Madeleine McCann: With Columnist Peter McKay
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE COLUMNISTS
PETER McKAY (Mail):
MOST sightings of missing Madeleine McCann seem to involve Belgium and a paedophile ‘ring’ which might have kidnapped the child ‘to order’. Belgian police received more than 100 sightings, 30 of which required checking.
Do they?
But the latest - by British businessman Trevor Francis, 64 - was on the Venezuelan island of Margarita. Nursing home owner Francis, who keeps a yacht there, says a girl he thinks was ‘Madeleine’ came into a restaurant with three women - all of Latin origin - and had the telltale blemish in her right eye.
He did.
In one sighting, the girl involved said she was ‘Maddie’ and had been taken from her mother. Yet the McCanns say Madeleine was never known as ‘Maddie’ to them. It’s an abbreviation devised by newspapers so the name will fit headlines.
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August 11th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Coco, happy and honoured you accept me on board. I’m going to have an early and wonderful night now, dreaming about what can be done for eduction, culture, audiovisual and, especially, MEDIA !
Good night
August 11th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Cheryl annd Maria live in another world.
But one that pays quite well.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Good evening.
Wtf…Hello..xxxx Long time no see.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
chenier Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Actually, I think I would settle for a few inexpensive nukes, rather than the piecemeal approach; remember we don’t want to destroy the economy.
I might agree to a negotiated cease fire, provided, of course, people don’t mess with us.
Besides, the M&A can be a bit pompous and lacking in humour on the whole genocide bit, and I for one would not wish to push my luck.
Particularly not with Miss High and Mighty…
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Careful c——r, don’t attack the mods, you may incur the wrath of agw.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Cheryl says:
Garth - how about you, Gandolf and I play the good guy- bad guy strategy the police use with people? You two keeping rattling their chains, I so love Gandolf’s ‘expressive’ descriptions, and I’ll try being nice and use logic with them?
CHERYL….
and your chums..is it just
a game to you?? (Maria the main game player of course)
August 11th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
What is the subtle difference between a Troll and someone who does not share your viewpoint?
M&A
Artemis
A sense of humour.
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Except that everybody thinks they’ve got a really good sense of humour. And most people are wrong.
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M&A
Artemis
But then most people are wrong on most things.
And as I recall, the definition of a troll was promulgated some years ago on the old usenet. Though, of course, if you wish to rehash it for the zillionth time, do carry on.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
coco
May i be in charge of the refreshments
August 11th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
COCO
Fellow cabinet ministers, i bid you goodnight, and may our new party reign for a thousand years.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Actually, I think I would settle for a few inexpensive nukes, rather than the piecemeal approach; remember we don’t want to destroy the economy.
I might agree to a negotiated cease fire, provided, of course, people don’t mess with us.
Besides, the M&A can be a bit pompous and lacking in humour on the whole genocide bit, and I for one would not wish to push my luck.
Particularly not with Miss High and Mighty…
August 11th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Is the media being selective and only running stories from the files that support Mccanns version/abduction theories no matter how flimsy or outlandish the lead?
Out of all that information it is hard to believe that they were made suspects out of thin air and that no evidence whatsoever exists to justify that decision.
I accept that they are no longer suspects but surely less biased reporting would inspire public confidence more than the sort of stuff we are being asked to believe.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Coco, I’m afraid I have a confession to make, I am not posh.
Can I be the ” Council House Boy Made good” on your Cabinet?
If it is any help, I can write with a North East accent.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Well there you go on front page of one of the tabloids !!!!
I SOLD MADELIENE AN ICE CREAM
in Brussels, knew it, knew it. knew it !!!!!!
August 11th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
What is the subtle difference between a Troll and someone who does not share your viewpoint?
M&A
Artemis
A sense of humour.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Saul Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Coco, can I be Minister for “Sussing out the Ble*ding obvious” please? I promise to always use * where applicable.
SAUL …….. I would be honoured to have you on the team! We may have to curtail the swearing because we will be sitting down to dinner with people like Sarkozy and his wife - and I don’t want to offend them.
Châtelaine Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
I see that also non-UK-residents can join you cabinet, Coco. Would it be asked too much to be responsible for Education, Culture and Audiovisual???? I can send you my C.V.
