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10:40 am
September 1, 2010
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Get out your peanuts…
"Jason, Grant and the rest of the TAPS team pay a visit to Pennsylvania to investigate the possibility of paranormal activity inside the labyrinth of underground passages and eerie buildings of the Philadelphia Zoo, originally built in the late 1800s."
You know, we might get parrots in GH afterall. We may also get a bunch of EVPs that sound suspiciously like tigers growling, birds screeching, etc. I think the potential for contamination might be pretty good.
I've been assured, though, that the ghosts are not of animals, except possibly that of one mutilated cow.
Anyone else miss the old days of them helping families in actual homes?
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12:53 pm
September 1, 2010
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Nosfer said:
Anyone else miss the old days of them helping families in actual homes?
where are the possibilities of kickbacks or marketing if you stick with families?
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12:56 pm
September 1, 2010
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Nosfer asked: "Anyone else miss the old days of them helping families in actual homes?"
"Hi! We're TAPS and we're here to…ooooo….monkeys! Monkeys are funny! What? Actually go to someone's home? Why? Do they have monkeys? There's a theory that ghosts love monkeys. So we have to be where the monkeys are because where there are monkeys…there are ghosts. Wait! What was that?!? I just got hit by a peanut. Hello? Hello? Is there somebody there? Oh…it was a monkey? Monkeys are funny. I guess we debunked that one. Take THAT skeptics!"
It would be funnier if it wasn't so close to the truth…
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1:18 pm
September 1, 2010
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Revenant said:
"Hi! We're TAPS and we're here to…ooooo….monkeys!
Alright, I will confess to what scene was playing through my head when I read that sentence…
Picture Dug the Dog from the movie "Up" Only, he has Grant's head instead of a dog's head. Then, instead of "Squirrel!" it's "Monkeys!" and you'll start to see the warped sense of humor that I call my own 
Awaba said:
where are the possibilities of kickbacks or marketing if you stick with families?
True. Hmmmm, Kickbacks…Tonight, each GH member walks away taking a shiny, brand new monkey with him! Well, I suppose attempting to trigger an economic inflow to a staggering business is a form of helping, though not in the way it was originally established at the beginning of the series.
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1:37 pm
September 1, 2010
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Revenant said:
Nosfer asked: "Anyone else miss the old days of them helping families in actual homes?"
"Hi! We're TAPS and we're here to…ooooo….monkeys! Monkeys are funny! What? Actually go to someone's home? Why? Do they have monkeys? There's a theory that ghosts love monkeys. So we have to be where the monkeys are because where there are monkeys…there are ghosts. Wait! What was that?!? I just got hit by a peanut. Hello? Hello? Is there somebody there? Oh…it was a monkey? Monkeys are funny. I guess we debunked that one. Take THAT skeptics!"
It would be funnier if it wasn't so close to the truth…
Oh my gosh, you all crack me up.I can picture Stango saying that. Please tell me this is one sick April Fools joke.Oh wait,slaps hand to forehead and says,it's not even halloween!You all have to be kidding me.Who in heavens name in their right mind would investigate a zoo???!!! Cheez, for crying out loud people at least go to Bachelor's Grove Cemetery or Chickamagua battlefield where old Green Eyes hangs out.You can find all kinds of dead people, especially a battlefield.Wonder how much the zoo slipped them under the table to do this one, or rather slipped to Pilgrim. It was nicer when they did the family homes, as there are people who really do need help,course they don't wave cash in GH's face.That's why they do all these businesses and places like that.
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2:36 pm
September 1, 2010
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Awaba
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Tonight! the team from TAPS investigate the historic Chickamagua battlefield petting zoo….
"Did you…???"
"What the frack?!"
"Something just licked my face!!!!!"
Is the petting zoo a haven for demon dogs? Or are the dogs of war – undead?
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3:32 pm
September 1, 2010
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If Steve is there we'll find out if monkees are on his list of things he's afraid of . And see what stupid prank he'll pull on the ever gullible Tango .
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4:07 pm
September 1, 2010
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Coincidental timing or deeper, hidden, conspiracy…TAPS investigates –> House opens for tours?
