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igotthisguitar
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Ya-ta Boy
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| I actually remember that (but then I also remember what I was doing when I heard Kennedy was shot). |
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Moldy Rutabaga
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I was a little boy, reading a comic book on the sofa in the living room and listening to the radio, which was one of those old giant 50s furniture stereos. The newsreport said that Lennon was shot, and a little while later the reader came back to say he was dead. At the time I didn't know clearly who Lennon was, but within a year I had bought all of the Beatles' albums...
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Swiss James
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:06 am Post subject: |
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| I was colouring in a He-Man book, wondering when tea would be ready |
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khyber
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| i was probably watching tv..... |
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mindmetoo
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I hate the Beatles. If that Mark David Chapman guy didn't tag Lennon I would have done it myself...
That said, I was in my high school's computer room when I heard. We were hunkered over some PET computers playing some adventure game loaded by a tape drive... |
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igotthisguitar
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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I clearly remember being just a kid laying in bed listening to CBC radio, as i did most nights, when the tragick news broke.
God ... so sad ... such a waste ...
http://www.total411.info/1208052.mp3
http://www.total411.info/1208051.mp3
From Larry King Live Weekend
(Interviewed Dec 8th,1992 / Broadcast September 2000)
KING: All right, who was Mark David Chapman?
CHAPMAN: On December 8, 1980 Mark David Chapman was a very confused person. He was literally living inside of a paperback novel, J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." He was vacillating between suicide, between catching the first taxi home, back to Hawaii, between killing, as you said, an icon.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/30/lklw.00.html
http://www.mackwhite.com/lennon.html
http://www.total411.info/2005/12/photo-is-this-lennons-real-assassin.html |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| This one is pretty slimy, igot. Slimy. |
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igotthisguitar
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Ya-ta Boy
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You are agreeing that accusing World Vision of being a CIA cover is slimy?
Hallelujah! |
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Bee Positive
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
You are agreeing that accusing World Vision of being a CIA cover is slimy?
Hallelujah! |
A book that absolutely NAILS some of these US missionary groups on their CIA ties is _The Missionaries_ by Norman Lewis ( http://tinyurl.com/d28mw ).
For more on Chapman, World Vision, and the CIA, you can hear John Judge speaking on Blackopradio.com (last week's show, now archived as show #250) here: http://www.blackopradio.com/inc_archives2005.html .
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rapier
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Some hippy made a song about strawberries? hardly beats beethoven now does it.
Whats the big deal? it is the height o decadent american civilisation to invent a cultural idol out of a nonce who smoked pot and obviously knew little about the reality of politics, economics, or religion.
Some spliffed up kid from the grim norf of England a world superstar??give me a break.
And Lee harvey oswald was another idiot for killing the guy.
listen people.
80,100 years back westerners had real heroes to worship. Yes, your grandfather pored over pictures and stories of Napoleon, nelson, drake, or Joan of Arc. They wanted to emulate real bravery and genius. people who made sacrifices and changed the world. they had genuine role models.
Not a silly guy from the North of england. who cares? I don't. there was better music before him, and after him. F**k the 1960's.
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Bee Positive
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| rapier wrote: |
Some hippy made a song about strawberries? hardly beats beethoven now does it.
Whats the big deal? it is the height o decadent american civilisation to invent a cultural idol out of a nonce who smoked pot and obviously knew little about the reality of politics, economics, or religion.
Some spliffed up kid from the grim norf of England a world superstar??give me a break.
And Lee harvey oswald was another idiot for killing the guy.
listen people.
80,100 years back westerners had real heroes to worship. Yes, your grandfather pored over pictures and stories of Napoleon, nelson, drake, or Joan of Arc. They wanted to emulate real bravery and genius. people who made sacrifices and changed the world. they had genuine role models.
Not a silly guy from the North of england. who cares? I don't. there was better music before him, and after him. F**k the 1960's. wer'e better than that. |
Napoleon, Nelson, Drake, or Joan of Arc . . .
Oh, I get it!
"Real heroes" start wars, or at least direct them, or at the very least sail clear round the world "looting Spanish ships . . . along the way" ( http://tinyurl.com/7z6zs ).
In contrast, a guy who writes music, sings a bit, and somehow never succeeds in killing anyone (or even looting a single galleon!) . . .
Is clearly a loser.
Thanks for clarifying our world so nicely!
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desultude
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| rapier wrote: |
Some hippy made a song about strawberries? hardly beats beethoven now does it.
Whats the big deal? it is the height o decadent american civilisation to invent a cultural idol out of a nonce who smoked pot and obviously knew little about the reality of politics, economics, or religion.
Some spliffed up kid from the grim norf of England a world superstar??give me a break.
And Lee harvey oswald was another idiot for killing the guy.
listen people.
80,100 years back westerners had real heroes to worship. Yes, your grandfather pored over pictures and stories of Napoleon, nelson, drake, or Joan of Arc. They wanted to emulate real bravery and genius. people who made sacrifices and changed the world. they had genuine role models.
Not a silly guy from the North of england. who cares? I don't. there was better music before him, and after him. F**k the 1960's. wer'e better than that. |
Oswald killed Lennon.  
Oh, and, no, you're not- better than that, that is.
I'm not going to go on some rant about how great the sixties were, but at least a lot of us were actively trying to change things, no matter how misguided some of our efforts were. And posting on a message board about the environmental end of the world is not really "doing something".
I look at the lobotomized, consumerized, go along, believe anything, lockstep of a lot of people in the U.S. today, and I have to think that the chaos of the 60's was vastly superior.
May you live in interesting times, indeed. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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And Lee harvey oswald was another idiot for killing the guy.
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Perhaps this is some of rapier's rapier wit. |
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