Arguido And Halo: Learning To Speak Madeleine McCann
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY MAIL: “Nomophobic, stagflation, funt… and even cripes: Some of the 100 or so ‘Words of the Year’”
This is the year of the credit crunch, the nonebrity and glamping. 2008 has given the English language more than 100 new words and phrases which capture modern life, according to experts.
Or Nodding Heads, as Anorak calls them. Go on:
The list compiled by dictionary expert Susie Dent … the nonebrity form TV’s Countdown
Current events are also reflected in the list, including arguido - the Portuguese word for suspect - after the Portuguese police named Kate and Gerry McCann as official suspects in their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance, only to clear them ten months later.
Madeleine McCann has her own language now; and it’s now our language, too.
How does the arguido/arguida/arguidos/arguidamos/arguidatos/arguidant plead? It’s good for the Beak to keep up with the changing times…
DAILY STAR: “MCCANNS’ ANGER AT MADDIE VIDEO GAME”
Well, not a Maddie video game, more of a game in which the name Maddie features.
Says Clarence Mitchell:
“If this was an intentional reference to Madeleine it was clearly in extremely poor taste. We would urge the company to rectify it immediately.”
But if it keeps her name in the public eye…
Madeleine McCann’s Halo 3: Selling Video Games And Making Jokes
Madeleine McCann: Irvine Welsh, French T-Shirts And A Halo
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October 3rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Karen Says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:39 am
Cheryl
We weren’t there.
We have no idea if she was kidnapped, murdered by one of the Tapas 9, died in an accident that was covered up, or wandered off and fell into the sea…
That’s why we’re all still chattering about it.
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I know, Karen, that is why I’m saying this could just go unsolved. I’m not sure any of the Tapas 9 know anything . The emotional pressures have been horrible on them over the past year or so with publicity, police interviews and I just think someone would have broken down by now if they knew anything and talked. If someone who preyed on small children did this they keep their activities to themselves. BUT over here we have cases where once one is caught they’ll tell the police about their other victims. I was watching a TV show months ago where they were interviewing those creeps who were in jail and one had admitted to having over 13 or more victims before he was finally caught. Man in his 20’s sitting on death row and said he wanted to be put to death as he’d never stop he got back out.
Whatever, I still feel for the parents very much I guess because I am a mother. They have to live with the guilt the rest of their lives because of that stupid and reckless act of neglect their daughter is missing.
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:24 am
Still no Weirdies with their tuppence-worth!
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:10 am
Karen! Hi! If you are still hanging about - would you let me know if your last post went straight through - or did the little thing in the corner keep whirring around for ages? I also got a message saying that I had just duplicated my post!?
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:08 am
But what about the dogs barking their bollocks off and finding errrrrrr ……… things in cupboards?
The doggies are not to be dismissed and will not be dismissed.
A very British copper says the same - and he was on the spot in PDL!
If M’s body is not the source of the cadaverine scent - then who else’s cadaverinous scent is wafting about willy-nilly in the apartment???
This sort of scent is only found in hospitals and morgues or at any other place where a body has been allowed to reside for more than a couple of hours at a time! Say for instance - a murder scene on the streets of Uganda or a little-used alley off a main street.
So who or how many dead bodies have been hanging around in that flat???????????????????????????????
Let is not kid ourselves here those doggies were off on one as soon as they opened the bloody door for them!!!
They were normal every day dogs as they arrived at the apartment until the door was opened for them - and then they suddenly turned into policemen! Went straight for what they could smell - and then Bob’s your Uncle and Fanny’s your Aunt!
A dead body or part of a dead body got the doggies attention and they stood by their decisions.
Now - if the dogs had the courage of their own convictions and stood by the smells and the dog-handlers believed them - what the fucking Hell got into the judicial system shortly after that to treat Amaral like an idiot and extract him from the case???
So he had a bit of a blast because he was being undermined and wronged. This guy was becoming more and more purple with frustration as the weeks went by! Why was he not forgiven this very minor loss of control????????????
There is something very, very wrong at State level! Something very wrong indeed - which undermines the democracy of Western Europe as a whole.
I have counted five or six resignations and movements of Embassy staff without my even being arsed to check out the true figures and the true extent of these manipulated events.
It’s great that Baby Blair is standing down this week - just in the nick of time!
He couldn’t do right for doing wrong really - in the grand scheme of things.
If he had buggered off before the the disastrous Tube shooting case opened - somebody would have wanted his knackers on the block last week - but now - he can hold onto his knackers for a little while longer! lol
Talking of knacker-squeezing - where on Earth have all our Weirdy Men got off to???
Only one rasping, wheezing parent-sanctifier to be found recently. No Spongey-Bob the Boob or Stinky Man nor any Garseholey type things!
Even their Hanger-On Hags haven’t even been haggering half the amount they used to do either.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:39 am
Cheryl
We weren’t there.
