Madeleine McCann: The Story So Far
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December 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Not as negative as the 24 pictures bollox then ?……………………………
December 1st, 2008 at 3:12 am
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Im sure they are not trying to con us two years in a row. Im sure if they had anything to do with her disappearance they still wouldnt be bringing attention to themselves.
December 1st, 2008 at 12:29 am
Montaillou Says:
December 1st, 2008 at 12:12 am
It’s all right GF, with a bit of luck SteveT will upstage the McCs by getting his hands on a gullible sporting hero first (see abvove). It had to come - perhaps they’ll wangle their way into HRH’s slot broadcasting ot the nation?
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It is said to be a worldwide broadcast WTF. European papers are printing a lot more facts about this case than the UK press.
Most sensible people of Europe will know exactly what this is about IMO.
funds funds funds…………
December 1st, 2008 at 12:12 am
It’s all right GF, with a bit of luck SteveT will upstage the McCs by getting his hands on a gullible sporting hero first (see abvove). It had to come - perhaps they’ll wangle their way into HRH’s slot broadcasting ot the nation?
November 30th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Here we go
, Christmas wouldn’t be christmas without a Mc con christmas appeal would it ? well it is an expensive time of year !
“Missing Madeleine McCann’s mum Kate remains certain she is still alive - and plans a worldwide appeal at Christmas for help in finding the tot.”
“A sporting hero, who has yet to be named, will front the TV appeal. The celeb will speak as previously unseen footage of Maddie is screened.”
November 30th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Bye SteveT - think about it!
November 30th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Somalia isn’t that remote or an island so far as I know but you see they have got the piracy business down to a fine art and they have their own telecomms systems and accountants and financial advisers - they are after all professsionals and they have the advantage of prximity to the gulf states of course.
But if you fancy remote islands, once you’ve got a stash of loot you could take off top the far east, there are plenty of opportunities for piracy there and plenty of islands, and they’d probably beenefit from some professional advice, you could be running a global company in five years tiem, jus tremember who gave you the idea.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Bye all, off to Sunday dinner!
November 30th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Does Keeffy have a place in the Algarve? He could set up as a consulatnt in sedatives if the music business goes down, or even as a sideline.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Pirates used to hide in remote islands. Does that describe Somalia?
November 30th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I think they probably do help to keep the oil price up and perhaps it doesn’t benefit most people but if you thik about it once you’ve got your first fortune from piracy you could invest in oil, and in things like copper and titanium in central Asia and the darket bits of Africa, and if you kept up the fund profile you’d have alovely touchy feely image and no-one would think there was nyuthing dodgy about your dealings.
I think you’d have to ensure that you had sufficient on any firiends who became inadvertently involved to make sure they kept quiet, or you could buy them off, and anyway assassination isn’t that expensive witht he right contacts, and you’d hav ethose in the business you’re going into.
Just a word of warning - don’t use a toy cat as a mascot, it’s been done.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Keith say’s he knows of quite a few substances that can keep you asleep through anything.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I need to go and talk to Keith Richards.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Do Samalien pirates help to keep the oil price up? But who would benefit from that?
November 30th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I could pretend that I could not discuss the case for legal reasons. I probably need some kind of mascot…. a child’s toy perhaps? But would my friends agree to a pact of silence? What dirt do I have on them?
November 30th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
On second thoughts you could try investing the proceeds in Somalian piracy, that’s also quite lucrative and if you took your first fund earnings and reinvested you could use some of your ill-gotten piracy gains to pough back into further marketing of your fund and so on…… hmmm there’s a future in this, I’m off to write a business plan and look for some backers.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Well if your fund is successful you could retire and start a new life somewhere for you and your family to avoid any awkaward questions about to the use to which it was put.
Learn from experience - if you start a fund and don’t know when to stop flogging a daed horse you get all sorts of inconvenient quesitons and gripes from punters who may have contributed or who question your motives. Get yourslef a sporting hero or heroine to help - perhpas you’d need to give him/her a cut but hey marketing always costs soemthing!
November 30th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
But do steer clear of keeping your Fund in Iceland, or the Isle of Man; it would be positively tragic if all that hard-earned loot, sorry, generous contributions, were to be lost in the melt-down of the financial markets…
November 30th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Montaillou,
It would sure be better than working! I wish I didn’t have a conscience!
November 30th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
SteveT if you want to start a fund, which I believe can be a very good way of raising money if you get the objectives right, you’ll need to assemble a good library of children, family, family hamsters and guinea pigs etc (leave out the dogs) and reserve some unseen footage for a year hence. I would guess you could pay your Christmas bill sand keep up your mortgage that way. xx
November 30th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
I am going mad this Christmas! When I cant pay I am going to ask the goverment to bail me out. I might even start a fund.
November 30th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Much better, thanks, brandon. I feel for your wallet, though; Xmas is a disaster on the money front at the best of times, but having 4 birthdays as well just about tips it over. Have you managed to take advantage of the sales, or is it all hardcore stuff?
November 30th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Hi brandon
How are you doing?
November 30th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Hi steve
November 30th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Petronius,
Very true!
November 30th, 2008 at 8:12 am
I have found the Mods on here to be extremely good, they have to toe a fine line, and they do, they also don’t really brook Troll debating tactics, why the Weirdies keep getting into trouble, but whoever it is gets censored if it is libelous, like poor Jo did a while back.
Trolling, Libel.
Apart from that there is no censorship, they keep pointing that out.
However, when I personally don’t like the modding I stop posting there myself.
It’s really very easy; unless you are being paid to further the McCann cause online, of course, then it’s harder to stay away, I suppose…
November 30th, 2008 at 8:03 am
A once busy and vibrant thread destroyed by the private censorship of two mods, what goes around comes around, the number of posters driven away by the actions of these two is clear for all to see, dear Garth I knew you well.
November 30th, 2008 at 1:25 am
And of course when Bagpuss goes to sleep, all the friends go to sleep too
November 30th, 2008 at 12:47 am
good night chenier
November 30th, 2008 at 12:45 am
spongebob, think i know what you mean, could call myself an excellent user i suppose. i can’t programm. chenier i hope my telly gets better tommorrow too, but i doubt it, i’ll have to move in the portable. it’s typical though isn’t it. we’ve just paid to have the car fixed and a boiler and now no telly/it’s repair and it’s going to be a poor christmas for my kids.
November 30th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Good evening, Saul,
I will say very briefly that I don’t think Madeleine has been forgotten. The Cipriano trial, if nothing else, will make sure of that.
But the tabloids are notoriously uninterested in anything beyond the bottom line, all the more so when the media businesses are being hit by the financial crisis. Rupert Murdoch has a paper loss of around half his stake in News International, and who knows what has happened to Brian Kennedy.
And just where did the Fund have its money?
And I will say goodnight, again…