QuoteI saw it for the first time at the Pats game and we haven't had a home game since then.Originally Posted by NY Hoop
Do whatever you can to amuse yourself. You're obviously from the country to use that moniker.
Anyway away from ignorant fans who dont even know their rivals' names a boez fan tells me that the aforementioned poster is at every one of their home games????
KOH
I saw it for the first time at the Pats game and we haven't had a home game since then.
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Nice try Shamrock fan
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Well spotted SPA.
Nice try Shamrock fan
KOH
Just for the record I am not the club. I am, of course, a SPA fan.
Now, back on topic. Can anyone tell me if there have been any developments at all in the last 3 weeks?
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A DNA sample was found in the apartment which did not match any of the McCann's at the beginning of the month.
Some Dutch newspaper received a letter stating where her body was buried but after a search of that area it was abandoned.
Got the dutch 'paper thing.
Didn't hear the DNA bit
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It was a rented appartment was it not? I'd be surprised if there wasn't a plethora of DNA samples to be found in it.
The letter to the dutch newspaper was apparently one of several from "empaths", "seers", "seventh sons" and a host of other assorted chancers looking to make a buck and a rep for themselves out of their "gift" or from somone elses misery.
That there hasn't been a whole lot more of them is probably down to the Portugese cops saying that anyone profering such information will, quite rightly I think, be treated as a suspect until eveidence rules them out.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Here's the article which says that it was DNA of a sixth person, so only six samples were found allegedly.
He wasn't a scouser, he was a National Front infiltrator...
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
POTM!
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Correct, have been for the past 15 years but I am a Liverpudlian. For the record, Bohs are the last team on the planet I would go and see.
This DNA story is silly. Imagine the amount of people who have visited that apartment over the past 6 months. I presumed she was abducted?? outside the apartment anyway.
So you hate us more than you hate Everton and Man U?
Is it something I said?
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No, I hate the mancs and bitter cos I was born and bred that way. Its in my blood.So you hate us more than you hate Everton and Man U?
Is it because of me?
Bohs are more annoying and are too insignificant to warrant hate.
Can we onto the main topic in the thread now?
BTW I was asking out of curiosity. It may explain why you're more attached to this story than some. I@d probably have more interest if the girl was from Dublin...
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Very true.
Somebody said to me the other night that the reason why the Irish were obsessed with Maddy McCann is the same reason the were obsessed with Holly and Jessica. - in that the most common photos of them in the Irish media they were wearing premiserships jerseys. (Chelsea and Man U) and this is to the Paddys made the crime so much more profound and meaningful. It got me thinking and maybe I am being insensitve. But if it was a photo of a chubby Irish girl wearing an Eircom League club jersey would the Paddys care as much. Would RTE and TV3 work for them as their personal PR outlets?
Lo and Behold look what's in the Onion on a similar theme and as tasteless as this is, there is a hell of a lot of truth to it as well.
Ugly Girl Killed
Nation Unshaken By Not-So-Tragic Death
CASPER, WY—The people of America remained unmoved Monday as the sparse, barely attended funeral procession of Edith Pelphrey made its way to Pinelawn Cemetery in downtown Casper.
The recent murder of clumsy, unattractive, 6-year-old Edith Pelphrey, pictured above in happier times, has not sent shockwaves of grief and despair rippling through the nation.
Edith, a homely six-year-old with thick glasses and a decidedly non-winning smile, was laid to rest largely as she had lived—unnoticed by the general population.
Discovered strangled with a length of nylon cord on Jan. 4, reported to the police Jan. 15, and finally investigated two days ago, the story of unattractive little Edith and her savage killing has failed to tug at America's heartstrings.
To the few who knew her, Edith was an unattractive, awkward little girl who failed to stand out among her first-grade classmates at Jefferson Elementary School. And it is this lack of social grace, more than anything, that makes her all-too-brief life—and its all-too-brief ending—all the more not-compelling and non-poignant in the eyes of a city and a nation.
The normally lively streets of Casper were quiet today. Not because the city was mourning a loss that had shaken it to its core, but because of the capacity crowds attending this weekend's 1997 "Li'l Miss Casper" pre-teen beauty pageant, a contest that Edith, had she lived, surely could never have entered, let alone won.
