>>>Never mind the front page. The Toronto Star had page after page dedicated to him. For Pete's sake, the guy was just a rock singer with a lot of major personal issues. He was not the "Second Coming".
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>>Personally, since losing Elvis and Princess Di (she was The People's Princess you know) this third Cataclysmic Event makes me think we are in the End Times.
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>>My only comfort is that soon I will be able to go to the flea market and buy a black velvet triptych showing this Holy Trinity together.
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>I'd rather have a single black velvet painting showing the three of them playing poker.
Actually I have that one - but the game also includes a couple dogs and a weeping clown.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
