"Did You Watch the Jackson Memorial Service Today?" Topic

I caught most of it live. I was shocked that I was drawn into it! I thought it was well done.

Avoided it as much as I could.

Wyatt

My Lady watched it. Shrug.

while watching it at work in the break room I told my boss I needed to be home so I could share this moment with the world. for some reason he would not let me go.

The what? Did something happen to Jesse Jackson?

Allen

I thought it was ANDY Jackson!
SOB deserved it.

Rush must have known he was going to be preempted. He took the day off.

I managed to offend two secretaries by explaining they had to go back to work and skip the whole inappropriate, bad taste, public grief for the unworthy, thing.

Well, it wasn't Samuel L Jackson. He's on Conan right now.

Missed it. I didn't know the man so I didn't think it was appropriate for me to attend.

wife taped it to watch tonite..ugh

I was drawn in by curiosity, but ten minutes into it I bailed. I dunno, but I just had this unshakable feeling that this was the way the Roman Empire bided it's time until their eventual downfall.

Call me crazy.

For 2 seconds each at almost every American and Canadian mainstream network and all of the "news" channels, including the BBC world service, while flipping around. When I returned some four hours later, it was still going on, so I watched a DVD instead.

No, why should I?

Absolutely no reason Gungnir.

No.

Nope….

Far as I can tell the 'memorial service' has been going on for two weeks now… with no sign of stopping.

Saw some woman from Brown University going on about how 'underrecognized' MJ was… some other guy claiming he was the 'greatest entertainer ever'… yet some other yakster blathering about how he was the 'greatest dancer'.

It was like everyone had this attic full of superlatives they needed to clear out of their attics…

But don't be down of heart for those that missed the big send off. There's another one scheduled in London for next month!!! Something to do with Jocko's birthday … Maybe they'll be one every month!!!

I was either asleep, in a car, in an OR or on a plane all day today so I didn't see any of it. Not that I would have watched it anyway.

What kyoteblue said.

I was suprised it was sponsored by KFC though!

Is he really dead…or will he turn up in a Nursing Home with Elvis and JFK……

Maybe he will show up in Bubba Ho Tep 3?

I am waiting for the Memorial DVD with never before seen footage. I am sure I will have to stand in line to get it, because quantities will be limited or maybe I will not do that. I do not understand any of this.

Mike

I decided to base up some battlemechs instead.

Why?

No.

And I applaud anyone who got free tickets and sold them.

There is some breaking news; MJ is still dead.

Let's all pay homage to an alleged mentally unbalanced, drug addled child molester. He deservedly should get more coverage than .

Not a whit, other than what the radio news was broad-
casting.

Today was laundry day, y'see…

I was drawn in by curiosity, but ten minutes into it I bailed.

You lasted longer than I did.

He's still alive…

…didn't you see "LaToya"?

Now he doesn't have to switch back and forth.

Nope

No, I didn't know the man, so watching the memorial service would have been akin to just randomly dropping into a local funeral home and joining whomever's memorial service was going on there.

Mark

I somehow expected light to pour out of the coffin and that Michael would rise from the dead and give us the concert of the century.

I kept having it pushed in my face all damn day. And I could not possibly care less about him being dead. I wanted to vomit to "celebrate" his passing…

Only caught a bit on a webcast.

Sreetline- dont use the wife as an excuse for watching it… :-)

That's the spirit Nazrat!

I hated him before it was fashionable as well.

Would poke my eyes out before watching that.

No.

No

Somehow managed to miss teh thing despite sitting around and painting figures all day with the tv on

Nope. I was a productive member of society and was at work. Also it meant giving up my breaks to read TMP.

I was disappointed that Bubbles the chimp did not make an appearance. Maybe he was too shaken up over the whole thing.

But this got me wondering…. What ever happened to Bo Jackson? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Jackson

No. Zero interest.

No

Only the bits the evening news kept showing over and over and over and over…

and over…

and over…

and over…

"But this got me wondering…. What ever happened to Bo Jackson?"

Bo knows.

Walked through a room and caught a moving, in a plumbing sense, tribute from one of my least favorite legislators Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. No way I'd watch after THAT!To be honest, I wouldn't have watched anyway, even if someone held me at gunpoint. Death is better than some alternatives.

I TRIED to watch news. None o' that, though.

I was suprised it was sponsored by KFC though!

Really?? Funny that you mention that, streetline. I was listening to a local sports station this morning, and they played audio clips from the service. One clip they played had Magic Johnson talking about the time he and Jacko were diggin' through a bucket of KFC at Neverland. Being the suspicious type, I'm wondering if he was approached beforehand to mention the product on live tv? It wouldn't surprise me if that was the case.

Anyway, I tuned in and out when Brooke Shields was blabbering and blubbering. Glad I missed the rest of the circus.

No. Why waste 90 minutes on it?