For years, visitors at the Philadelphia Zoo have been walking right by the funny little house known as The Solitude. It's been locked up, easy to miss, especially when the boxwood hedges were six feet tall.
But no more. After decades of being used by the zoo for everything from a snake exhibit in the parlor to executive offices in the library, The Solitude is well on its way to inviting company over. Come September, after $500,000 in renovations that include substantial hedge-trimming, the house will be open for group tours.
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6:14 pm
September 1, 2010
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blinddog
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experts!?…EXPERTS!?…EXPERTS!?
Ten minutes into show and we already have "Did you hear that".
One can only hope the monkeys are well prepared with abundant poo to critique GH.
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Double tap to the head. Don't become Undead.
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6:25 pm
September 1, 2010
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blinddog
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Prehistoric caterpillars, as big as dinosaurs?
That would make for one big f**king butterfly.
Changing channels, my stupid limit has been filled for the evening.
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Double tap to the head. Don't become Undead.
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7:57 pm
September 1, 2010
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It's less interesting to me when it's not a private home, but at least then it's a victimless crime (except us). At least they're not misleading a fam-
MONKEYS!!
Oh, sorry.
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7:57 pm
September 1, 2010
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Kris is 'alone' in the tunnel and has the sensation of something catching her hair or whatever she called it. While she is describing this, take a look at her right (or our left) front….chest level…by the crook of her arm.
Notice anything? Something big and crawling perhaps? I am going to suggest that it either fell into her hair or was crawling in her hair and that was what she felt…and then when she brushed her hair and was moving trying to figure out what it was, it fell or crawled down onto her front.
Funny how they didn't notice that in review…or do they really review?
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11:18 pm
September 1, 2010
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Revenant
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I thought that the skeptics were the close-minded ones…
At the very beginning of the episode, they show J&G in the black ghost-mobile talking on the walkies. The dynamic duo want to know specifics about the zoo. Grant asks Kris "Are they seeing dead animals?" Kris really laughs and barely gets out "No, no dead animals." Why? Because animals becoming ghosts would just be silly. Ludicrous. Insane. That's just so out there that one has to laugh. Humans becoming ghosts? Yes! Of course! Why even question that?
Did anyone else see the irony in that?
One concept is laughable. The other concept…very serious.
Why are we the close-minded ones again?
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11:31 pm
September 1, 2010
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The crawling entity is present even before the hair tug so it must not be the culprit. On review, her hair seems to 'stick' a bit as she ducks when she has the tug sensation…there is one section of hair that appears to come down later so perhaps it did get caught on something or we are seeing it 'grabbed'
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7:40 am
September 2, 2010
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The other thing that comes to mind is dripping water from the tunnel falling on her head.
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10:14 am
September 2, 2010
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I've asked this before on other sites but never have received an answer. I've seen the comments poking fun at how they (GH, GHI, etc) use the phrases "Did you hear that", "did you see that?" and "what was that"…ibut n all honestly…what ELSE are they supposed to say? If you were investigating with a another person and you heard something, wouldn't you ask the person you are with "did you hear that?" Or is there some scientific term they are supposed to be using? I understand being sceptical and questioning what is going on, but picking on them for something as commonly used as those phrases just seems rather childish. Yes it is amusing at first to hear "what the frick?" and yes it can get old but at least Grant isn't using langauge that has to be bleeped out. So that's another thing I can't understand why they are being critized for…using language that doesn't require sensoring!
Someone…anyone??
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10:25 am
September 2, 2010
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It's not the "did you see that" phrase in and of itself, it's that it is so very rarely ever backed up by any evidence whatsoever. Witness KJ's declaration of seeing something down the hall last week…something that would have blocked the light of the window at the end of the hall, yet we see nothing on camera…and the number of times this happens is enormous.
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1:40 pm
September 2, 2010
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Trust me.
If Grant was confronted by an actual ghost…"What the frick" would not be what we hear.
As I said, trust me.
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3:05 pm
September 2, 2010
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Did anybody count how many times they said " The solitude house " ? sounded to me like they were getting in as many plugs as possible .
Wasn't Grants saying " What the fetch ?
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