Vincent Goes Underground - What for?

by Amber Rose 10 Replies latest social entertainment

  • Amber Rose
    Amber Rose

    I am confused by that thread. Anyone care to enlighten me? You just post lyrics to songs running through your head? What is the significance of the title of the thread? Does it have something to do with that TV show from the '90s "Beauty and the Beast"? The beast was named Vincent and he lived underground. Is that where the title came from? Can you post any song or is there a theme that I am missing? Please help!

  • lonelysheep
    lonelysheep

    Me, too. I haven't made time to go through 80 pages of a thread.

  • Gopher
    Gopher

    Here's a thread with an explanation: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/23995/1.ashx

    According to one of our early posters back in 2002:

    In the early days of the board, there was a poster named..Vincent. He was a caring and a loving person but would only post song lyrics. Some speculated that he was insane, others thought him a troll, still others accused him of being a music business shill, here to brainwash us into buying 80's hair rock. The strain was too much for Vincent, and in a withering display of contempt for the board, created one last post named Vincent Goes Underground. All that the thread contained was a single sentence.

    Vincent goes underground, underground is where he goes.

    Noone knows what happened to Vincent. There were whispers that he had surfaced at another Witness site, but that was quickly disproven. Sightings were also made in Yahoo chat rooms, IRC channels, and even at a few legitimate witness sites. Were these people Vincent? Noone will ever know.

    Embarassed and ashamed at the cruelty that had forced our idiot-savant to flee in sorrow, the board established a thread they vowed would never die.

  • lonelysheep
    lonelysheep

    Thank you, Gopher.

  • Twitch
    Twitch

    Sad

    RIP Vincent

  • Gopher
    Gopher

    YW, Lonelysheep and anyone else who was wondering.

    This thread started on 9/22/2001 (11 days after you-know-what) and has contiued on till now. Sad Emo just posted the latest entry on this thread today.

    http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/27/12364/1.ashx

  • Amber Rose
    Amber Rose

    Thanks Gopher! What a sad and strange story.

  • Sad emo
    Sad emo

    The ethos of the thread now is kinda based around the song 'Vincent' - or 'Starry, Starry Night' by Don MacLean:

    Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) Lyrics
    Starry, starry night.
    Paint your palette blue and grey,
    Look out on a summer's day,
    With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
    Shadows on the hills,
    Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
    Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
    In colors on the snowy linen land.

    Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
    How you suffered for your sanity,
    How you tried to set them free.
    They would not listen, they did not know how.
    Perhaps they'll listen now.
    Starry, starry night.
    Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
    Swirling clouds in violet haze,
    Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
    Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,
    Weathered faces lined in pain,
    Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

    Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
    How you suffered for your sanity,
    How you tried to set them free.
    They would not listen, they did not know how.
    Perhaps they'll listen now.
    For they could not love you,
    But still your love was true.
    And when no hope was left in sight
    On that starry, starry night,
    You took your life, as lovers often do.
    But I could have told you, Vincent,
    This world was never meant for one
    As beautiful as you.

    Starry, starry night.
    Portraits hung in empty halls,
    Frameless head on nameless walls,
    With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
    Like the strangers that you've met,
    The ragged men in the ragged clothes,
    The silver thorn of bloody rose,
    Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

    Now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
    How you suffered for your sanity,
    How you tried to set them free.
    They would not listen, they're not listening still.
    Perhaps they never will...

    On the Vincent thread, we can express what we're feeling and going through without having to go into details.

  • stillajwexelder
    stillajwexelder

    It must have the record for the longest running thread

  • Bumble Bee
    Bumble Bee

    Thanks for explaining that. I've seen the thread off and on over the last couple of years, but never knew what it was about exactly.

    BB

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