The meaning of Morrison's "five to one" ratio followed him to his grave. Snopes explodes some of the myths here. The one about penile manipulation was a new one to me.
Let's add the ratio of Jihadis to Americans in prisoner exchanges to the numerology.
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If you click on the "Doors" tag and scroll down through mine to Lem's first one you get to a very early Lem's Levity blog post.
Lem, are you throwing a 1st anniversary blog party?
I hadn't heard that little ditty in decades. Thanks for reminding me to listen to it again and go "Wha?"
@Sixty: the fade-out banter is the best part. Probably ad libbed.
I was thinking "your ballroom days are over" about three hours ago.
Now I am frightened again.
My wifi still down. A big thank you to all the posters.
No anniversary party for me. I hadn't even realized its been a year since Althouse?
when i woke up this morning the Kennedy quote "pay any price" came to mind. I never thought it would be interpreted the way Obama seems to be interpreting it.
I've been baited!
Personally my guess is that that poets and lit lovers aren't huge mathematicians so he simply chose a numeral that indicated being outnumbered while rhyming with the line about getting out "alive".
Yeah, the "ballroom days" line is a great one, also. Not sure why, but it is.
I think he was good about making longshot associations that still rang true. The translation is "Get off your hipster ass and start a revolution," which back then probably had more to do with ditching the debutante gig and heading to the streets.
Jim and his dad grew up in the South, remember.
Gosh, the answer to my wifi problem was so easy... it's embarrassing.
One of the wifi boxes has a big long battery inside that sometimes needs to be taken out and put back in thereby 'rebooting' the box.
It was that simple.
Jim and his dad grew up in the South, remember.
But his mom was from Wisconsin!
I saw an interesting video interview with his sister and dad the other day. I'll try to find it again.
When I heard about that golfer Michelson possible insider prosecution... I wonder what his political affiliation might be. Did he give money to the wrong political party?
Lem- don't you remember last summer Michelson complained about Calif tax rates and said he might move from San Diego then after some backlash he took it back. So he is probably a conservative.
I do remember that.
The Daily KOS says he is a "Tea Party hero."
He prolly f'd up like Gibson Guitars.
The circumstances surrounding the Taliban capture of the Obama swapped US soldier are not, shall we say, Captain-Americanesk.
BTW, its apparent that there is nobody this administration wont be prepared to sit down with.
Whatever happened to the notions behind preconditions for recognition. The idea that perhaps before being treated as an equal in order to negotiate with the US government you should behave...
I guess it was all a big waste of time. Obama knows best.
BTW. the prisoner swap legitimized the Taliban. otherwise Obama negotiated with terrorist... or, can he have this both ways?
In other words, they are terrorist for the purposes of drone targeting, but, not terrorist when negotiating a POW swap.
The administration needs to explain that.
I mean can we in good conscience, as a nation, continue to support the droning of people we sit down and negotiate with?
A big part of the push for droning was that these people could not and would not be talked out of attacking the United States.
Lem, "-esk" is not the same thing as "-esque", even though they sound the same.
The only difference between the US and a banana republic is that we don't grow bananas.
Was Jim Morrison the guy who choked on his own vomit or was that Mama Cass?
Choked on his own vomit.
That's an odd expression, come to think of it.
I mean, has anybody ever choked on someone else's vomit?
No testing was ever done to prove the source of the vomit upon which Jimi Hendrix choked. My brother has for years suggested that while it was probably Mr. Hendrix', it was not proven, therefore, there is some probability that Jimi Hendrix was murdered. By the nefarious vomit killer.
I hate it when that happens.
Had Cass Elliott shared so much as one bite of her ham sandwich with Karen Carpenter they would both be alive today.
You can take that to the bank.
Eric, one of Spinal Tap's drummers choked to death on vomit, but they never proved whose vomit it was. You can't fingerprint vomit.
But modern forensic techniques could have probably solved the mystery. No doubt cells from the lining of the digestive tract of whoever did the vomiting would be in the vomit. Thus check for DNA of someone who isn't the personable died by vomit. This wouldn't help if the drummer was a cannibal, however. Then all kinds of DNA could turn up in the vomit with no foul play involved. Well, not with the vomit, anyway.
I'm thinking this comment probably mentions vomit more than any other comment in LLL history.
So this is the new vomit benchmark, people. Clean it up.
Whole thread makes me puke.
Whole thread makes me puke.
But enough about AA and her husband....
Chick must still be asleep, as he hasn't taken the bait yet.
Here ya go, Icepick: Clean it up
chick, there still hasn't been a truly appropriate video posted for that song. Maybe you could do something along the line of faking bad.
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