Edith's death—so sudden, so unremarkable—has not sent shockwaves of grief and despair rippling across the land.
"The American people face bold new challenges in the 21st century," President Clinton said Monday in an unrelated speech which made no mention of the incident. "We will rise to meet these challenges together."
Said Time magazine editor Richard Turner, "I want to stress that we have no intention of featuring Edith Pelphrey on the cover of Time."
"Neither will we," concurred People magazine's Kathie Holcomb. "There's just no sell."
But who was Edith? What was she going through as she neared the end? In these modern times, do we as Americans even care about such questions? The answer is clear, and it is: no, we do not. But now, after what little tears there were have long fallen, lingering questions about Edith's murder remain, failing to elicit anything beyond indifference from anyone.
"I was just going to the bookstore," said Casper resident Dan Vermeer, 24, moments after learning of Edith's death. "After that I'm supposed to meet a friend at a coffee shop."
"Hey, look at this!" a visibly agitated Rev. Geoff Noyes, of Casper's First Methodist Church, said to MaryAnn, his wife of 43 years. "They're having a sale at Safeway! Look at those tuna discounts."
These Casper residents, like millions of people across the nation, will not form any sort of activist group or mobilize to find Edith's killer; launch any sort of posthumous tribute; order any flower arrangement; or sing moving hymns in her memory. Neither, for that matter, will they ever know who she was, nor would they care to.
Why was she found strangled in her own home? There was a ransom note found with the body, but no kidnappers or, for that matter, evidence of any kidnapping at all. Could it be that the murderer was actually someone from the Pelphrey family itself? By and large, nobody could care less.
"I told you already that I have no idea what you're talking about, sir. If you keep calling here I'll have you fined," Casper chief of police Wayne Daugherty told reporters.
It's obvious that Edith, too homely to give a second thought about in life, is even less likely to attract anyone's attention now that she has been laid to eternal rest.
"I feel deeply, with every ounce of my soul, that something must be done to ensure the public that no matter what happens in the future, this night will not be forgotten, and that the Li'l Miss Casper Beauty Pageant will continue to inspire us all," Casper Mayor Roger DiNizio said, addressing an assembled crowd of 11,000.
Upon the completion of DiNizio's remarks, the pageant audience—decked out in their finest for the occasion—cheered, rising from their seats in a spontaneous standing ovation.
As a father of a four year old girl with a more than passing likeness to maddie, I disagree with the whole sky news are brainwashing us line that people on here are spewing. I dont watch sky news at all or read british red tops but there hasn't been a day goes by that I haven't thought of that little girl somewhere out there
...but on the other hand, and I genuinely don't mean to alarm you, a cousin of mine has a four year old who bears a passing likeness, just a bare passing likeness mind, to Maddie -and she's afraid to take her kid grocery shopping (or more to the point let her husband take her shopping) in case some crazed loon or other confronts them and starts screaming they've found Madeleine!
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Right on the money.
That kind of reportage, even in serious papers, of the supposed beauty or attractiveness of, say, a car crash victim with the implication that this makes the death somehow more tragic drives me nuts.
There was a road death of a young mother in a pile-up in, I think, South Dublin, a while ago that was completely tragic. Mother of a three- or four-year-old kid and all, had just dropped her to school and was off to work. Sickeningly unfortunate chain of events leading to the fatal collision; a sad, sad story that had you raging at the unfairness and feeling pretty devastated for that poor child.
But almost every single f*cking article, gilding this morbid lily, mentioned the "pretty face looking out of the picture" and even the better newspapers carried interviews with her bereaved sister who kept going on about how good-looking she was and she wanted the public to see how gorgeous she was so that they would understand how upset the family were! It was ridiculous. Her young kid was orphaned but we were meant to be sad because she was pretty.
Your man the plumber/?electrician who was shot dead because he was in the same house as that sleeping drug dealer had started up a football team out of an innocent love of sport and in an effort to try and keep the kids in his flats busy and out of trouble and, indirectly, off the very gear that the scummy likes of the other fellow were peddling onto them. That's human interest; it was harrowingly poignant. Did anybody think to themselves, "Hang on, I wonder if this young fellow was a ride? I must keep some sympathy in reserve in case he turns out to have been handsome."
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