# Michael Jackson's on Fire **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638 "2002-11-13T22:16:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/21 "2002-11-15T11:39:00Z")
This reminds me of the [Anthea Turner](http://www.funvids.net/videos/Play.asp?Video_ID=34) clip. She’s a very shallow annoying British TV personality. That being said I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/22 "2002-11-15T18:27:47Z")
What’s the story on that Anthea Turner clip? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/23 "2002-11-16T00:22:29Z")
There was some _other_ female British TV personality whose nose collapsed entirely. Might have been due to cocaine use, but I’m reluctant to say for sure. Anyway, I saw a photo of her that was **much** more horrifying than the MJ photo linked here, and that’s saying a lot. **No** division between the nostrils. UK Dopers, ring a bell? (And I would also like to know how well Anthea Turner recovered, if at all.) ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/24 "2002-11-16T00:42:51Z")
Ah, the BBC thoughtfully put up a retrospective of sorts called [The Many Faces of Michael Jackson](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2481467.stm). Quite creepy. I’m old enough to remember the Pepsi commercial during which his hair cuaght fire. His brother were lined up at the front of the stage and he was supposed to have a dramatic entrance at the back, silouetted in the doorway with pyro effects going on behind and beside him. Hairspray is flammable. His scalp got a little roasted, but nothing that left obvious scars. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/25 "2002-11-16T01:11:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alias \* > \*\*What’s the story on that Anthea Turner clip? \*\* I Googled and found some background story. The site that provides the update has some sick and twisted videos of people being maimed and killed, so I’d rather not link to it if the mods are okay with that. I’ll periphrase the general info: It was supposed to be a controlled stunt of that accompanied some on-the-scene reporting of a tournament. The cloth on the back of the truck was impregnated with a type of flash explosive that was to be detonated by the motorcyclist. The motorcyclist couldn’t see Anthea and wasn’t aware that she was sitting on the back of the truck. Presumably/obviously there was a catastrophic mis-cue. She wasn’t hit by the motorcycle – when she did her split-second duck-and-cover, she leaned away from the pyro-effect. Leaning forward she was just barely missed by the bike. The intense flash explosion set her hair and microphone on fire and she sustained second degree burns and temporary hearing loss. Glad to see she’s okay, annoyed to see it’s on “funniest video” sites. (Though she may have been an annoying celebrity, she could have been killed.) ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/26 "2002-11-16T02:18:26Z")
**bordelond** , **Equipoise** is saying that Michael Jackson is reproducing so that he doesn’t have to leave home if he wants kiddie nookie. Of course, that’s a lie, as the kids are neither biologically his nor Debbie What’sherface’s, and that everyone’s being bought off so Psycho Michael can have his baby harem. Twenty years from now, the kids will be insane, write bestselling autobiographies, and off themselves. Or maybe they’ll write their autobiographies first, and then go insane, and then off themselves. Whatever. But despite those years of abuse, they won’t have tried to escape Neverland Ranch or sued anyone. Because they’ll be twisted mindless zombie offspring. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/27 "2002-11-16T15:43:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AudreyK \* > \*\*Of course, that’s a lie, as the kids are neither biologically his nor Debbie What’sherface’s, > \*\* Cite? Aside from the newest child who seems to have just “appeared” (cloning experiment?) the other two were said to have been conceived through artificial insemination, MJ and ex-nurse. Where’s it been established the kids are biologically unrelated to MJ/nurse? Curious minds want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/28 "2002-11-16T16:23:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Compare the [picture](http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20021114/i/1037233470.2617729057.jpg) Corbomite posted above, with url=“[http://photo.towerrecords.com/pulse/graceland/2002/04/onscreen/planet\_of\_the-apes.jpg](http://photo.towerrecords.com/pulse/graceland/2002/04/onscreen/planet_of_the-apes.jpg)”]this. [Here’s a side-by-side comparison of Michael Jackson and Helena Bonham Carter](http://www.thecj2apage.com/uncanny_similarities.html). ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/29 "2002-11-16T18:30:14Z")
Remember this old joke? What Michael Jackson’s favorite charity? The Ignited Negro College Fund. Hee hee. That still kills me after all these years. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/30 "2002-11-16T20:01:16Z")
Can anyone find that site that runs a looping slide show of MJ through his career? It’s like watching a trainwreck to see him change his face through the years. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/31 "2002-11-16T20:08:04Z")
Well, this isn’t the one I was thinking of, but this page has a link to a slideshow that is essentially the same thing: [http://www.nbc4.tv/#](http://www.nbc4.tv/#) ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/32 "2002-11-16T20:57:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\* > [Here’s a side-by-side comparison of Michael Jackson and Helena Bonham Carter](http://www.thecj2apage.com/uncanny_similarities.html). \*\* I think Helena Bonham Carter is much better looking. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/33 "2002-11-16T23:04:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Charmian \* > \*\*Cite? Aside from the newest child who seems to have just “appeared” (cloning experiment?) the other two were said to have been conceived through artificial insemination, MJ and ex-nurse. Where’s it been established the kids are biologically unrelated to MJ/nurse? Curious minds want to know. \*\* Uh, I was mocking **Equipoise** ’s post. If you’ll read his posts, you’ll see that he was the one who implied that the children weren’t the real offspring of the pair when he put ‘mom’ in quotation marks. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/34 "2002-11-16T23:23:10Z")
Wasn’t this around the time that Richard Pryor burned himself freebasing cocaine?\*\* I remember a pretty tasteless joke about how one was done in by Pepsi, the other by Coke. \*\* Sorry, I’d do a search myself, but the DSL connection is really bad tonight for some reason - it’s taking me a freaking minute to load a single page. I really hate Sprint. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/35 "2002-11-16T23:27:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\*There was some _other_ female British TV personality whose nose collapsed entirely. Might have been due to cocaine use, but I’m reluctant to say for sure. Anyway, I saw a photo of her that was **much** more horrifying than the MJ photo linked here, and that’s saying a lot. **No** division between the nostrils. UK Dopers, ring a bell? > \*\* Daniella Westbrook. Big cocaine user, no septum. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/36 "2002-11-16T23:46:09Z")
Thanks **Tansu**. I did a Google search, and I’m **not** going to post a photo of her _sans_ septum, but here’s some [shots](http://www.celebrity-gallery.com/content/pictures/DaniellaWestbrook/daniella1.jpg) of her, intact. Amazing that someone so hot would want to endanger their looks. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/37 "2002-11-17T01:11:17Z")
Not a slideshow, but a great page related to this anyway: [http://anomalies-unlimited.com/Jackson.html](http://anomalies-unlimited.com/Jackson.html) ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638/38 "2002-11-17T01:32:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TigoleBitties \* > \*\*Just how bad off is this guy face wise? > > I heard tales that he really does not have a nose…by that pic I am still unsure. > > The guy would have looked great if he laid off the surgery after the early 80’s…too bad \*\* Apparently the plastic surgeon who used to work on him (the one, I guess, who changed him from a good looking black man to a pretty white woman) has issued a public statement disavowing any role in whatever he’s doing now. Wise move. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-on-fire/136638.md?page=1)