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I was very glad to see Jose get a hit after 7 straight K's in two games. Can't lay off that curve ball away is right. Go Sox!

Also on May 27th that I know Christopher Lee - Hammer Horror film God/Sauraman the White Rachel Carson - ass-kicking environmentalist who wrote Silent Spring (DDT toxicity) Wild Bill Hickok - killed Indians... yippee Henry Kissinger - "Power is the great aphrodisiac." Jamie Oliver - The 'Naked Chef' Cilla Black - Beatle friend and one-time Apple Records recording artist. Odd, she's come up in two threads in two days. And now I can add BE GOOD's Friend's Mother to the list, cool beanz.

See, cognitive ability is the first thing to go...

Many thanks, all, for the warm wishes. Yeah, we old folks do like to get to bed early - but not before the Good Guys are done playing for the night. Hopefully this one is in the bag. And, officially I like to think of it as my 8th annual 29th birthday... 37 just sounds so, well, old. Hopefully my May 27 B-Day Buddy Big Frank will hit a couple out for us tomorrow - he usually plays particularly well on his our birthday - and that will be the icing on the cake. Cheers all!

As a father of two young kids who I know will love this addition, I think it's great.

Paul's moped accident that left him with the chipped tooth and the lip scar landed him in a hospital with an inebriated doctor who attended to his injuries. The poorly fixed lip resulted in a supposed "shaving scar" on supposed faux Paul William Campbell - further PROOF that Paul is dead, man. Rocky was written while hanging out on the Maharishi's roof in Rishikesh, with John and Mr. Mellow Yellow Donovan.

I am valuing (sp?) the Father's statements in their entirety, not just as they pertain to his son. The escalating numbers of people on all sides getting killed for Bush ideology and the country's having to be manipulated (as to the stated reasons for the war) to go along – those are the larger issues he points up. I don't think Nick Berg was going over there without a thought of his own reward, as the father suggests. He was a smart guy with a background in wireless communications and he went over in pursuit of a job lead. If he wanted to go over in a wholly humanitarian capacity, ie, and not looking to make good money while there, there were several ways to have done it. That said, you're right in that he was the one who initially placed himself in harm's way by deciding to go go over, and there were no guarantees on his safety as a result. But the boilover that led to the retaliatory execution of Nick Berg, as stated by the killers, was due to failures of the military at Abu Ghraib and due to the fact that Bush has lost control of the situation.

What a powerful, heart-wrenching, and 100% accurarate statement. "George Bush's ineffective leadership is a weapon of mass destruction."

Whoo Hooo!!

Pissed off chickens.

Arrrgh! How about California? I know it was supposed to be his western song. I think the lyric is Black Mountain hills, not black mining hills, but you are right there is no directional reference to which of the Dakotas is being referenced. Two Rocky-related trivia questions. 1) How does the doctor 'stinking of gin' tie into the whole Paul is Dead hoax mythology? 2) Where was the song written, and what non-Beatle helped come up with the lyrics (uncredited)? Boy, this sure beats doing the work I'm supposed to be doing...

Now all the gangs can unite and finally take out those bastards the Warriors. They killed Sirus, Man!!!

Just giving you grief on the book out of envy... Re the Buddy Holly, Aboz original question merely asks about songs covered and does not delimit the releases to be considered in the answer. I'm sure he did mean songs appearing on official releases during the 1963-1970 period, but this is trivia after all and I was trying to hit the Holly stuff I knew they had done. I'm sure thee are some more things from the Cavern Club era as well. Julia - John's mother as stated earlier - who suffered from depression her whole life, abandoned John, and eventually killed herself. In the Road - Paul and Ringo in Abbay Road studio #3, and I only know that from the bit of the Paul interview on the Hammerhead compilation. Rocky Raccoon - dammit, I can hear that demo in my head and I remembered being tickle when I heard a state other than South Dakota.... Aaargh!!! Illinois or Indiana?!?

I just checked my Anthology 1 CDs and "That'll Be the Day" is right there. So HOW MANY Buddy Holly tunes did the Beatles cover again?

He has a cheaterly book, you see.

Yes it was, well done. Poor dead Mr. Orton's script later became the basis for the the Musical "Up Against It", commissioned by the NY Public Theater (the Shakespear Festival folks), and scored, composed, and libretted (hey I made up a word) by my man Mr. Todd Rundgren. Much Gilbert and Sullivan than Beatles, major Beatle-Head though he is. Great music, a few of the songs appeared on Todd releases, others showed up at concerts (saw him a week ago today and I'm still floating), and I finally got all his demo versions on a Japaneese import CD at great expense off og eBay last month. The working title of the film, now made semi-famous as a Veruca Salt album and Beatles book, was "Eight Arms to Hold You."

So you don't include the 'Beeb' sessions? They did Crying Waiting Hoping for the BBC broadcasts. They also did a buttload of Carl Perkins and Chuck Berry in the BBC sessions and at least 3 Little Richard tunes I can think of (Lucile, Hey! Hey Hey!, Dizzy Miss Lizzy). So unless Aboz is sticking with just EMI/Parlaphone/Capitol/Apple releases, those three all have 3 or more covered by the beatles. I'm going to go with Berry for the most covered of all.

I just saved a bunch of money on auto insurance.

I think Randy Maharishi sounds like a guy that works with his buddy Joe Ghandi down at the auto garage...

Wow Aboz, these are good! Here's what I got off the top of me head: - Who was the first manager of the Beatles? Alan Williams - In what year did the recording of the first Beatles single take place? Going out on a limb, my guess would be "My Bonnie" b/w "The Saints", recorded with Tony Sheridan in 1962. Credited as TS with the Beatles in the UK, but as "TS and the Beat Brothers" in the US release. - What is the name of the only home that was ever shared by all four Beatles and what year did they live in that home together? 57 Green Street, Summer 1963. I don't know if there was another name for it. - What drummer filled in for Ringo on the June 1964 tour of Europe, Hong Kong and Australia? Jimmy Nichol. And this is the missing part of my earlier Ringo's tonsils/Sgt. Pepper question. - Which Beatle song featured the first use of intentional feedback? "I feel Fine". The feedback was not a coke bottle on a guitar amplifier as popular Beatle mythology would have you believe. Who directed Help? Richard Lester, who also did A Hard Day's Night. Trivia back at you. Who was originally hired to write the screenplay for the movie that became Help!, what was the title going to be, and what became of that screenplay??? That's all I can get without digging in to look up the answers. I'd guess Carl Perkins and/or Buddy Holly and/or Chuck Berry and or Little Richard for the thrice covered question, but I have to think about it a bit. Thanks for the questions!!!

Cool, I Hate Clowns is diversifying.

I don't think that is true. I'm sure Hannity, Coulter, Limbaugh, etc., all do similar invited/paid commencement engagements and if you don'y know where their addresses are going to go then you don't know them. Ditto for Doctorow, whose books, while not particularly left-leaning, are open challenges to the reader to sort history and fiction and to examine what they think they know. I've only read Ragtime by him, but I know from that alone that he is not going to give a canned commencement speech.

Rosemary's Baby Sister? That is to say, Mia Farrow's younger sister Prudence, who did the Maharishi thing in 1968 with Mia, Jgger, the lads et al. They mention this in interview material in Anthology i think. I've also heard the Prudence explanation varyingly incorrectly given as both John's fairly tormented mother Julia (positively the inspiration for the White album song of the same name) and his Aunt Mamie who pretty much raised him. Both are bunk, of course. Meatball time, on a related topic: Who was Sexy Saidie?

Wasn't that supposed to read "Does Juggernaut start too many polls on stuff HE can't figure out?"