So what is DB Cooper all about? Is it an [i]homage/i1 to the Aston Martin and Mini Cooper marques?b,121b,121It would be great if people could explain their board names too. I'm not too well up on the 'local experience' Ameriman idiom and some of the witty names pass me by.b,121kthxbai
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b,121D. B. Cooper is the name attributed to a man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the United States on November 24, 1971, received US$200,000 in ransom, and parachuted from the plane vanishing without a trace. The name he used to board the plane was Dan Cooper, but through a later press miscommunication, he became known as "D. B. Cooper". Despite hundreds of leads through the years, no conclusive evidence has surfaced regarding Cooper's true identity or whereabouts, and the bulk of the money has never been recovered. Several theories offer competing explanations of what happened after his famed jump, which the FBI believes he did not survive.
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b,121The nature of Cooper's escape and the uncertainty of his fate continue to intrigue people. The Cooper case (code-named "Norjak" by the FBI) remains an unsolved mystery, and along with Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is one of the world's few unsolved cases of aircraft hijacking.
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b,121Within two weeks of the 1971 skyjacking, local Washington songstress Judy Sword produced a song, "D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?"
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b,121In 1980, a California-based rock band called D.B. Cooper self-released their debut EP, Every Man A King. That same year, the group was signed to Warner Bros. Records and issued their debut album, Buy American. A second album, Dangerous Curves, followed in 1981.
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b,121Oregon-native singer-songwriter Todd Snider wrote and performed a song about the famous mystery titled "D. B. Cooper."
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b,121Singer-songwriter Chuck Brodsky has a song titled "The Ballad of D. B. Cooper" on his 2006 CD, Tulips for Lunch.
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b,121Roger McGuinn's self-titled 1973 solo album contains the song "Bag Full of Money" referring to Cooper's hijacking.
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b,121Rapper MF DOOM makes reference to Cooper in his song "Hoe Cakes" on his 2004 album MM..Food.
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b,121Indie rockers Everything is Fine feature two songs about Cooper, "Vapor Trails and Light" and "D.B. Cooper" on their 2005 album Ghosts Are Knocking on Walls on Ohio-based Tract Records.
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b,121Rock-rapper Kid Rock mentions Cooper in his hit song "Bawitdaba" off his 1998 album Devil Without a Cause.
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b,121Loc: your picture of Stalin riding a Year3 Limited Edition Starflower inside a German concentration camp was both upsetting and historically inaccurate
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font class="post"1b,121b,121Also the subject of my all-time favorite "Unsolved Mysteries" segment.1b,121b,121EDIT: Actually that segment would be the infamous, The Garage Is On Fire1But Not Really But The House Is Still Haunted segment.b,121b,121 img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/headz.gif" alt="" 21b,121b,121My name is fairly self-explanatory but I suppose I could try to be clever and say it's a double-entendre nod to the shirt of choice of the hip-hop community, and much of the rest of the world at large. Hey, they are comfortable, inexpensive and, best of all, if everyone's wearing one, they can't tell us apart!
b,121My name is fairly self-explanatory but I suppose I could try to be clever and say it's a double-entendre nod to the shirt of choice of the hip-hop community, and much of the rest of the world at large. Hey, they are comfortable, inexpensive and, best of all, if everyone's wearing one, they can't tell us apart!1
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More people should use their real names/nicknames/DJ names instead of cutesy wootsy ones. C'mon...who you trying to hide from?!b,121b,121(Yeah, I know I was Hotsauce84. But that's only because this was the first message board I ever registered on and I thought I was 'posed to use my email name! Thank God a moderator let me change it!)
I think I was once Jump Jump, but that was before the great crash. b,121b,121Laser Wolf The Butcher is from Fiddler On The Roof. b,121b,121Repping my Jewish heritage. b,121b,121Dan
I was dizzy bullb,121then trouser lopezb,121then egbert souseb,121then dizzy bull again.b,121b,121b,121i think about changing my name but people will still call me dizzy so oh well. actually I suppose I could change to Gary.b,121b, 21Or Cletus T. Pickbone III
b,121More people should use their real names/nicknames/DJ names instead of cutesy wootsy ones. C'mon...who you trying to hide1from?!
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font class="post"1b,121b,121hmmm...well based on my personal experiences in the past:b,121b,121general e-stalkers/creeps, nosey bosses, disgruntled co-workers,1criminal landlords, lawyers of criminal landlords, teenage nephews and half-siblings who believe i'm a square auntie/sis, and many more!b,121b,121i don't think complete anonymity on the internet is necessary or even possible these days for me, but i can think of1many instances where it's sensible to refrain from using your government name.b,121b,121b,121edit:/b1b,121what i don't understand is why some folks post under different names (i.e.1BATMON and Lucious Fox) when it is generally known that they are the same person. I am1hoping that Lucious Fox will share PMs from when he was pretending to be1a female poaster who casually admitted she liked porn, if there were any.1I doubt that fooled anyone, but who knows.
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