Madeleine McCann: McCann Incorporated, McCann Ink And Going Back To Portugal
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SUNDAY MIRROR: “Tapas 7 in despair at all the ‘lies’”
They say they are also called the Tapas Nine? And the Sangria Seven
“The Tapas Seven are “in meltdown” over the failure of Portuguese police to make any meaningful progress in the hunt for Madeleine”
“IT’S OUR D-DAY - McCanns return to Portugal - EXCLUSIVE Kate and Gerry set date in April for Algarve showdown They’ll tell cops: show your evidence or clear us for good”. Like that D-Day back on November?
“Despairing Kate and Gerry McCann are planning to return to Portugal for a face-to-face showdown with police who think they killed their daughter Madeleine”
They are going back. Now..?
Well, not exactly: “A close friend said the the couple were likely to go back after their ‘D-Day’ of April 11, when their three-month extension is up, and added: ‘They feel they’ve waited long enough with this cloud of suspicion hanging over them. They know their return would be very high-profile. They believe investigators do not have the evidence against them to bring charges, and their presence in Portugal would embarrass them. They’ve so far held off going back there, but they see it as their trump card”
They will go back once they have been allowed to see the police first on them
Says the paper’s source: “They see April 11 as their D-day. They have decided to give the police reasonable time to clear them, or at least open the case files so they can see the evidence against them”
That’s good of them…
FIONA Philips, of GMTV writes: “Have a heart”. Yes, that Fiona Philips
“Unbelievably, every time I write about the McCanns I get messages saying, ‘I used to like you, until you started supporting the McCanns.’ Nice, eh? So I hope you’re happy now that Kate and Gerry have blamed themselves for Madeleine’s disappearance”
Happy?
“In a list of ‘if onlys’, Gerry said: ‘I wish I’d stayed in the apartment that night.’ Now, I expect more bile on praising them for considering making a documentary on the case. Surely you can’t tell me that there’s a parent out there who wouldn’t do anything possible to find their missing child?”
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “’We pray she’ll be at party for twins’”
“Brave Kate McCann is planning a huge birthday party for her twins - and dreams missing Maddie will be there too. Kate, 39, has vowed to go ahead with the bash for Sean and Amelie even though she is still waiting for cops to quiz her again. Mother-in-law Eileen said: ‘The party’s on and it will be an even bigger one if wee Madeleine is back. All we can do is hope and pray.’ Sean and Amelie turn three on February”
Touching stuff. Gerry McCann is a “heart specialist”
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “Madeleine: No film will be made unless she’s found - alive or dead”
“Kate and Gerry McCann have been told that the proposed documentary about their daughter’s disappearance can go ahead only if she is found – alive or dead.
A source says: “It was awkward to raise but there would need to be an ending – either Madeleine being found alive or a body being discovered. If this wasn’t the case, and there was a major development after filming and editing, it could render the documentary redundant”
Or the parents or some other person or persons are charged, perhaps?
THE OBSERVER: “A good week for … a bad week for …”
“A bad week for …
“Tradition – A Lib Dem MP called Lynne Featherstone has made a bid for the limelight by reporting the monarchy to the Equality Commission because it goes in for primogeniture”
“Marcus Agius The chairman of Barclay’s was the target of £10,000 fraud”
“Good Taste - Or indeed any taste at all. A London based agency which supplies celebrity doubles has employed a small girl to rent out as Madeleine McCann. 20 per cent”
It was a “good weeks for… Washing up”
“THE Maddie story is already a soap opera, so why the moral panic over a movie? - Don’t get me wrong - nobody wants to see Maddie: The Musical. However, needs must if the McCanns want to continue trying to find out what happened to their daughter and they do, despite the devastating expense (their somewhat unproductive detective agency alone costs £50,000 a month) and the increasingly shabby odds.”
Maddie: The Musical, eh..?
THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT: “Strange case of the detectives trying to trace Madeleine”
“After a week when commercials deals were more apparent than clues, we investigate the investigators”. Why not investigate the case?
“Just when the Madeleine McCann saga couldn’t get any more agonising, along came a raft of developments last week that began to achieve what you would hope would be impossible: turning a little missing girl into an industry – Madeleine Inc. Item: a London agency hawking around various small girls as Madeleine lookalikes. Item: US television bringing a team of psychics to bear on the disappearance as part of what they no doubt hoped would be a money-spinner of a show. Item: her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, exploring the possibility of selling the book and film rights to the case”
Madeleine became a brand long ago. Brand McCann…
“Madeleine Inc bring benefits to some, but not, so far, to the girl herself or her distraught parents”
Or Madeleine Ink – see the press
THE SUNDAY TIMES: Ron Liddle writes:
“So, get yourself ready for Maddie – The Movie (PG, until you fancy nipping out for something to eat). Kate and Gerry McCann’s press spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, has confirmed that the couple met with representatives from the US entertainment company IMG before Christmas and that while nothing was agreed, the meeting had been ‘positive’. A day later Gerry McCann hastily backtracked and said no, no, they weren’t planning a movie. Who to believe? And which British actors will Hollywood cast as the parents if there is a film? Sacha Baron Cohen and Catherine Tate? Am I bovvered? Look at my face – is it bovvered? And maybe Matt Lucas as the shady-looking Robert Murat? Norman Wisdom as the Portuguese chief of police?”
