Illuminati, of course.
How can they not be there?
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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Sue - Nov 08, 2004 7:57:37 am PST #5520 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 08, 2004 8:01:32 am PST #5521 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Would Ed Wood count as a biopic? If so, it was a great one, and I'd say that despite Depp being wonderful in the title role, it was Martin Landau's performance that set the movie screens on fire. But even Sarah Jessica Parker was very, very good in that film.
Several radio stations here are using the "bi-ah-pic" mispronunciation. I feel like asking them if they think it's the Six Million Dollar Movie.
Vonnie K - Nov 08, 2004 8:13:43 am PST #5522 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Are Illuminati related to the Freemasons and/or the Knights Templar? I always get these secret societies mixed up. They are all, like, international finances and secret rings and goat sacrifice. Who could keep it all straight?
Betsy HP - Nov 08, 2004 8:15:23 am PST #5523 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Yes! That's the wonderful thing! All of the European mystic societies claim to be derived from each other. It's great fun. Read Foucalt's Pendulum.
Nutty - Nov 08, 2004 8:18:16 am PST #5524 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think all secret societies are secretly the same society. The Head Secret Guy of all the societies pits them against each other to make it look to the rest of the world like the secret societies are not in league, when really they are.
Actually I think the Illuminati are supposed to be Papal spies; Templars are supposed to be attempting to rule the world and/or bring about its end, and may have a deep-seated hatred of the Pope; and Freemasons just wear fuzzy antlers on their heads and get together on Tuesdays to watch the Andy Griffith Show and play pinochle.
I canna explain the Shriners.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 08, 2004 8:18:55 am PST #5525 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
What's the current one that has suspicious hush-hush conferences attended by all the high muckey-mucks of various governments? Bilderberg, or something like that?
Betsy HP - Nov 08, 2004 8:27:37 am PST #5526 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
What's the current one that has suspicious hush-hush conferences attended by all the high muckey-mucks of various governments?
Trilateral Commission?
Vonnie K - Nov 08, 2004 8:30:15 am PST #5527 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Read Foucalt's Pendulum.
I read it, like, 15 years ago, and can no longer remember anything about the plot. (Frankly, I couldn't figure out what the hell I just read even then. It was entertaining though.) Except for the part where someone proclaimed that the Templars were all into Hot Gay Lovin' on account of riding the horses pressed against each other and stuff. That cracked me up.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 08, 2004 8:55:59 am PST #5528 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I canna explain the Shriners.
Fezzes and go-carts - what's to explain? I think they're the last bastion of the surrealists.
Jesse - Nov 08, 2004 9:13:38 am PST #5529 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Shriners are a branch of Masons. Wouldn't it be Elks wearing the antlers?