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    Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?

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    Image of choptop choptop
    11/09/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    Good lord I want, and pretty much only because of the HG similarity.
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    11/09/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    One of the classic SNL sketches: the Heaven's Gate members interviewed *after* their suicides, after they've been picked up by aliens and are partying hard.


    [snltranscripts.jt.org]


    Best moment:


    Ted Koppel: Uh-huh.. alright. So, this whole killing yourself thing has really turned out to be a home run for you. Tell me, are there any regrets?


    Marshall Applewhite: Yeahhh.. the castration thing.. I was way off on that one, Ted! It turns out it had nothing to do with anything. In fact, when we got here, everyone just looked at me like, "Applewhite, you nutball!"

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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    11/09/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    Lame.


    Who associates shoes with Heaven's Gate? I associate Heaven's Gate with castration and then shudder as my nads attempt to force their way up into my chest cavity.

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    Image of twDarkflame twDarkflame
    11/09/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    Rediciolous rumour. Uttery nonsense spewed from a random person on the internet with no credability at all.


    On the other hand, I can exclusively tell you all they were dropped because they are working on Nike Air McFly to be released next year!

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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/09/08

    @twDarkflame: But won't they remind everyone of Parkinson's Disease?
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    Image of gonz gonz
    11/09/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    Its kinda funny that that these aren't even the shoes they wore. Heavens Gate wore the Nike Cortez not the Dunk. The Nike Cortez also is known to be a popular shoe for west coast gangs since the 80's. Give Nike about a year and they will release this Dunk colorway under a different name.
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    11/08/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    Also discontinued: Nike Brimstones, footwear of the damned!


    (and official cross-trainer of the day of judgement)

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    Image of rte148 rte148
    11/08/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    Discontinued? D'oh!
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    Image of ralfhutter ralfhutter
    11/08/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    Mass Suicide Nike's. Now I really want a pair.


    Puma needs some Jonestown kicks to compete.

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    Image of UniComp UniComp
    11/08/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    Impersonating cultists is hip now, good luck stopping these.
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    Image of spumco spumco
    11/08/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    Will they cost a five dollar bill and three quarters?
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    11/08/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    maybe they shouldn't have made those cover-up sheets such an awesome color...
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    Image of matthewtoney matthewtoney
    11/08/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    Last chance to evacuate Planet Earth...
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    11/08/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    Did io9 go back to the weird non-linear message system?


    How does it pick which discussions to highlight? There's only five posts so far here... why does it need to start condensing the discussion?

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    Image of gaffeofthecentury gaffeofthecentury
    11/08/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    damn it! i love these dunks. stupid mass suicide people.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    11/08/08

    @gaffeofthecentury: i'm with you 200%.
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    Image of FloraBabar FloraBabar
    11/08/08

    In reply to Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?
    When I lived in San Diego I had a friend who had one of the bunk beds in which the Hale Bopp people died. He used it as a couch in the living room of his house. Apparently the estate where everyone died auctioned off all of the furniture after the incident.
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