We have no idea if she was kidnapped, murdered by one of the Tapas 9, died in an accident that was covered up, or wandered off and fell into the sea…
That’s why we’re all still chattering about it.
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:18 am
jo Says:
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Cheryl
They are guilty
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Yes, Jo, they are guilty of Neglect and they will carry that guilt within the rest of their living days. Yes if she and the twins had not been left alone this may never have happened. Whether she was abducted or kidnapped from the room or wandered outside and someone took the opportunity and abducted her then; but she DID NOT just disappear into thin air and thus ceased to exist - that just doesn’t happen!
Jo, this case can unsolved for many, many years and may be forever or until whoever knows what happened to her confesses or sends a letter to the newspapers or police telling where she or her remains can be found.
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 am
Where is Garth?
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:22 am
A news paper is commenting today that the McCanns slept separately the night before the disappearence.
What do we have to do with that? It is not of our business.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Night Jo x
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:09 pm
PeterMac
Amazing finding
Haigh was severely disturbed gee….
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Lone
If you cant see the bump from the back then its a boy!!! or so they say
Joy ahead
Your son does live on Mars! if he believes it then he does thats how we are at 5 years old,its a marvellous age
Good luck with the nesting
I am wishing you all a very good night with shutters downs and doors locked up
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Jo
EDIT “Anyhow I just found this article
Thursday, 2 October 2008
SOS Madeleine McCann 2/10/08 - Clarence Mitchell a guest speaker for the Society of British Editors.
“…..In the case of Madleine’s disappearance, the McCanns’ spokesmen and lawyers have maintained regular contact with editors and directors of the major British newspapers. On September 12th 2007, after Kate and Gerry McCann were officially constituted as arguidos, Justine McGuiness, their then spokesperson, and their lawyer Angus McBride, met with several editors and directors to whom they explained that the fact that the Portuguese authorities had not found Madeleine’s body was the best proof of the couple’s innocence……”
“to whom they explained that the fact …” As in the case of the “Brides in the Bath”, Dr Haigh, who boasted “show us the body and prove that I did it.” Sir Bernard Spilsbury did just that, with a single gall stone, the last bit of the body which was resistent to the acid Haigh was using.
Haigh was hanged.
I doubt MM had gall stones.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Goodnight, wtf.
PS
How did the football go?
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Wft
The “dying” of the case was bound to happened
May be now the real investigation is going on…..?far from the media,the political scene etc….?there are evidence and evidence which have been destroyed.Not finished yet.
Cops tend to be proud and want to be right,they dont give up easily
It is all down to time
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Jo / wtf- About 9 and a half weeks to go. Bump is coming on a treat and to be honest from behind you wouldn’t even notice it. Nice and compact! mum is doing really wel and i’m very proud of her! Nursery is nearly finished. I’m now working on no.1 sons room - he is space mad at the moment. His 5 and thinks he lives on Mars!
Saul - Glad you noticed!!!
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:48 pm
goodnight all, sleep well
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
jo
I still have an interest in the case, i would love fresh evidence to come to light, but each day it gets less and less sadly
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:42 pm
clouseau
Berwick upon tweed, do you know it?
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Saul Says:
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Lone, you cheeky monkey……..
****
Yeah …..
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 pm
I think I will be able to sustain my interest [aka passion] for the sake of this little girl for a long time. What was it again that her father said? Ah yes: ““We want a big event to raise awareness that she is still missing (…) It wouldn’t be a one-year anniversary, it will be sooner than that” (June 3, 2007) - “I have no doubt we will be able to sustain a high profile for Madeleines disappearance in the long term.” (June 28, 2007)
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is ‘never try’
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Lone you”ve been hatching?
When are the little feathers coming?
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:29 pm
wtf
where in Northumberland? Rothbury me
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Wtf,Lone
It has to come down to almost…nothing but still,the case is/will never be closed as such….as long as a death certificate is issued,Madeleine is a missing person
Impossible to closed the case definitively at the moment because the cops know there will be a break through like in most criminal investigations.It may take years and the only people who will sustain dedication and attention are the very same cops who have been slaughtered by the mccanns and the media
Amaral will write his 2d book soon….when he has finished with the first 2 “round”…
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Lone, you cheeky monkey……..
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
lone
I agree, not much to talk about really, just the same old, same old. How is your other half and the bump, you must both be getting excited now
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
i’m not sure wtf - I know i’ve been busy on the other threads, Really been enjoying myself on them as it’s been a nice diversion from the Madeleine story plus you don’t get the usual abuse that you come to expect on here. I’ve got my own back though and hardly a soul knows! I will always look in here though. I think the story is coming to a close as everyone pretty much predicted it would sadly but you never know….
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
yampster
i see, typical when i decide to dip in my toe
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Justice waits for the EUFA Cup
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:04 pm
lone, hello
where is everyone?
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:03 pm
sort of but not for long - just looking in randomly