CHATELAINE ….. May I say that I am overwhelmed! Couse you can!
KITTENS OF THE COMMENTARIAT!!! HEAR YE! HEAR YE! TONIGHT HISTORY IS BEING MADE!
The Commentariat is on the way to taking over the World!
TODAY ANORAK! SHORTLY - THE WORLD!
……………….
Gordon Brown has just been on the phone - no kidding - honestly.
Wants me to stop fucking about on here and wants to hold me close in a Stalinesque kind of way and give me a job!
I told him the same as I told the Times and the Telegraph! No!
August 11th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
CHENIER
You know i am not greedy, we can both warmonger !!! i want to do most of the torturing myself though, you can do the strategy.
mrs B is up for smelling them out and pointing the fingure at the wretches, as we speak she has sent the poorfolk out to collect wood for burning them at the stake, remind me tomorrow about the profitable marketing of religous relics. lot of money to be made folding money.
also we have to establish a shrine !!! Better than finding oil, i tell you.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Maravilha Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
c
****
Don’t be shy, Maravilha. Let it out …
August 11th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
I see that also non-UK-residents can join you cabinet, Coco. Would it be asked too much to be responsible for Education, Culture and Audiovisual???? I can send you my C.V.
Coco: and Media, of course …!
August 11th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Saul Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I expect they have all gone to polish their shiny exhausts………Bonnevilles of course
Fucked off coz they can’t stand the heat.
Is a Bonneville a hair-dryer lol! Bit of a moped?
CHENIER - You can be a Minister of War as well, Honey. We will need many of them!
Mainly to do with the air-heads on this site!
In fact I declare war tonight against all the Witless Ones that make no contribution to this site!
We need more people like Cheryl though - to keep us balanced - but as for the Trollies - I hope they develop piles, warts and wake up paralysed and festering in their own piss! lol
August 11th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
I see that also non-UK-residents can join you cabinet, Coco. Would it be asked too much to be responsible for Education, Culture and Audiovisual???? I can send you my C.V.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
COCO
I will share willingly there will not be a single fuck, half, whole or even slightly fucked left to foul up any decent sites visited by the talented people who do comment here.
they are continuosly being dirupted by said fuckwits and morons real or those pretending to be halfwitted, sly little bastards. esses. pretending to be posh.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Coco, can I be Minister for “Sussing out the Ble*ding obvious” please? I promise to always use * where applicable.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
BOUNTYHUNTER! COMUNIACTION is the new Black !!!!
Correct amusimus! Amusimus is a Cocoism for ‘Bang on! Baby!’
August 11th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
c
August 11th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Bounty hunter
I must confess that I had hoped to be Minister of War, but should Coco proffer me a place in her Cabinet I would, of course, be honoured to accept.
Provided the money is right…
August 11th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
BOUNTYHUNTER! ‘Can i be Minister of defence and warmongering too?’
I have been desperately trying to think about who to put in the Ministry of Warmongery!!!
It’s yours! However - I may want to help out here - if that’s OK?
Just setting up the ‘Ministry for Sad Bastards; Lack of Intellect; Misreading; Misunderstanding and General Fucking Arse-Wipes ‘ and Gailen posted to me!!!
So I was right! We definitely need a Ministry for this - to keep them off sites like this! lol
August 11th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
COCO
!!
COMUNIACTION is the new Black !!!!
August 11th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
CHENIER
How are you ? long time no see.
Coco must make you the minister of Law, i insist.
have the Fss reports re Dna surfaced yet ? Have you any idea how far translations are by honourable people not gutter press.
Bought Mrs B a dell spring green ? she will not let me touch it, so far.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
We live in a free world, they can all polish their shiny exhausts as fast as they want to.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Communiaction is a new word that I have just invented - please feel free to use it against certain posters to make them feel unloved, ostracised and out of place lol.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
so if the towel had been used to dry off the twins not maddie the tracker dogs would be following the path the twins took in the …………it may explain the round the houses route stopping at the beach.
5 days for a kids towel ….kids are dirty little things mine get through loads of towels every week 5 a week is closer than 1 every 5 days
lets hope G & K never made a mistake with which towel they gave the police or it could have really put the dogs off the scent.