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Paul Is Dead Hoax

:eye-poppi I've heard of this but I've never heard that the KKK wanted him dead.
Please someone explain that to me because I am fascinated.
 
Redtail said:
:eye-poppi I've heard of this but I've never heard that the KKK wanted him dead.
Please someone explain that to me because I am fascinated.
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I heard Ringo say that the KKK wanted him (Ringo) dead because they thought he was Jewish and corrupting their children. Problem with that is that he isn't Jewish.

This was during the stupid "We're bigger than Jesus" controversy.
 
Bandersnatch said:
Ohh...Sgt. Peppers has all the proof you need. See that Guitar in flowers? It's left handed! Only Paul was left handed!
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Without seeing how a guitar is stringed it could either be left or right handed. A bizarre claim, one I hadn't heard before.

Besides which, wouldn't a left-handed bass guitar be more in the spirit (excuse the pun) of Paul being dead?

Sure, he played guitar as well, but if we're going to be specific about who died...
 
CurtC said:
...and the license plate of the VW beetle on the Abbey Road cover! That was another part of the legend I heard. Although I don't think it was a hoax, but an urban legend that started innocently and propagated on its own.
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It's sad that I can recall all this off the top of my head - put it down not to having studied the urban legend, but more that I just have a good memory for album covers...

But I believe the license plate you are talking about read "28IF", supposedly a cryptic reference to the fact that Paul would have been 28 when Abbey Road was released, IF he were still alive.
 
T.A.M. said:
How eerily VAMPIRIC of you...lol

TAM:eek:
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Mobyseven said:
* Mobyseven;2505760 beats Ex-drone over the head with a vinyl copy of Revolver...
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Ex-drone was just referring to an old urban legend. A man in a record store (I heard this one when they just sold records) overhears teenagers, and one says "Hey, look, Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings!"
 
/me beats CurtC with the original vinyl of Rubber Soul and then forces him to wear the moustache from Sgt. Peppers.

Moral of the story:​

Don't repeat the insanity. It's like quoting a crazy monk who sealed himself in a wine barrel over a century ago. Why would you do it? But people did it anyway, and now we have accounting...
 
Dr. Lao said:
Paul is dead to me since "Say Say Say"

But he was on life support after "Silly Love Songs"
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What, no mention of Mull of Kintyre??
Personally, I tend to forgive him all that and remember Eleanor Rigby, Hey Jude, Blackbird, Penny Lane, etc etc
 
Dragon said:
What, no mention of Mull of Kintyre??
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Gee, thanks a bunch. Now I have the dreadful Mull of Kintyre in my head. And it isn't easy to shake that one!

The biggest conspiracy involving The Beatles is how some of their best songs, written and sung by George Harrison, get mistaken as Lennon and/or McCartney. Something, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Taxman, and Here Comes The Sun come to mind.

I know, not really a conspiracy. (But then, everything is a conspiracy to me).
;)
 
And then there was the Phish are terrorists conspiracy, from a couple years back. Unfortunately, the Americans For War site has been taken down, but here is a quote from the article they had posted.

Phish has also sent out messages openly and covertly supportive of terrorism. In the Phish song Golgi Apparatus the band encourages violent chemical and biological attacks against American targets. The song begins with the announcement that "I look into my finance box just to check my status." This depicts the precautions taken by every terrorist cell - finding adequate funding. The lyrics next speak of entities called "Golgi" and "lysosome," cell structures which would be useful in a biological attack. Lastly, the band illustrates the outcome of the attack when it talks of spreading "woe." This "woe" refers to the effects of previous terrorist events. The song ends with the conclusion that "I couldn't get it wrong, so I had to." This should leave no doubt about their determination. They will stop at nothing to advance their aims.
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What a hoot!
 
Besides which, wouldn't a left-handed bass guitar be more in the spirit (excuse the pun) of Paul being dead?
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Ah yes, it is a bass guitar. And it's orientation is for a left handed player. I didn't even mention the mirror writing...
 
Ah, yes. Paul is dead and was replaced by a quasi-identical look-alike.

I found a website a few years back that provided "forensic evidence" that this was true, but it seems offline, now.

Along with the moon landing hoax, this is my favourite CT. It's so ridiculous, it's cute.




The REAL Paul McCartney would never be so hung on this Canadian seal nonsense.
 
Bandersnatch said:
Ah yes, it is a bass guitar. And it's orientation is for a left handed player. I didn't even mention the mirror writing...
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...?

I'm looking at the album cover presently, and while the shape may be a teensy bit ambiguous, if I had to make a bet I'd say it looks like an acoustic guitar (due to the figure-8ish shape that is very uncommon for bass guitars to have).

Also while its orientation may be for a left-handed player for the Beatles, from our position it could just as easily be a right-handed guitar. You can't tell unless you know how it has been strung - can't just pick up a guitar and play it either way!

Mirror writing?
 
Sorry for the delay, Billy Shears was trying to keep me down.

Mirror writing?
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Allow me to quote wiki's entry:
If a mirror is laid horizontally across the words "LONELY HEARTS" on the drum on the cover of Sgt. Pepper, the mirror image spells "1 ONE I X HE ^ DIE". This has been interpreted by believers in two ways.

One interpretation is that the 1, the "ONE" and the I each represent one of the Beatles, while the "X" signals that one is missing. The second interpretation is that the date of Paul's alleged death is given. In this interpretation, the "1" and "ONE" make the number 11, meaning November. The "I" and "X" are taken to represent Roman numerals making the number 9. According to this interpretation, the message is either "11th September, he died" (using the British system of writing dates) or "November 9th, he died"(In 1966 November 9th was a Wednesday, referring to how he died on a Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock) (using the American system), neither of which would fit with the theory that McCartney died during the recording of Sgt. Pepper — the album was recorded between December 1966 and April 1967. The arrow formed between "HE" and "DIE" appears to point to Paul.
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