that michael jackson gave these people all the ammunition they could ever have wished to have, and then some. for me, and maybe you, too, something happened that would have been inconceivable in 1983, or even 1992 — i started to lose interest in michael jackson’s story. where once jackson’s name would have been all the incentive i needed to read a news notice in the paper, it began to be an inducement to turn the page. the butt of lame late-night jokes: a terrible fate for a once-in-a-century entertainer.
but a funny thing happened on the way to the bonfire of michael jackson’s reputation. no matter how much ridicule was heaped on the musician, the music remained unscathed. nobody burned the records — we were too busy dancing to them. stadiums kept blasting “billie jean” and crowds kept singing along. allegations of pederasty could not stop a new generation of teenagers from making out to “rock with you”. bands kept covering his material and rappers kept sampling his tracks. when emcees — not a segment of society known for decorum or tact — rhymed about jackson, they continued to do so with reverence. all the invective and name-calling in hollywood could not tarnish his accomplishments, or loosen his hold over the popular imagination. some see the michael jackson story as pure tragedy: the tale of a victim of celebrity culture. i prefer to see it as a triumph over celebrity culture. none of the bullshit — and there were bucketsful of bullshit — could break that immortal groove.
i never bought a copy of thriller. i didn’t have to: my little sister had it on vinyl. she was six years old and didn’t know a pop star from a bag of popcorn; still, she knew wanted those songs. we used to spin it on her fisher-price record player and jump around. when the “thriller” clip made its mtv premiere (and, in the process, finally desegregated the channel), my mom and dad showed up in the den. we’d never watched a music video together before, and we never have since. here was the rare record that the whole family could agree on, the whole neighborhood, the whole terminally-divisive suburban jersey town. it became the star wars of popular music: if you didn’t dig it, if you weren’t nuts about it, well, you’d better have a pretty good explanation for yourself, buddy. r&b kids dug the beats. pop teens loved the melodies. budding synth nerds called quincy jones a production mastermind and marveled at the explosive sound of the record. when eddie van halen took that solo on “beat it”, even the metalheads had to give it up for michael jackson. “wanna be starting something” kicked off every block party, every birthday celebration, every bar mitzvah; for about six months in 1983, the entire pop firmament was united under one star. nothing like it has ever happened since. and i seriously doubt that anything like it will ever happen again.
out on pacific avenue today, a carful of kids drove by. they were singing “don’t stop ’til you get enough” as loud as they could; windows down, all smiles. and they weren’t thinking about lisa marie presley, or plastic surgery disasters, or babies dangled out of windows, or child abuse. they were thinking, if they were thinking at all, about a dazzling singer in full command of an astonishing talent. they were thinking about a pop song for the ages. that’s what will remain: after the hard copy yellows and the news broadcasts fade to static, the recordings will persist. michael jackson’s death may hasten the day when we put aside the garbage once and for all and hear only the music. but that was bound to happen anyway. gossip is gas and dissipates; only the art is irreducible.
this old world is big. if it embraces you, it’s going to crush you. michael jackson was embraced by the world more squarely and passionately than anybody; it’s amazing he made it as far as he did. if only vicariously, he got this clumsy planet to move with grace. for that alone (but for so much more, too) we all owe him an incalculable debt. better yet!, everybody knows."
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jun 29, 2009 10:27:04 GMT -5
Pope: Scientific analysis done on St. Paul's bones news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090628/ap_on_re/eu_vatican_popeBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press Sun Jun 28th ROME – The first-ever scientific tests on what are believed to be the remains of the Apostle Paul "seem to conclude" that they do indeed belong to the Roman Catholic saint, Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday. (huh?) Archaeologists recently unearthed and opened the white marble sarcophagus located under the Basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls in Rome, which for some 2,000 years has been believed by the faithful to be the tomb of St. Paul. Benedict said scientists had conducted carbon dating tests on bone fragments found inside the sarcophagus and confirmed that they date from the first or second century. "This seems to confirm the unanimous and uncontested tradition that they are the mortal remains of the Apostle Paul," Benedict said, announcing the findings at a service in the basilica to mark the end of the Vatican's Paoline year, in honor of the apostle. (What?!)Paul and Peter are the two main figures known for spreading the Christian faith after the death of Christ. According to tradition, St. Paul, also known as the apostle of the Gentiles, was beheaded in Rome in the 1st century during the persecution of early Christians by Roman emperors. Popular belief holds that bone fragments from his head are in another Rome basilica, St. John Lateran, with his other remains inside the sarcophagus. The pope said that when archaeologists opened the sarcophagus, they discovered - alongside the bone fragments - some grains of incense, a "precious" piece of purple linen with gold sequins and a blue fabric with linen filaments. Vatican archaeologists in 2002 began excavating the 8-foot-long coffin, which dates from at least A.D. 390 and was buried under the basilica's main altar. The decision to unearth it was made after pilgrims who came to Rome during the Roman Catholic Church's 2000 Jubilee year expressed disappointment at finding that the saint's tomb — buried under layers of plaster and further hidden by an iron grate — could not be visited or touched. The top of the coffin has small openings — subsequently covered with mortar — because in ancient times Christians would insert offerings or try to touch the remains. The basilica stands at the site of two 4th-century churches — including one destroyed by a fire in 1823 that had left the tomb visible, first above ground and later in a crypt. After the fire, the crypt was filled with earth and covered by a new altar. A slab of cracked marble with the words "Paul apostle martyr" in Latin was also found embedded in the floor above the tomb. Monday is the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, a major feast day for the Roman Catholic Church, during which the pope will bestow a woolen pallium, or scarf, on all the new archbishops he has recently named. The pallium is a band of white wool decorated with black crosses that is a sign of pastoral authority and a symbol of the archbishops' bond with the pope. At the end of Sunday's service in the warm basilica, the 82-year-old Benedict lost his balance slightly as he slipped on a step on the altar, and was steadied by one of his assistants who was by his side. Wow!
