there IS a lion in the courtyard !!!

indeed there is.

in the back yard, anyway. wherever ya wanna call that area. there's always some kinda animal out back there, making some kinda point or another.

i just saw that too...ok, i really don't fuckin get it. Stooops!!!

ok, so this far we've had

the dog "devour" eating demo tapes

the eagle, tearing tabloids to shreds

the lion guarding the contracts.

what's next? the ostrich with a smelly nappy?

i think next it'll be a spider monkey throwing poo at a kid with a camera.

I miss the lion when it was in his pocket and ready to roar.

Could it be any weirder or more ulgy, too? I think they got that spider monkey drunk, set him in front of the computer and told him to come up with that crap. He's not throwing poop at a kid with a camera, he's trowing it at US!

NowGirl said:

Hilarious

I never thought my club memebership would help fund the population of a freaking online zoo.

NowGirl said:

oh my goodness


i DO like the little lion animation thingie...i just dunno what we're supposed to take away from it, other than a generic "don't mess with prince or he'll turn into manimal and jack you up" kind of message.

Anxiety said:

I saw Michael Jackson turn into a big cat once...I don't need to see Prince do it, too.

piepie1976 said:

Well said, piepie1976!!! You're not the only one who wishes every now and then he'd listen to his body tonight. Baby Jehovah says it's good for you! It's in the Book of Victor, page 7.
[Edited 2/25/05 19:50pm]

shaomi said:

I am not sure because only prince and the NpGmc knows but I think the lion in the backyard refers to a local story here in LA of a african lion loose in the hills of hollywood and since we all know Prince has a house in the hollywood hills....I think he is trying say that he has the lion guarding his contracts....anyway thats what I think.

daddypop

The lion also could refer to MGM being bought out by Sony.

http://www.variety.com/ar...=1&s=h&p=0

Posted: Mon., Feb. 28, 2005, 7:00pm PT

Payday for MGM exex
Top execs nab multimillion payouts

By BEN FRITZ

Kirk Kerkorian isn't the only one profiting from the sale of MGM. Top execs at the Lion will pocket multimillion-dollar severance packages, the company revealed in its annual report Monday.

CEO and chairman Alex Yemenidjian is being offered a lump sum payment of $6.25 million, while chief operating officer Chris McGurkChris McGurk will get $5.75 million.

They are expected to leave MGM once its $4.8 billion acquisition by Sony and its consortium of investors closes. But the execs each have contracts that end April 30, 2007, meaning they'll have around two years remaining in their deals, assuming the purchase closes this spring as expected.

Buyouts are a little less than double the amount execs earned in 2004. Yemenidjian made a total of $3.63 million in 2004, while McGurk took home $3.34 million.

Both execs' salaries stayed roughly flat from 2004 at $2.5 million for Yemenidjian and $2.3 million for McGurk.

However, the CEO's $1.25 million bonus and COO's $1.04 million bonus were down by several hundred thousand dollars each.

Bonus structure is based on MGM's financial performance, particularly its internally defined targets for free cash flow. Lion generated $192 million in free cash flow in 2003, exceeding its goal, while the $141 million it generated in 2004 was about on-target.

Other top execs at MGM are getting healthy packages as part of the acquisition as well. Senior exec VP William Jones will get $1.79 million and general counsel Jay Rakow is skedded to receive $1.93 million.

Chief financial officer Daniel Taylor will be offered a buyout of $2.5 million for his contract, which ends in June of 2006. But Taylor was recently tapped to become the new prexyprexy of MGM once the acquisition closes, meaning he is likely working out a new contract with Sony, Comcast and the private equity funds who will be his new bosses.

All MGM employees who will lose their jobs as part of the acquisition and have employment contracts -- expected to be more than 1,000 of the Lion's 1,400 employees -- will receive a buyout for remaining time in their deals.

Date in print: Tue., Mar. 1, 2005, Los Angeles

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Instead of some music to download, we get a lion! Wohoooo! Im so happy!

Anxiety said:

MANIMAL - Damn, I remember that programme...its one of those trippy things I thought I had imagined for years!!!