When you are down and nearly out... you take your hope where you can find it.Sounds like it's back to hoping for your numbers to come up in the Lottery.
Okay for you Larry!!!Doug I can't see all that is written in picture three,,, does is read I'd love to meet you?
You may be my backhoe expert & mentor... but just remember that you haven't yet been cleared from the suspect list!!! 
Well, more bad news: Further detective work and consultation with handwriting experts has determined that the autograph of M.J. I received is a counterfeit... a blatant fraud.There goes my hope of selling a genuine M.J. autograph and making enough on the sale to buy a new John Deere 410J.
Note below the fraudulent autograph on the photo I received compared to two authenticated photographs of presumably similar vintage.
Not even close.
Dougster
Somebody (I've got CRS) once said "Remember the consequences." I am convinced that my autograph authentication experts were for real... and that's all that matters.Just who are you checking with on authenticity? Web searches? Public web searches? What's gonna happen when your neighbors find out you're a Michael Jackson fan?
Hmmmmm...
I didn't realize anybody was left over there. 
Ha!!!Ted: Be careful
Some private psychotherapist you turned out to be!!! 
: and they probably deserve it 
. Blast the MJ CD's and do the "moonwalk" outside of your house . It could be a variant of my "Snow Dance" . Do it quickly though. It would take me around 2 hours to get there to bail you out . Jay Remember that I live on a hill Jay... and with the current slippery coating of snow out there, any attempt at a moonwalk would probably find me slipping all the way down the driveway and into the street... where I would probably not make a smooth landing. The neighbors would just laugh at me as I crawl back up to the house... looking for the stereo off switch and the Ibuprofen.Dougster
Ted:
Be careful
Now cut that out Paul!Remember, just because someone is paranoid...it does NOT mean there are NOT people out to get him...
I don't believe that anyone is out to "get the old Dougster" except maybe God (with bad luck) and the government (with endless, ever increasing fees and taxes). This M.J. autograph and CD set thang may be a genuine mystery with no one yet willing to step up and take responsibility... but it's not exactly a major threat to my life, health or property. 
Now cut that out Paul!
Dougster
Hmmmmmmm...
I got the CD on eBay, came from Northern California. Got the photo on the internet, printed it out, signed it. On one of my private forums, put out a call for anyone in the Santa Barbara area, one woman who lives in Pennsylvania was going to be in SB for work last week, so I mailed the entire thing to her priority, she flew out here with the package and put it in the mail. Should have been a Santa Barbara postmark on it, that was disappointing that there was none.
Then I just sat back and waited.
Holy cow!!! Thanks Mrs. B! 
-d -d 
it wasn't my idea.
Remember the I had hoped that you would have picked up on my hint about the Mrs, but alas it was not to be.
.......that a very nice person (like Mrs. Brian obviously is) could be driven into taking such extreme and devious measures by her extra-large equipment-crazed husband!!!
In other words, Hollywood Brain still gets the blame no matter what!!!
It was sure fun, though. You had me laughing pretty hard at times. Glad you like the music.Nope Nope Nope!!! You get the blame!!! It's called being anDon't blame me,
Nope Nope Nope!!! You get the blame!!! It's called being an
instigator and co-conspirator!!!
It's actually worse than if you did it all by yourself!!!
At least you could have blamed it on temporary blue tractor insanity (and everyone here would have believed you!!!).
Dougster
Well Dianne... all I can say is that this noble defense of Hollywood Brian's devious antics shows that you are a person of great loyalty and character... but it's crystal clear to me (and others no doubt) that Hollywood Brian must have put you up to it... and so HE still gets the lion's share of the blame!!!Sweetie, believe me when I say Brian isn't nearly that devious. The only little (ha) devil in that man's life, sleeps next to him at night.
His only input was to help me choose a picture to print out.
And, hey, for the record, Michael Jackson is not our neighbor.
Dianne
Well Dianne... all I can say is that this noble defense of Hollywood Brian's devious antics shows that you are a person of great loyalty and character... but it's crystal clear to me (and others no doubt) that Hollywood Brian must have put you up to it... and so HE still gets the lion's share of the blame!!!
Dougster
for you buddy.I am not buying it...You know, positive and negative.
...and neither is anyone else here on NTT!!! 