I can't believe that the article snuck this in..."According to tradition, St. Paul, also known as the apostle of the Gentiles, was beheaded in an automobile accident in the Autumn of 1966, during the interregnum between Revolver and Sgt. Pepper. Popular belief holds that bone fragments from his head were used as inlays on the fretboard of Jimmy Page's signature Les Paul, with his other remains inside the sarcophagus previously seen on the second cover of Yesterday and Today."
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jun 29, 2009 9:19:24 GMT -5
The musician is dating US millionaire Nancy Shevell. So if he marries her, and then they get divorced, does that mean he'll be dis-Shevelled?
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jun 28, 2009 12:51:24 GMT -5
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jun 28, 2009 12:12:21 GMT -5
Well, Sorcha Faal is sort of a modern-day Tokyo Rose, but I feel that he/she always mixes a bit of truth with the nonsense."To the reason behind the CIA needing to assassinate Michael Jackson, these reports continue, was an out of court settlement the pop icon signed with son of the king of Bahrain, Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Khalifa, this past November in London, and which stated, in part, that in exchange for millions of dollars previously lent to Mr. Jackson by the Sheikh, Mr. Jackson would allow his sold-out United Kingdom concerts to be a “platform” for warning the World of a soon to occur mass genocide event.
Both Michael Jackson and Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Khalifa have been long standing supporters of the fearless Austrian investigative journalist, Jane Burgermeister, who is warning the world that the greatest crime in the history of humanity is underway, and as we can read:
“Jane Burgermeister has recently filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and several of the highest ranking government and corporate officials concerning bioterrorism and attempts to commit mass murder. She has also prepared an injunction against forced vaccination which is being filed in America. These actions follow her charges filed in April against Baxter AG and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology of Austria for producing contaminated bird flu vaccine, alleging this was a deliberate act to cause and profit from a pandemic.
In her charges, Burgermeister presents evidence of acts of bioterrorism that is in violation of U.S. law by a group operating within the U.S. under the direction of international bankers who control the Federal Reserve, as well as WHO, UN and NATO. This bioterrorism is for the purpose of carrying out a mass genocide against the U.S. population by use of a genetically engineered flu pandemic virus with the intent of causing death. This group has annexed high government offices in the U.S.
Specifically, evidence is presented that the defendants, Barack Obama, President of the U.S, David Nabarro, UN System Coordinator for Influenza, Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, Kathleen Sibelius, Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, David de Rotschild, banker, David Rockefeller, banker, George Soros, banker, Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria, and Alois Stoger, Austrian Health Minister, among others, are part of this international corporate criminal syndicate which has developed, produced, stockpiled and employed biological weapons to eliminate the population of the U.S. and other countries for financial and political gain.
The charges contend that these defendants conspired with each other and others to devise, fund and participate in the final phase of the implementation of a covert international bioweapons program involving the pharmaceutical companies Baxter and Novartis. They did this by bioengineering and then releasing lethal biological agents, specifically the "bird flu" virus and the "swine flu virus" in order to have a pretext to implement a forced mass vaccination program which would be the means of administering a toxic biological agent to cause death and injury to the people of the U.S. This action is in direct violation of the Biological Weapons Anti-terrorism Act.”
Interesting to note, too, is on the day of Michael Jackson’s assassination, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that their mathematical models show over 1 million Americans have contracted swine flu and that of the 58,000 confirmed cases around the World the US has over half of them, and even worse, Emergency Containment Areas are now being reported being set up in that troubled country.
Sadly though, and with an acknowledgement that this World star had led a much troubled life, it can never be taken away from Michael Jackson the real love he had for all of humanity and best expressed by him in the chorus of his anthem to the human race, We Are The World:" www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1244.htm
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jun 28, 2009 8:34:48 GMT -5
Zombie Michael Jackson surprises helicopter crew"Did Michael Jackson fake his own death to get out of having to perform 50 concerts in the UK? That’s the question some sites are asking after footage taken the day he died shows Michael Jackson’s dead body sitting upright during a helicopter ride.
We of course have a far more logical explanation: it was simply Zombie Michael Jackson looking for Braaaaiiiiinnnnssss.
The video as follows. It does repeat with close ups so if you don’t see it at first, you’ll get another chance. Some are suggesting that it might be an illusion, but I can’t see how it could be. However we can’t see the rest of the body, so maybe someone was lifting the body site unseen. What do you think?" www.inquisitr.com/27584/zombie-michael-jackson-surprises-helicopter-crew/
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jun 27, 2009 11:49:03 GMT -5
So of course, the 911 call was made at 12:21... Look at the time on the clock, pretty close, not to mention that red heart to the right.. The numbers are a bit off, as the 3 is where the 4 should be, but the HANDS are definitely close enough to 12:21 to raise my suspicion.
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jun 27, 2009 9:09:43 GMT -5
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jun 26, 2009 9:48:57 GMT -5
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Jun 25, 2009 8:10:57 GMT -5
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