do you like worms? Posted Fri Aug 24 17:57:51 BST 2001 by Unruly Butler

A recording of Fred West's voice is to be heard on a forthcoming Channel 5 documentary, apparently.

That'll be someone totally misunderstanding the motivation behind broadcasting the Bulger killer interrogation tapes, and thinking it's just real cool to hear murderers talk, hur hur hur.


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Posted By 'jon venables' on Fri Aug 24 21:32:21 BST 2001:

I didn't kcchhhcckkilll the bayyybeee.


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Posted By 'Terry Venables' on Sat Aug 25 14:47:32 BST 2001:

And I certainly didnt. Im a football manager.


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Posted By 'Phil Thompson' on Sun Aug 26 00:47:43 BST 2001:

Neither did I. It was Robbie Fowler.


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Posted By 'Chris Morris' on Wed Aug 29 18:56:06 BST 2001:

Did someone mention killing babies? Hey, that sounds like a great idea for a sketch!!!!!!!!!


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Posted By 'Mike4SOTCAA' on Thu Aug 30 16:28:21 BST 2001:

Did you know Myra Hindley has a lovely singing voice and won a guitar-playing competition once? True.


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Posted By Unruly Butler on Mon Sep 3 16:27:44 BST 2001:

She could duet on some Charles Manson numbers and get the nu-metal hordes creaming in their sports shorts.


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Posted By 'Anonymous' on Wed Sep 5 19:14:12 BST 2001:

Did you know that Charles Manson did not audition for The Monkees?


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Posted By Unruly Butler on Thu Sep 6 15:58:39 BST 2001:

What's the source of the urban myth, then?


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Posted By Mogwai on Thu Sep 6 16:35:06 BST 2001:

>What's the source of the urban myth, then?

From exhaustive urban myth resource http:www.snopes2.com :

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Claim:   Charles Manson was one of the 437 applicants who tried out for The Monkees in 1965.

Status:   False.

Origins:   On 8 September 1965, an advertisement appeared in Daily Variety seeking "Folk & Rock Musicians-Singers" and "4 Insane Boys, Age 17-21" for "Acting Roles in a New TV Series." Four hundred and thirty-seven hopefuls auditioned for producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, and four young men were eventually chosen to star in the pilot for a TV show about a rock group called The Monkees. Charles Manson was paroled from the prison at Terminal Island, San Pedro, California (where he had been sent for stealing cars) in 1958. Within a year he was picked up for forging a U.S. Treasury check, convicted, given a ten-year suspended sentence, and placed on probation. After Manson was indicted for a Mann Act violation in 1960 a Los Angeles court ruled that he had violated his probation and ordered him to serve the suspended sentence. Manson was sent to the United States Penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington in 1961, where he spent five years before being transferred back to Terminal Island; after another year at Terminal Island he was paroled and released on 21 March 1967. Since Manson was in prison between 1961 and 1967, he could not possibly have attended auditions held in 1965. (At thirty, he would have been several years too old to have been seriously considered for a part even if he had tried out.)

Exactly when and how this rumor got started is unknown, but long-time Los Angeles disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer, who attended the auditions (and served as Davy Jones' double), even claimed Manson was there. The legend was plausible because Manson had been hanging around the fringes of the music scene in southern California in the late 1960s -- auditioning for Byrds producer Terry Melcher, living at the home of Beach Boy drummer Dennis Wilson, and having one of his compositions released as the B-side of a Beach Boys single -- and the story meshed with those of several other unknowns who failed to make the cut for the Monkees but later achieved fame on their own (e.g., Paul Williams, Danny Hutton, and Stephen Stills).

People love to tell scary tales about having survived close brushes with murderers (see, for example, Deborah Harry's claim that she was once abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy), so this rumor has remained a popular favorite for many years now, even though it is clearly false.


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