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    yeah, well i've pretty much chalked this up as not real. althoughit was a gift, and i did not have to pay for it, i still feel bad for my friend. she was kinda dooped haha.
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    Quote Originally Posted by krakenslayer View Post
    The script itself is clearly a home-made mock-up done at home by someone who's downloaded the script off script-o-rama
    OI! OI! OI!!!!! The digital script was on HPotD first of all! I typed the sucker in!!!!

    + I made a couple of corrections/changes so I could soon prove if it's the HPotD copy. I suspect anyone else out there proclaiming to have a copy has 'borrowed' it from here.

    ps: Same goes with the Day of the Dead (original) script!

    pps: If you look at the script-o-rama version you'll see it has www.homepageofthedead.com in it
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    OI! OI! OI!!!!! The digital script was on HPotD first of all! I typed the sucker in!!!!

    + I made a couple of corrections/changes so I could soon prove if it's the HPotD copy. I suspect anyone else out there proclaiming to have a copy has 'borrowed' it from here.

    ps: Same goes with the Day of the Dead (original) script!

    pps: If you look at the script-o-rama version you'll see it has www.homepageofthedead.com in it
    Everything marked, everything membered, Neil! Very nice

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    Damn Neil that must of taken you a good minute

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    A friend of mine who went to Carnegie Mellon and grew up in Pittsburgh is a diehard fan of Romero and DOTD (this is a dude who puts most to shame with his knowledge and collection of memorabillia) made a photocopy of the original shooting script for DOTD for me. It had numerous spelling errors, had obviously been typed, and the circle around the "C" for the copyright notice on the front page had been handwritten with what looked like a black pen. Since this dude was a rabid fan and collector, and had gotten the script from a professor at CM who was a personal friend of GAR and had received his copy while the shoot was still in progress directly from GAR, I am certain that it was the real deal, albeit photocopied.

    I still have this at home somewhere in one of the many shipping boxes that remain unpacked since my last move, and will dig it out to be sure, but from what I remember about the appearance of my copy which looks nothing like the ebay purchased script in the photo, I am sorry to say that my guess is that this ebay script is completely bogus.
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    Damn now thats an original script

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike70 View Post
    let's compare with a known sig of romero's.



    mucking about with handwriting is one of my hobbies and while i don't pretend to be an "expert" by any means, there are certain features of the signature on trance's script that are similar to philly's.

    the G, A and O are similar. they all 3 have a pretty distinctive sweep (or overhang) beyond where the letter should end (or start). it is the R and the E that don't really match up well to the known signature. the G also has a very large bottom loop in both BUT the G in the known sig has a stop in it, where romero stopped his stroke and started to write again. this stop is missing from trance's. the A is a bit different in trance's - it has a very straight down stroke going into the R (which is nothing like the R in philly's known sig) instead of the curved down stroke that philly's has. the other thing that bothers me about the A is that it has the same curving down stroke in the word "stay" and the word "scared" in philly's. that probably means that that curved downstroke from A into another letter is a very distinctive feature of romero's handwriting. the rest of the letters in "romero" after R all have a very curving bottom to them in the known signature, in trance's they are written in more straight fashion. they have a pretty pronounced downstroke to them instead of the soft curves from one letter to another that the known signature has.

    i think that the sig on trance's is a rather decent fake. though i will say that it is too bad there isn't a T or D on trance's script, not only are those the two most distinctive letters as handwriting goes, they are also the hardest ones to fake because they have, by far, the most interpretations from person to person.
    Dude, you are either a Crim-Justice student, or have studied this subject pretty extensively on your own because no layman would know to interpret documents like that. Cheers brother, I am impressed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yojimbo View Post
    Dude, you are either a Crim-Justice student, or have studied this subject pretty extensively on your own because no layman would know to interpret documents like that. Cheers brother, I am impressed.
    like i said, it is a crazy hobby of mine. i am actually considering getting certified as a document examiner. i'm middle aged, it's time for a career change anyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike70 View Post
    like i said, it is a crazy hobby of mine. i am actually considering getting certified as a document examiner. i'm middle aged, it's time for a career change anyway.

    If you consider 33 to be middle aged, than I must be damn near extinction at 38.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DjfunkmasterG View Post
    If you consider 33 to be middle aged, than I must be damn near extinction at 38.
    I think you'll find that's his buddy list number, old bean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DjfunkmasterG View Post
    If you consider 33 to be middle aged, than I must be damn near extinction at 38.
    No way, dudes. My lifeclock's been flashing red and I've been running from the Sandman for over a decade now.

    Tell me how you feel when you hit 40 and you realize that all those lame ass guys on that putrid "Viva Viagra" commerical are all about your age.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DjfunkmasterG View Post
    If you consider 33 to be middle aged, than I must be damn near extinction at 38.
    i'm 38 as well, DJ and yeah, i consider that to be early middle age.
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