He was murdered last week by elvis because he was shagging Mary Lin monroe
Andy Kaufman: Dead or Alive Page 2
Quote: Pingl @ November 6 2012, 2:27 PM GMThe won't he's dead
Ummm, yeah, he died in 1984 - he's kind of 8 years late to give any validity to that idea.
Hence "the late Andy Kaufman".
Quote: DeathbyMonkey @ November 6 2012, 2:25 PM GMTjust pointing out that you personally have no proof he's dead other than you've been told he is. Simple as that.
I have no proof that Bill Hicks, Sam Kinison, John Candy, Jim Belushi or Chris Farley are dead either. But I believe them to be dead, mainly due to their lack of television and film appearances.
The only people who believe (or care) that Andy Kaufmann is still alive are Andy Kaufmann fans. Yeah, it's tragic when a talented comic dies too soon, but as grown ups, we have to face grief head on and move forward with our lives.
It's easier to believe a conspiracy then the truth, that's why they're so gosh durn popular.
If you stare hard enough at anything and you really want to believe it eventually you will and find the evidence to back it up, everything in life is flawed. The truth is normally the obvious answer, he's dead, shame but true.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ November 6 2012, 2:23 PM GMTI can, I will, I do. The Olympics didn't get blowed up and the freaks have only a few days left before the Mayan Apocalypse fails to happen.
As Wikileaks and about a gazillion other scandals have proved, people are too stupid and greedy to have a proper conspiracy these days.
So you just believe everything the news tells you?
Conspiracy theories rise because people see contradictions in the accepted truth. Most of them are easily disprovable through simple analysis but some have an element of fact that makes them persuasive - Kirk Cobain's death for example. But that's ultimately the folly of the internet - so much fake information is disseminated it's hard to tell whether the any of the counter-arguments are based at all in reality. It's easy enough to just add false information to keep the myth going.
Quote: DeathbyMonkey @ November 6 2012, 2:28 PM GMTUmmm, yeah, he died in 1984 - he's kind of 8 years late to give any validity to that idea.
I said he won't turn up because he is dead. If he does turn up get out the aerosol
Quote: DeathbyMonkey @ November 6 2012, 2:32 PM GMTSo you just believe everything the news tells you?
Only Fox News!
Though to be fair, I prefer my news to come from Reuters / AP Wire then some dude on the Internet with a 'theory'. I am a crazy conformist like that.
Quote: DeathbyMonkey @ November 6 2012, 2:32 PM GMTSo you just believe everything the news tells you?
Conspiracy theories rise because people see contradictions in the accepted truth. Most of them are easily disprovable through simple analysis but some have an element of fact that makes them persuasive - Kirk Cobain's death for example. But that's ultimately the folly of the internet - so much fake information is disseminated it's hard to tell whether the any of the counter-arguments are based at all in reality. It's easy enough to just add false information to keep the myth going.
Renegade believes nothing the news tells him. But he can tell the difference between the living and the dead, just.... 
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ November 6 2012, 2:31 PM GMTI have no proof that Bill Hicks, Sam Kinison, John Candy, Jim Belushi or Chris Farley are dead either. But I believe them to be dead, mainly due to their lack of television and film appearances.
The only people who believe (or care) that Andy Kaufmann is still alive are Andy Kaufmann fans. Yeah, it's tragic when a talented comic dies too soon, but as grown ups, we have to face grief head on and move forward with our lives.
It's easier to believe a conspiracy then the truth, that's why they're so gosh durn popular.
Absolutely, I only questioned Andy Kaufman because he apparently said he wanted to fake his own death - according to Zmuda - and little nuggets like:
Quote: WikipediaKaufman and Zmuda wrote a screenplay for a Tony Clifton biography. However, the plan was sidelined after the box office failure of Kaufman's first major motion picture Heartbeeps, in which he co-starred with Bernadette Peters as a robot who falls in love. In the screenplay Clifton dies at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from cancer. Five years later, Kaufman died at the same hospital from lung cancer. Some conspiracy-minded fans say that Kaufman was - with this screenplay - setting up what would be his greatest prank ever: faking his own death.
The accepted consensus is that he is dead, which I barely doubted, I was just curious if anyone knew if the above quote had any validity - or if this was fake eveidence.
Frankly that whole Tony Clifton thing got on my nerves, the eventual film was painful nonsense, along with that awful Peter Sellers film
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ November 6 2012, 2:35 PM GMTOnly Fox News!
Though to be fair, I prefer my news to come from Reuters / AP Wire then some dude on the Internet with a 'theory'. I am a crazy conformist like that.
Well yeah, but we all know certain things are kept out of the main media - like the arrest of that cycle group in Stratford who were protesting the Olympics during the opening ceremony. One disabled man was pepper sprayed.
I completely agree with you - but I do accept that we don't really get news in this country, we get a lot of spin and opinion, not cold hard facts, hence why I maintain scepticism with everything I read.
Quote: Pingl @ November 6 2012, 2:35 PM GMTRenegade believes nothing the news tells him. But he can tell the difference between the living and the dead, just....
The first rule of Corpse Shagging - make sure the guy at the morgue gives you overdoses only, car crash victims are just way too messy for l'amore.
Common sense is normally the best answer
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ November 6 2012, 2:40 PM GMTThe first rule of Corpse Shagging - make sure the guy at the morgue gives you overdoses only, car crash victims are just way too messy for l'amore.
He is correct
Quote: DeathbyMonkey @ November 6 2012, 2:40 PM GMT
If you search 'I read the news today oh boy' thread on this here BCG, you'll see that I highlighted this story and even linked to it on the BBC News website - f**king cyclists, the police should have got a bulldozer and pushed them all into the canal.