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Tue 19 Apr, 2011 08:01 pm
Okay so today I had the blues and the blahs and I turned to Netflixs for succor and I watched "Paul Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison" because I didn't want to have to ever think again.
If you've seen this "documentary" then you know who Faul is. Faul is Fake Paul aka William Campbell.
Despite having spent the remainder of the day wishing for a Foomerang I did have time to wonder if you remembered the original "Paul is dead" bit.
I was only six when Paul "died" but I still remember all the P.I.D. stuff that floated around for years.
How does a rumor become so ingrained and persistent that nearly 50 years later they're making a documentary about it and that there are several websites insisting that it is absolutely true?
Any theories, conspiracy or otherwise, appreciated!
I got nothing. But I do remember when it all started.
@edgarblythe,
Did you think Paul was dead?
@boomerang,
WHO the hell is FAUL? where the hell was I when thois was going on?
I can recite all the Phillies pitchers back to the 50's buit I dont lknow **** about the Phuckin Beatles. Is this a babe thing?
@boomerang,
I might be able to tell you if I print out your post and hold it up to a mirror to read the hidden message that is written when viewed backwards.
Yes, I was one of those who wore out my record trying to hear the hidden message from Paul that everyone said was there when it was played backwards.
It was a rumor that turned into a great marketing ploy.
No idea who or what this is about.
Interesting how just because you aware of something you assume the majority of people are too.
Kinda like commonsense.
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:
WHO the hell is FAUL? where the hell was I when thois was going on?
I can recite all the Phillies pitchers back to the 50's buit I dont lknow **** about the Phuckin Beatles. Is this a babe thing?
Thousand times ditto
farmerman. Not the Phillies pitcher thing but the first section sentiment.
@boomerang,
boomerang wrote:
Did you think Paul was dead?
I was alerted early on it was a hoax. But, my friend, whatsisname, played the record backwards and tried to solve the mystery.
@Butrflynet,
Years ago I took a sacred oath that I would only say this on the rare occasion that it was actually true. You, my friend, have earned one of the few I've ever given out.
Quote:I might be able to tell you if I print out your post and hold it up to a mirror to read the hidden message that is written when viewed backwards.
To this I say:
LOL!!
@dadpad,
Sorry dadpad.
Until today I could not have told you who Faul was either.
It seems that in 1966 Paul McCartney (of the Beatles fame) was killed in a car crash -- decapitated, no less. The remainder of the Beatles were called to the crash site where the British secret service types stole them away to hatch a plot to create a double for Paul to keep the young women of the world from committing suicide in their despair over Paul's death.
The double was a man named William Campbell, who gave up his life in service to the Beatles.
The Beatles in turn left a mazillion, billion clues trying to let people know that the "real Paul" was dead and that there was now a "Fake Paul" aka Faul.
It was the craziest damn "documentary" that I've ever seen.
But kind of fun.
I paid attention to the Beatles because my mom used to threaten to run off and marry Ringo if we didn't behave ourselves. We'd cry and beg -- like having a Beatle as a step dad would be the worst thing in the entire world.
I did meet George Harrison for a shiny and golden 120 seconds back in the 70s.
I didn't ask him about Faul but it was still special.
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.
Mister City Policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.
Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I'm crying.
Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.
Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo... (etc.)
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Joe(pass the lighter, this hash has gone out)Nation
there's a great conspiracy radio show called A View From Space that has run several shows on the Paul conspiracy and it's ties with the Illuminati, really funny stuff
Do you have any idea how many people would have had to be involved and keep their mouth shut to carry this off? The other Beatles, James McCartney, Mike McCartney, George Martin, Brian Epstein, Neil Aspinal, Peter Brown, Astrid Kirchherr, Gerry and the Pacemakers, etc, etc. The idea is preposterous.