Madeleine McCann: Fiction, faction and a single unbearable fact
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January 14th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Totje
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Did you save the link for the :P:
I lost mine
January 14th, 2008 at 12:34 am
914 Miss Match Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Veritablequandary - of course you can come!! Are you sure you want to take a vacation with a bundleman look alike though?
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would be useful in scenario building . . . . and wait until you see me!
January 14th, 2008 at 12:33 am
RedRooster is a HE ?????????? :shocked:
January 14th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Veritablequandary - of course you can come!! Are you sure you want to take a vacation with a bundleman look alike though?
January 14th, 2008 at 12:32 am
911 Totje Says:
Don’t you think we could get a discount?
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it’s about numbers?
is there a travel agent among us?
January 14th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Totje - a vacation sounds wonderful!!! OC at PdL sounds like a perfect location. Must admit, I am a little nervous though as I do look like bundleman, but with longer hair. Not had Metodo3 knocking on the door yet, but have a rock solid alibi for all of May as I was 6000 miles away, thank goodness.
Not sure where my ’swarthy’ looks came from, but despite being English, I am definitely no English rose!!!
I suppose I could go to Kate McCann’s hairdresser and get some highlights ,which would make me look less like bundleman, and we could safely carry out our experiment.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:28 am
909
veritablequandary,
Of course. The more the merrier, isn’t it?
Don’t you think we could get a discount?
January 14th, 2008 at 12:24 am
903
Scarlett Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 12:19 am
good nite everyone
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nite nite
January 14th, 2008 at 12:23 am
907 Totje Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 12:21 am
902
Miss Match,
I think I need a vacantion. Don’t you think we could meet in PdL at the OC to rehearse the experiment?
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Can I come too? A vacantion is just what I need.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Scarlett,
Nice to have you on board again. You were before my time.
Hope you see this message before lights out.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:21 am
902
Miss Match,
I think I need a vacantion. Don’t you think we could meet in PdL at the OC to rehearse the experiment?
January 14th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Nite nite Scarlett
January 14th, 2008 at 12:19 am
898
veritablequandary Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 12:16 am
889 RedRooster Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 12:08 am
is there any chance you could add a picture of a baffoon for the likes of Sledgehammer please
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Finally have an excuse to save PMSL!
Aplogies for suggesting you be locked up for the night.
(where I live coyotes eat chickens, so it was not so much an insult)
A puny coyote is no match for you, RR.
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January 14th, 2008 at 12:19 am
890 Scarlett
January 14th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Veritablequandary 832
I know it’s a pain going through the archives, but take a look at this forum 10.45pm-11.45pm 18 November 07. Worthwhile.
I wonder whether DW saw Maddy at all on 3 May. Feasible she didn’t if Dw was on a day trip and joined everyone at the Tapas bar in the evening.
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promise to look, thanks for making the task easy!
January 14th, 2008 at 12:19 am
good nite everyone
January 14th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Totje - Ohhhh, the shutter experiment!!!! Mr M, (also alseep on the sofa, not snoring yet), still thinks I am bonkers, but now understands that I was not deliberately trying to wreck our shutters and was doing VERY IMPORTANT detective work.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:18 am
888 annie1 Says: January 14th, 2008 at 12:07 am
The Fund is a private Limited Comapany - not a charity. So, as a Company surely it should be accountable to its “customers” which in this case is everyone who gave money to it to provide the service it advertised - which was to find Madeleine. Edit….
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It’s late and I’m tired (my problem), posters like chenier and Will seem very good on the exact legalities of the Limited Company known colloquially as “The Fund”.
In essence I understand that because it is a private Limited Company the directors can pretty much decided as it suits them what the purpose of the company is. i.e. There actually isn’t anything illegal in what they are doing/have done. Some of us may be of the view that this is immoral/misleading, but unfortunately that has no impact in law.
I’ve probably got the “words” wrong, but I believe the “principle” I’ve tried to explain is correct.
Actually, I think Tony Bennett is very good on this stuff too. Perhaps if he’s still about he could explain properly!
January 14th, 2008 at 12:17 am
894
can’t say no Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 12:09 am
RR & lazycow
for both
here
http://www.tesora.com.au/images/products/bullshit-alert-button-l.jpg
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hey i like that, has old sledgy been awarded it many times ???
January 14th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Rosemary 835
I’m unable to find Red’s post just now, but I think it was something to do with the road from Lagos to Seville and it also said Soothsayer might be a priest. Can’t see it, somehow.
Though our names have some similarity, I am not Red.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:16 am
889 RedRooster Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 12:08 am
is there any chance you could add a picture of a baffoon for the likes of Sledgehammer please
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Finally have an excuse to save PMSL!
Aplogies for suggesting you be locked up for the night.
