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John Lennon would have been 65

LoKyBuckeye

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Technically I'm about 30 minutes late as his birthday was Sunday but Lennon was no doubt one of the greatest and most inspirational song writers of all time. The Beatles were before my time but are one of my favorite bands.... "Imagine" what Lennon would have been able to do if he were still alive. OAR released their new CD this week and it has a great song about John on it called Dakota....


Dakota

I had a dream about you
It was December in the afternoon
You’re something pretty and cool
Signing records as you’re passing through

You saw everyone as an angel
But what about the thieves?
Who don’t know what do
And don’t know who to be
You saw everyone as an angel
But what about the thief?
Who took away from you
He took away from you

If you just kept walking on your way
If you just kept walking on your way
If you just kept walking on, walking on, walking on your way

Behind the archway lies a thief
Awaiting double fantasy
He’s something evil underneath
Outside Dakota died the symphony

I think everyone has a devil waiting in the wings
When you don’t know what to do
And you don’t know who to be
You saw everyone as an angel
But what about the thief?
Who took away from you
Took away from you

If you just kept walking on your way
If you just kept walking on your way
If you just kept walking on, walking on, walking on your way

Maybe this is just a nightmare
And I will wake up
We all will wake up
Maybe this is just a nightmare
December afternoons they took away from you

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Ahh yes. So sad to think about that. He was also before my time, but I really like all The Beatles and his solo music as well. He is probably the greatest song writer of all time, it would be so cool to see how he would be today.

Oddly enough, I believe one of his sons (I think the youngest) was also born on October 9th. He was also murdered on December 8th, the birthday of another rock legend, Jim Morrison.
 
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I try to take a walk to the Dakota every time I’m in NYC. There’s still a surreal sense of sadness that overcomes me when I walk by the entrance and look into the tunnel where he was shot (I was 13 at the time and still remember it like yesterday). Then I’ll walk across the street to Strawberry Fields in Central Park and read the inscriptions and dedications on the benches by the Imagine circle – that memorial is just so peaceful in busy NYC and a fitting tribute to a great musician.
 
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I can count the things that Lennon set down on Vinyl that fail to please in some fashion or other on zero fingers.

Taken out by a nut job.

Who was obsessed with an actress.

Wife and I were both stunned and shocked when we heard the news of his passing - one of the sadder days of our lives together.
 
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Re: (BB73) So Script, that was before inflatable dolls were invented? Isn't vinyl a little rough on the schlong? :biggrin:

Ha....Ha....
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I think the inflatable dolls have been around for longer than Beatle records. I "googled" them and found an interesting article where Hitler wanted some for his SS soldiers:

Hitler: Father of sex doll?

Italian newspaper 'Corriere della Sera' says Nazi dictator ordered production of inflatable sex dolls for S.S. soldiers; doll would be blonde, blue-eyed with large lips and breasts
By Nir Magal

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The doll was went meant to serve the sexual needs of the German fighting man, who might otherwise go to brothels and contract a sexual transmitted disease – or worse, have sex with non-Aryan women and thus pollute the race.

The story of the sex doll first appeared in a Norwegian newspaper, which said that Hitler himself provided the measurements and design for the doll: "She should be a natural size with a pretty woman's appearance with white skin, blonde hair, blue eyes, 1.76 meters (5 feet, nine inches) high, with large lips and breasts."

According to the project, which was classified as "top secret," soldiers would inflate up the doll when feeling the urge, and it would meet their sexual needs.

The officer directly responsible for the sex doll project was S.S. commander Heinrich Himmler.

Perfecting the plastic woman

According to another report, Dr. Rudolf Chargeheimer, a psychiatrist appointed by Himmler to help develop the prototype, wrote that "the purpose and goal of the dolls is to relieve our soldiers. They have to fight and not to mingle with 'foreign women.'"

"However," wrote Chargeheimer, "no real men will prefer a doll to a real woman until our technicians meet the following quality standards: The synthetic flesh has to feel the same like real flesh. The doll’s body should be as agile and moveable as the real body. The doll’s organ should feel absolutely realistic.”

The plan was never put into action because the factory that was supposed to manufacture the sex doll was in the city of Dresden, which was bombed by the Allies. And so Hitler never got to see his inflatable girls put to use.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3104790,00.html
 
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The bombing of Dresden was even more devastating that I knew!

Reminds me of this old WW2 ditty:

Hitler, he only has one ball,
Goering has two, but very small,
Himmler, has somthing sim'lar,
and Dr. Goebbels has no balls at all!
 
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John Lennon would have been 65.......and it is impossible for me to care less.

annonymous ding said:
then why the fuck post?

Um......because I can.


Edit: Yoko, is that you?.....there must be a Lennon-worshiper on this site or something because I apparently am pissing someone off by stating that I don't care (i.e. yes, it is a tragedy that a man's life is ended shortly, but in the bigger scheme of things, he didn't mean anything to me, so why should I care more about him than anyone else that who is murdered?).
 
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Perhaps he inspired/influenced a musician whose work you enjoy. His work touched a lot of people.

I understand that his work touched some people, but does that mean I have to automatically show reverence to him? I guess I didn't realize he was above being poked fun at (however lame the attempt of mine was....of course, I wasn't really poking fun at Lennon, but his followers).
 
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I understand that his work touched some people, but does that mean I have to automatically show reverence to him? I guess I didn't realize he was above being poked fun at (however lame the attempt of mine was....of course, I wasn't really poking fun at Lennon, but his followers).

bgrad,

I thought your original post was hilarious.
 
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I wasn't really poking fun at Lennon, but his followers

I'm not sure I'd call myself a "follower" but I simply made the post because John Lennon is a name everyone knows. I could care less about the fact that you care less about the fact that he would have turned 65 last week, :p
 
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