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"Jeremy \"UncleHoot\" Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftware cmo> wrote:
> In June of 2009, Michael Jackson was a complete joke. He was a pedophile
> who got away with it, and everyone "knew" it. All of his musical
> accomplishments were largely forgotten, or swept under the rug.
You are seeing only one side of it. The internet and tabloids were full
of MJ jokes (and outright insults), but those were just a vocal minority.
If *everybody* (or even the majority) had thought he was a complete joke,
his albums wouldn't have sold as much as they did.
> For the next 2 months, he was on TV every single day, often MTV or VH1, but
> nearly every day, someone was running a special about him on some channel.
> Someone put together a movie. You'd hear his songs being played in cars as
> they drove by. Suddenly, it was perfectly ok to like Michael Jackson again
> without being laughed at. Why?
Because making jokes about a dead person is considered a faux pas.
Also, the majority who appreciated MJ are now more vocal than the minority
who laughed at him.
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- Warp
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Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:
> Then he died.
Have you noticed how every time a schoolboy is killed in a tragic
accident or dies of a horrible disease or is randomly shot by gunmen or
something, his friends from the school always say "he was a happy,
out-going boy who was loved by everyone"?
I've never yet heard anybody say "it's a shame he's dead, but actually
he was a bit of a tosser". Surely some people who get killed *are* not
well liked. Not that they deserve to die or anything, but surely not
everybody who gets killed was the very center of the community they
lived in.
I sometimes wonder what people will say about me after I'm dead. Whether
they'll claim I was popular and successful, liked by everybody. Or
whether they'll say the truth: that hardly anybody even noticed me in
their day to day lives. I can just see the conversation in the tea room
at work now. "Andrew died." "Oh, that's terrible." "Yeah." "...anyway,
so what did you do this weekend?"
Of course, most of the people who "know" me are only contactable online,
so if I did die, most of the people I know would just assume my PC
stopped working or something...
The fact that I've spent this long thinking about my own death probably
tells you something about my mental state. o_O
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http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I sometimes wonder what people will say about me after I'm dead.
I'm sure that we will all be here laughing at your poor literacy,
your bloggish posts and your luck with women (or lack thereof)... ;)
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- Warp
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It was not Michael Jackson who died, it was just this sad old freak, you know?
His persona, mannerisms, performances and music will live on.
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On 26-1-2010 22:32, Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> I sometimes wonder what people will say about me after I'm dead.
>
> I'm sure that we will all be here laughing at your poor literacy,
> your bloggish posts and your luck with women (or lack thereof)... ;)
I don't think so.
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andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> On 26-1-2010 22:32, Warp wrote:
> > Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> I sometimes wonder what people will say about me after I'm dead.
> >
> > I'm sure that we will all be here laughing at your poor literacy,
> > your bloggish posts and your luck with women (or lack thereof)... ;)
> I don't think so.
Your sense of humor is astounding.
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- Warp
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On 26-1-2010 23:20, Warp wrote:
> andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> On 26-1-2010 22:32, Warp wrote:
>>> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>> I sometimes wonder what people will say about me after I'm dead.
>>> I'm sure that we will all be here laughing at your poor literacy,
>>> your bloggish posts and your luck with women (or lack thereof)... ;)
>
>> I don't think so.
>
> Your sense of humor is astounding.
Thanks, I aim to please
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On 01/26/10 12:07, Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:
> I'm confused.
>
> In June of 2009, Michael Jackson was a complete joke. He was a pedophile
> who got away with it, and everyone "knew" it. All of his musical
> accomplishments were largely forgotten, or swept under the rug.
You must not have been on the newsgroups when it happened. Certainly,
the "everyone knew it" claim is quite questionable.
> For the next 2 months, he was on TV every single day, often MTV or VH1, but
> nearly every day, someone was running a special about him on some channel.
> Someone put together a movie. You'd hear his songs being played in cars as
> they drove by. Suddenly, it was perfectly ok to like Michael Jackson again
> without being laughed at. Why?
You do realize he still had a huge number of fans prior to his death,
right?
--
"Graphic Artist seeks Boss with vision impairment."
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Neeum Zawan <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
> On 01/26/10 12:07, Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:
> > I'm confused.
> >
> > In June of 2009, Michael Jackson was a complete joke. He was a pedophile
> > who got away with it, and everyone "knew" it. All of his musical
> > accomplishments were largely forgotten, or swept under the rug.
> You must not have been on the newsgroups when it happened. Certainly,
> the "everyone knew it" claim is quite questionable.
I understood Jeremy to mean that everyone took for granted that he was
guilty, even though there's no actual proof. (After all, in modern society
being accused of child molestation equals being guilty.) I don't think he
meant that *he* takes it for granted.
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- Warp
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On 01/26/10 14:49, Warp wrote:
>> You must not have been on the newsgroups when it happened. Certainly,
>> the "everyone knew it" claim is quite questionable.
>
> I understood Jeremy to mean that everyone took for granted that he was
> guilty, even though there's no actual proof. (After all, in modern society
Yes, and I was questioning that assumption.
--
"Graphic Artist seeks Boss with vision impairment."
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