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The Matrix: Resolutions
Slappy White writes "For six months, Matrix message boards were aflame with speculation, theories, predictions and outright psychotic guessing about Revolutions. Now the film is here, and this article has a humorous roundup of some of the popular theories, both those that were close and others that were, shall we say, a little off the mark." I still haven't seen this film, so I'll refrain from passing judgment, but I'm ever so happy the matrix-within-a-matrix theories were unfounded. Update: 11/09 02:38 GMT by CN : Some folks who've never seen the Twilight Zone or even the Simpsons' Treehouse of Horrors thought that was a spoiler. If you're one of those people, I'm very sorry.
Sorry about the spoiler in the subject
That's why it sux donkey balls
You're a cockbite CowboyNeal, that was completely unnecessary. God damn.
The matrix continues to exist.
From alt.gossip.royalty
"The story goes that PC was in a long-term gay relationship with his
Private Secretary Michael Fawcett (his aide de camp? Pardon the pun, I
couldn't resist it). One of his valets, Falklands veteran George Smith,
walked in on them one morning after what had by all accounts been a fairly
sweaty night.
There have been repeated reports of PC having his servants squeeze his
toothpaste and hold a specimen bottle for him to piss in - I wonder if that
servant was Fawcett?
The story continues. Smith alleged that Fawcett had raped him once and
sexually assaulted him on another occasion. When he told PC, it was covered
up and PC refused to call in Inspector Plod. He was then bribed to keep his
mouth shut, fired and trashed in the press as a loony. Or rather, a "tragic
victim of post-traumatic stress. We've done our best for him, but he's
really very ill".
Smith spilled the beans to Diana, who taped it and stored it in her famous
wooden box, which disappeared around the same time that Burrell was
arrested. Whether he still has it, SIS kept it for future reference (Cf. J
Edgar Hoover's obsessive collection of scandal on everyone in high society)
or Inspector Knacker returned it to POW is unknown.
Under extreme pressure form the parents, POW quietly sidelined Fawcett in
the aftermath of the Burrell trial last year. He reportedly got a 1/2
million payoff, his grace-and-favour house for next to nothing and a
guaranteed freelance contract for 4 times his original salary, not to
mention a huge line of credit with PC's lawyers."
The Mail On Sunday printed Smith's allegations last year, so we can safely
assume that the hot news that they are reported to have is slightly
different/more in-depth than that. Whatever it is, they approached Fawcett
last week to tell him that they had the story and he could either
'co-operate' with them or they would publish anyway. Fawcett put in a call
to POW who activated the lawyers and they obtained an injunction from Mr
Justice McKinnon on Saturday lat weekend. A further injunction was obtained
against The Guardian preventing them from disclosing Michael Fawcett's name.
The injunction against The Guardian was overturned, and the Mail On Sunday
was able to vary the terms of the injunction against it, although we don't
know yet what that variation represents.
On Friday the story appeared in the Italian tabloid Corriere della Sera
(page 19, if you're desperate) but interestingly not on their web site. It
also appeared in Switzerland, and on the NY Times' website, from where it
was pulled after a few hours.
The newspapers and news organisations are gradually making more and more
overt hints about what the allegations are. It has been suggested that if
you read all the papers and watch all the TV news stations you'll be able to
piece together the jigsaw, which suggests a possible deliberate attempt by
the Fourth Estate to get the news into the public domain.
Popbitch reports the following:
Poor Prince Charles. That ghastly butler is going around telling tales, and
everyone says that Burrell has other stories that will bring down the
Monarchy.
Surely they can't be referring to Charles getting "happy finish" massages
from his valet?
The suggestion is now being made in higher social circles that if POW is
indeed gay, there's every likelihood that William as well as Harry were
sired from another's loins. It's generally accepted that Diana was taken on
board as a Royal brood mare and cast aside when she's provided the firm with
'an her and a spare', but it didn't occur to anyone that the brood mare
needed a brood sire. If it goes public that POW is gay it will immediately
call into question his children's genetic line, and if it can be proved
(witness the princes' security getting massively protective over attempts to
get hold
Quit whining about it you bum! MATRIX SUX!
Did it ever occur to you that some people might not want to know that the matrix-within-a-matrix theories were unfounded by reading the main page? At least you could have put your comments in the story details and given a spoiler warning. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for for diminishing my Matrix Revolutions experience.
Funny?
Jesus, you people here need to learn how to vote.
And how to read and write. And think for yourselves.
Almost really. These NEO-communists (NEO, get it?) might like a return to the "good old days". (Actually they probably did it so people would take their picture, it would get carried by newswires, and someone would eventually post it to Slashdot. I hope they're happy now.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
On the other hand, God exists outside of time. He just "is". He had no beginning, has no end. So while this seems like a clever argument, if you scratch beyond the surface and look at the reason why we say they are different, it makes sense.