I remember where I was when I learned that Freddy Mercury had died

I wish i had a chance to see him live in concert :(
alas, i was a mere tot when he passed

I was in my final year at University when he died.

"Queens Greatest Hits" was my first ever album (on tape, people, remember that?)

I learned it just now so of course I remember where I was.

Someone I know scrawled GTFC RULES on his house in Kensington in big black letters amongst all the "freddy we love you" stuff when he snuffed it.

(Grimsby Town Football Club)

@Mark; I have Greatest Hits Volume 1 on vinyl.

@fiXedd; where've you beeeen?

@Dewey; woz he from Grimsby or sum'mat?

Yes, he is from Grimsby: as far as I know he went back there to continue his alcoholism and live with his mother.

Packers: in a world that doesn't care about Freddy Mercury.

fiXedd; your sentence looks like you forgot to finish it .... what do you mean?

Packers: I think it was a reply to the last comment you aimed at him.

it was... try this:

    Packers: @fiXedd; where've you beeeen?

    fiXedd: @Packers: I've been in a world that doesn't care about Freddy Mercury.

Ah! I understand

He was a zoroastrian, did you know that?

So the grafiti could have said Thus Spoke George Kerr.

I have no idea who he is... I guess I am too young. Well, if Master Chief ever dies... I will remember where I was.

Jules, go home, now.

I was at work in La Jolla, CA.

I must have seen Queen a dozen times or more. Had vinyl as well as 8-tracks of most of their albums. None of the Greatest Hits albums - that would have been redundant.

HOLY SHIT FREDDY. I THOUGHT U MENT SOMEONE ELSE. THE BISEXUAL QUEEN SINGER WHO DIED OF AIDS. MY BAD MY BAD MY BAD. I never knew his last name... I only knew him as Fred, due to all the youtube comments saying "RIP Freddy"

And yes I do remember! I was on my computer looking at Youtube comments saying RIP Freddy.

=)

Jules,
Listen to Tad.

Freddie died in '91 Happy Wrap. Your 12 year old identity gets more holes in it every day.

Good catch, David.

There also was no youtube in 91, so it's a particularly stupid lie to cast.

When I "learned" I never knew the guy was dead. I learned he was dead when I saw a comment saying RIP Freddy on the comment section of a youtube video of bohemian rhapsody. Just because I learned 16 years later I still learned it.
Back to doing some hardcore converting for this pain in the ass zune.
And to coppy business.

I find that difficult to believe. When I used to listen to really old music when I was a kid, I'd tend to find out that musicians were dead before I was twelve, or I'd start assuming they were dead an being surprised when they were still alive...

I also could spell "copy"

Well, not like the copy a paper copy, like, coppy, you know, the cops? Hey, I never knew he was dead, MY BAD!

"coppy"?

That isn't a word.

Jules, go home, now.

I am at home!
It is a word in some dead language, I bet you 10 virtual bucks.

Are we communicating in "some dead language?" No, we're writing in English. You could pick another language (preferably a phonetician language, but w/e) and we could speak in that manner, but thus far our communications have been in English.

Jules, geh nach Hause, jetzt.

Ho Flo Cro Bo Jo To Mo Jo Cro Jo

Como estas?

Que?

Patrick would understand.

If coppy is a word in a dead language it doesn't mean cop like. Cop is an eighteenth century word for police officer (it's an acronym for Constable On Patrol). So the language would have had to spring up from English in less than a century and then die out.

They don't do that.

"Fubar" is one example of a word with an acronym for an origin.

Technical jargon of any kind can be immune to that rule, it need not only be "scientific."

@ Patrick: but those "stories about words like fuck and posh and cop" are so fun!

I meant you'd understand

Ho Flo Cro Bo Jo To Mo Jo Cro Jo

dufus.

Say it out loud with a gruff accent and you might get there.

For the rest of us, nic?

You might also be able to get into the idiom if you WEAR A GREAT BIG FUCKING RHINO HAT

Well, I hastily constructed a hat shaped like a rhino fucking out of a newspaper, but wearing it didn't grant me any insight.

Knock Knock

Dr.

No. The Dr. of the Judoon who come to earth and talk like the above until they rapidly assimilate earth english.

Sontarans just featured in the spin off about sarah jane. Did you see it?

My daughter loved it.

My ignorance shall be my bliss.

Oh this was awful too. She's 6.

Yes. It was that.

It has nuns in it! Sinister.