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  • snowcat
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
    • 1348

    #1036
    My second mission companion used to claim he was Mick Jagger to random people in Spain. He even signed several autographs. He looked nothing like Mick Jagger.
    One of the grandest benefits of the enlightenment was the realization that our moral sense must be based on the welfare of living individuals, not on their immortal souls. Honest and passionate folks can strongly disagree regarding spiritual matters, so it's imperative that we not allow such considerations to infringe on the real happiness of real people.

    Woot

    I believe religion has much inherent good and has born many good fruits.
    SU

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    • Bo Diddley
      Senior
      • Jul 2012
      • 18717

      #1037
      Now that I think back, there was a guy I taught as a missionary in London that looked a lot like Mick Jagger. I didn't think anything of it at the time. I never got his name and he told us to refer to him as Your Majesty.

      Edit: I got you, Elder Cook.

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      • Jeff Lebowski
        Corporate lackey for Jesus
        • Nov 2008
        • 69481

        #1038
        Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View Post
        I was highly skeptical of the Cook/Jagger story from the beginning. Jagger flying alone from Mexico to Texas at the height of his fame? My guess is that Cook was sincere but was duped by some dude who looked like Jagger and decided to have some fun once he realized Cook had bought into his schtick.
        Haha. That is the best theory yet.
        "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
        "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
        "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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        • Bo Diddley
          Senior
          • Jul 2012
          • 18717

          #1039
          Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View Post
          I was highly skeptical of the Cook/Jagger story from the beginning. Jagger flying alone from Mexico to Texas at the height of his fame? My guess is that Cook was sincere but was duped by some dude who looked like Jagger and decided to have some fun once he realized Cook had bought into his schtick.
          Hey and maybe that imposter is the same guy I taught.

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          • CardiacCoug
            вот так штука
            • Nov 2008
            • 11013

            #1040
            Originally posted by MartyFunkhouser View Post
            PAC, I sincerely thank you for your post leading me to this gem. My life is better having read this.
            http://www.moroni10.com/Cook_meets_Jagger.html
            He did in fact shoot several music videos in Mexico so that part checks out as possible.

            The story makes it sounds like he has 3 different women pregnant at the same time and that does not check out.

            I agree that it was likely some dufus “pretending” to be Mick Jagger with Cook too clueless to know.

            Cook could totally have been upgraded to first class — I don’t find that part implausible at all.

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            • myboynoah
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2008
              • 21719

              #1041
              Originally posted by snowcat View Post
              My second mission companion used to claim he was Mick Jagger to random people in Spain. He even signed several autographs. He looked nothing like Mick Jagger.
              I signed several baseballs as a missionary in Japan as Pete Rose and Babe Ruth.
              Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

              For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

              Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."

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              • LA Ute
                Receiver of Memory
                • Nov 2008
                • 19512

                #1042
                “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                ― W.H. Auden


                "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons


                "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                • Pelado
                  Bald not naked
                  • Sep 2010
                  • 21092

                  #1043
                  Originally posted by CardiacCoug View Post
                  He did in fact shoot several music videos in Mexico so that part checks out as possible.

                  The story makes it sounds like he has 3 different women pregnant at the same time and that does not check out.

                  I agree that it was likely some dufus “pretending” to be Mick Jagger with Cook too clueless to know.

                  Cook could totally have been upgraded to first class — I don’t find that part implausible at all.
                  What music videos was Elder Cook filming in Mexico?
                  "I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
                  - Goatnapper'96

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                  • MartyFunkhouser
                    Disciple of RNGesus
                    • Nov 2008
                    • 18717

                    #1044
                    I think you are all so cynical. It is completely believable that Mick Jagger said the exact words "our music is calculated to drive the kids to sex." That sounds just like him.
                    As I lead this army, make room for mistakes and depression
                    --Kendrick Lamar

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                    • Pelado
                      Bald not naked
                      • Sep 2010
                      • 21092

                      #1045
                      Originally posted by MartyFunkhouser View Post
                      I think you are all so cynical. It is completely believable that Mick Jagger said the exact words "our music is calculated to drive the kids to sex." That sounds just like him.
                      Almost like it was lifted right out of "Sympathy for the Devil".
                      "I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
                      - Goatnapper'96

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                      • Commando
                        Explosivo
                        • Feb 2009
                        • 20748

                        #1046
                        Originally posted by myboynoah View Post
                        I signed several baseballs as a missionary in Japan as Pete Rose and Babe Ruth.
                        My buddy was in Japan for a couple months back in the early 2000s and was subjected to a barrage of tourists (nationality unclear) insisting he was Leonardo DiCaprio. He says he was walking down a country road somewhere and whole tour bus pulled over to accost him. Autographs, pictures, the whole 9. He looks absolutely nothing like Leo.
                        "I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"

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                        • Jeff Lebowski
                          Corporate lackey for Jesus
                          • Nov 2008
                          • 69481

                          #1047
                          Originally posted by Commando View Post
                          My buddy was in Japan for a couple months back in the early 2000s and was subjected to a barrage of tourists (nationality unclear) insisting he was Leonardo DiCaprio. He says he was walking down a country road somewhere and whole tour bus pulled over to accost him. Autographs, pictures, the whole 9. He looks absolutely nothing like Leo.
                          "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                          "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                          "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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                          • CJF
                            Senior Member
                            • Nov 2008
                            • 8497

                            #1048
                            Originally posted by Commando View Post
                            My buddy was in Japan for a couple months back in the early 2000s and was subjected to a barrage of tourists (nationality unclear) insisting he was Leonardo DiCaprio. He says he was walking down a country road somewhere and whole tour bus pulled over to accost him. Autographs, pictures, the whole 9. He looks absolutely nothing like Leo.
                            All white guys look the same. I told my wife that I’m Brad Pitt. Only way I could get her to marry me.
                            A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. - Mohammad Ali

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                            • beefytee
                              Board eye candy
                              • Mar 2009
                              • 7542

                              #1049
                              Yeah. I got Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise comparisons all the time on my mission.

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                              • Eddie
                                Senior Member
                                • Apr 2009
                                • 8098

                                #1050
                                Originally posted by beefytee View Post
                                Yeah. I got Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise comparisons all the time on my mission.
                                All I could get was the friend Cameron comparisons from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

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