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Rumpelstilskin
07/01/09

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Maybe his body will be in a glass tomb like Lenin or Mao, in the Capitol Record Tower or Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
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PandoraSpocks
07/01/09

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This weekend is going to be a classic California celebrity clusterfuck (Too much alliteration?)
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Gnip-Gnop
07/01/09

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How do people arrange time off from life to just pick up and stand vigil outside Neverland for a few days?
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StonedAndDethroned
07/01/09

@Gnip-Gnop: In California, most employers give you sick days, vacation days, personal days, and stand-around-and-do-something-relating-to-a-celebrity-death-or-trial-because-culture-is-for-yogurt-and-your-presence-there-validates-the-celebrity-industrial-complex-that-is-that-backbone-of-our-stupid-vapid-prop-8-state-hey-at-least-it's-always-sunny! days.

They must have had a few of the latter hanging around!
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StonedAndDethroned
07/01/09

@StonedAndDethroned: hey! most of it disappeared!
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CaptainFantastic
07/01/09

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Yet the press is still there. If the press left, I bet the sanest of the bunch would leave too.
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Colonel Mustard
07/01/09

@CaptainFantastic: "Sanest" being an entirely relative term, here.
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VoxPopuli
07/01/09

@CaptainFantastic: The media report on the rabid fans outside the gate and the fans stick around because they figure something's going to happen because there's reporters there. Then more reporters will come and report on the standoff between fans and media and then some people will see those news trucks and start gathering around to see what happens. And so on and so on.

And that is how California will finally break off the mainland U.S. and float off into the Pacific.
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CaptainFantastic
07/01/09

@VoxPopuli: Yes. That was my thought, but I didn't want to type very much.
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CaptainFantastic
07/01/09

@Colonel Mustard: Edited "sane" to "sanest of the bunch."
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naugahydeinplainsight
07/01/09

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If these folks want to see his body brought by they should watch NBC, which has repeatedly shown a helicopter shot of his shrouded corpse being gurneyed into an ambulance. Ghoulish (and not in a cute, Thriller, kind of way).
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uncivilly obedient
07/01/09

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If Michael isn't buried in the Vatican I will be very upset. I doubt Pope John Paul's death got this much attention.

The only other thing that is bothering me is that Michelangelo isn't around anymore to carve his tomb. We all know how much Michael would have appreciated some of Michelangelo angles on his grave.
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HiredGoons
07/01/09

@uncivily obedient: especially if they were nubile young cherubim!
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naugahydeinplainsight
07/01/09

@uncivily obedient: The only other thing that is bothering me is that Michelangelo isn't around anymore to carve his tomb.

Then again his plastic surgeons did enough carving to last several lifetimes.
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City_Dater
07/01/09

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If these scary turista crowds are the die-hard fans likely to gather outside his door, no wonder Michael Jackson was hitting the prescription bottle. Matinee Wednesday in Times Square...on his LAWN. There isn't enough Vicodan in the world.
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Kid Twist
07/01/09

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"Look, there's Elvis!"
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HiredGoons
07/01/09

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I'd say 'give the man his dignity' but he threw whatever was left of it away himself long ago.
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Dickdogfood
03/04/09

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Is it possible that he's just delusional enough to think he's got a shot at the 2012 election?
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TVAddendum
03/04/09

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Also, one of the brilliant moves of the Bush-era noise machine was to stop referring to the "democratic" party, and start calling it the "democrat" party. I highly suggest the favor be returned, and people only refer to the "republic" party. Ahhh, resonant echoes of the "republic of china...."
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Steve Holt's Mother Part Deux
03/04/09

@TVAddendum: How about a Bush era mis-pronunciation-icle and call it the "pubic party," for short?
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vamusical
03/04/09

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Because, you know, Obama doesn't have anything better to do.
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naugahydeinplainsight
03/04/09

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Obvs the president isn't going anywhere near Rush, but will someone else? Gibbs? Emanuel? Biden? Who goes out on that Limbaugh?
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EdithHeadsChignon
03/04/09

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Mitchell!
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Perhaps Not
03/04/09

@EdithHeadsChignon: Our hero, ladies and gentlemen!
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Dave J.
03/04/09

@EdithHeadsChignon: But my varicose veins! But my hip!
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SybilDisobedience
03/04/09

@Dave J.: YAY!

HEARTS POUNDIN'!

VEINS CLOGGIN'!

MITCHELL!
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Paul_Is_Drunk
03/04/09

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I've never understood this. This is like Jordan challenging me to a 1 on 1 basketball game, then talking shit when I turned him down. Why would anyone ever face this man in his arena, saying crazy shit really loud?

It's like guests on Bill O'Reilly. I've never understood why anyone actually goes on there. The normal audience has already had it's mind made up. They've had it made up for years.

Meh. What do I know?
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Larry Fine
03/04/09

@Paul_Is_Drunk: This is nothing like Jordan challenging you to a 1 on 1 basketball game. This is like Jordan challenging you to a skins game on a golf course and having his posse stand over you on every hole yelling shit as you try to make putts. If it was an even playing field at the Limbaugh radio talk show, obviously Rush would be in deep shit because Obama is a professional debater.
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naugahydeinplainsight
03/04/09

@Paul_Is_Drunk: Well, as you may recall, candidate Obama went on O'Reilly last fall and lived to tell the tale. (But I don't think that means he goes on Rush.)
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