(where I live coyotes eat chickens, so it was not so much an insult)
A puny coyote is no match for you, RR.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:15 am
891
Miss Match Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 12:09 am
RedRooster - can I join you all too? I’m a little ruffled after nearly setting the kitchen on fire and could do with a glass of red
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the more the merrier my little feathered friend
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893
veritablequandary Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 12:09 am
886
Carmen Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 12:07 am
June Johnson
Don’t want to argue you with you Mods and Admin, but you might remember that Rooster spent some time in the special moderation coop we devised for him, lost a few feathers and came back a new foul….. That was before the card system, and he has just invited us for a drink, so no grudges……………could you swig mine for me, I want to go to bed?
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Dissention in the ranks?
I say lock up rr for the night, for his own good
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erm lock me up hey - thats probably not a bad idea, but please dont take my wine away
wheres garfy by the way ???
January 14th, 2008 at 12:12 am
I think yellow should be called lemon-ade, giving credit where due.
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M and A
Oh gods have we to think of a witty one now too?\—
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yes it is a high hurdle indeed
January 14th, 2008 at 12:10 am
883
Miss Match,
Hi, I’m fine thank you. Cooked a meal, way to much for us. Neighbours are redecorating their house, no kitchen nor wall [inside] left. So we invited them to come over to our place to have dinner. They’ve left, MrT is snoring, puppy is sleeping, cats also, I’ve got wine, a fire and music. So I’m happy.
Loved the experiment with the shutters really
January 14th, 2008 at 12:09 am
RR & lazycow
for both
here
http://www.tesora.com.au/images/products/bullshit-alert-button-l.jpg
January 14th, 2008 at 12:09 am
886
Carmen Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 12:07 am
June Johnson
Don’t want to argue you with you Mods and Admin, but you might remember that Rooster spent some time in the special moderation coop we devised for him, lost a few feathers and came back a new foul….. That was before the card system, and he has just invited us for a drink, so no grudges……………could you swig mine for me, I want to go to bed?
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Dissention in the ranks?
I say lock up rr for the night, for his own good.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:09 am
874 Peter O:
Thank you, I confirm that this is the first time that I have seen this warning about the ‘81 Lies’ posting I made a few days ago. I’ll reproduce it again for all to see. I’ve probably paid tribute in writing to Mods and Admin and Anorak for running this forum more times than anyone else - and am happy to abide by any rules and conventions relating to this Forum. I specifically headed my origianl posting: ‘81 Lies - *Allegedly*’. I am not aware of ever previously having been ‘pulled up’ by Mods and Admin for anything. This was the message from the Administrator:
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Administrator: This edited version of the second attempt to place this posting from another Forum is all I’m prepared to accept. It was not posted to this Forum and we are not concerned with or will allow second-hand torts. With your disciplines (which I should point out are close to mine) you should know better. This has been discussed off Forum and the view is this: if this sort of posting is repeated there is a risk of a very serious falling out between us. I know who would have the upper hand here. You have several valuable points to make in most contributions. I should not like you to self-destruct. However, (isn’t there always at least one?) be clear, I will not hesitate to act if anything like this is posted again. The Moderators will take swift and permanent action if need be.- agw
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January 14th, 2008 at 12:09 am
RedRooster - can I join you all too? I’m a little ruffled after nearly setting the kitchen on fire and could do with a glass of red.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Veritablequandary 832
I know it’s a pain going through the archives, but take a look at this forum 10.45pm-11.45pm 18 November 07. Worthwhile.
I wonder whether DW saw Maddy at all on 3 May. Feasible she didn’t if Dw was on a day trip and joined everyone at the Tapas bar in the evening.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:08 am
881
JuneJohnson Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Mods and Admin
Yellow card
Red card
Anorak hat
Bullshit button
the yellow card which is now a lemon, Ade thought that up, comes first,lasts a couple of days, its justa warning, the red card which is a traffic light for now, (was looking for a baboons bum , but nothing red enough) is a day in the Chill room. The Anorak hat is for people who really are goaded beyond reason and keep their cool, we devised that yesterday. The bullshit button is from CSN and is for anyone to use if a post is utter crap.
You’ve managed to avoid them so far Red Rooster
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is there any chance you could add a picture of a baffoon for the likes of Sledgehammer please
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Try and find one, leave a link,needs a bright red bum, just saw one which was pinkish well puce even
Anyway Cheers all am off to beddybyes - had a half bottle of Barolo earlier, very tiring
January 14th, 2008 at 12:07 am
The Fund is a private Limited Comapany - not a charity. So, as a Company surely it should be accountable to its “customers” which in this case is everyone who gave money to it to provide the service it advertised - which was to find Madeleine. If she is not found by the “fund” then the service for which the people paid for in good faith is not being produced. So maybe trading standards can intervene and ask why a “Company” advertised that with money it would “find Madeleine” and 8 months down the line - has not produced the “goods” advertised. In my opinion it was an ill thought out move. Can a Private Limited Company become bankrupt? If everyone who paid into it thinking that they were paying to help find a little girl and the money ends up being used to pay the parents mortgage and whatever else - then I think that anyone who donated could demand a refund - money paid - goods not delivered. If enough demands for refunds were made and not enough money was left to pay the private investigators, I wonder if they would bankrupt the fund?