[Rhodes22-list] Re-naming Boats, Music, and yes, Politics

[Steven Alm]

I say, Let it be!

Or... " will you still hum me;  will you still gum me;  when I'm 64?"

Slim

On 9/17/07, Just bent <j.bulfer at jbtek.com> wrote:
>
>
> Pete,
> I think loyalty to any group makes you blind to corruption & incompetance.
> The military, the catholic church, the police, fire & teachers unions just
> to name a few. Just a suggestion: If you are a vet and served honorably,
> be
> proud of it but don't assume all vets serve honorably just because they
> volunteer.
>
> Jb
>
>
>
> petelargo wrote:
> >
> > It's 2007 and we are still continuing with the character assignation
> > originated by service dodger ROVE on a veteran who actually volunteered
> to
> > serve our country in Nam? Those of us who were there know why people
> went
> > into the 'guard' with daddy's help, to avoid real active military
> service.
> > Just a suggestion: If you are a vet, always best not to eat your own.
> >
> >
> > Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> >>
> >> This is just cruel, but funny.  Brad
> >>
> >> -----------------------------
> >>
> >> Lt. Kerry's Lonely Hearts Club Band
> >>  By Howie Carr  |   Sunday, September 16, 2007  |
> >> http://www.bostonherald.com  |
> >> Columnists<http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/>
> >>
> >> If you thought Scaramouche was a pretentious name for Sen. John Forbes
> >> Kerry
> >> to give his 42-foot Nantucket gigolo boat, he's gone and topped
> himself.
> >>
> >> Liveshot has scuttled the name Scaramouche and rechristened it . . .
> Let
> >> It
> >> Be.
> >>
> >> That's right, the Beatles song. From Freddie Mercury to John Lennon.
> I'm
> >> telling you, you cannot make this stuff up.
> >>
> >> Why "Let It Be?" My theory is the more appropriate Lennon-McCartney
> >> titles
> >> were taken: "Nowhere Man" and "I'm a Loser." Not to mention "Fool on
> the
> >> Hill."
> >>
> >> This momentous nautical event happened last November, but apparently
> >> nobody
> >> noticed the official filing with the Coast Guard until now. The
> question
> >> is,
> >> Why change the name? A call to Kerry's Boston office asking if there
> will
> >> be
> >> an answer (a line from the song, see?) was responded to with a brief
> >> e-mail:"I have no idea why he changed the name."
> >>
> >> But I do. First, though, we must stipulate the junior senator's
> >> accomplishments. He is without doubt America's most successful gigolo.
> He
> >> has stalked not one but two heiresses worth hundreds of millions. To
> >> *John
> >> Kerry* <http://www.bostonherald.com/search/?topic=John+Kerry> I say
> with
> >> awe: "Baby You're a Rich Man."
> >>
> >> Thanks to your loaded old gold-digging second wife, that is.
> >>
> >> "Can't Buy Me Love" indeed. Mama T Heinz Kerry did exactly that. The
> >> first
> >> time Sen. Kerry realized how much dough she had, he began humming, "Got
> >> to
> >> Get You Into My Life." When he saw her standing there, Kerry wanted to
> >> hold
> >> her hand. Or at least her bank book. When she said yes, he was feeling
> >> glad
> >> all over.
> >>
> >> Soon she was singing, "Baby You Can Drive My Car." Or, more precisely,
> >> her
> >> SUVs, all five or six of them, one for every mansion, which are located
> >> here
> >> there and everywhere. She gave him a ticket to ride - on her $35
> million
> >> Gulfstream jet. She cut Liveshot in on 19 Louisburg Square on Beacon
> Hill
> >> and presented him with that multimillion-dollar painting to call his
> own.
> >> And now, with a little help from his (very few) friends, Kerry hangs on
> >> to
> >> this do-nothing job in the Senate. One tune he never has to croon to
> Mrs.
> >> Heinz, er Kerry, er, Heinz-Kerry, is "You Never Give Me Your Money."
> >>
> >> The Scaramouche, a Hinckley power boat that gets less than one mile per
> >> gallon of fuel, was just another boytoy toy Mama T bought him in 2002
> >> with
> >> money from her first husband's trust fund. Being John Kerry, he
> probably
> >> decided on the name Scaramouche without doing any research beyond
> hearing
> >> the Queen tune on an oldies radio station.
> >>
> >> Later on, everybody checked out the real definition of Scaramouche.
> >> Here's
> >> one from "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable": "A stock character
> in
> >> Italian farce. . . . A braggart and a fool, very valiant in words, but
> a
> >> poltroon."
> >>
> >>>From "Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia": "A braggart soldier."
> >>
> >> Well, Liveshot, if the Docksider fits. . .
> >>
> >> When the 2004 campaign heated up, the Scaramouche was sent to dry dock,
> >> the
> >> Witness Protection Program of boats. Now it's back and John apparently
> >> wanted a lame new name to reflect his latest boring hobby, the acoustic
> >> guitar.
> >>
> >> "While My Guitar Gently Weeps?" Not quite. Those weeping are the poor
> >> fools
> >> forced to endure a set of John singing those wonderful protest songs of
> >> his
> >> '60s youth. "Blowing in the Wind," you know, like a wind turbine in
> >> Nantucket Sound. Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Mostly to the Sun
> >> Belt,
> >> to escape the high taxes imposed on them in Massachusetts by the likes
> of
> >> John Kerry.
> >>
> >> But why rename the boat Let It Be? Well, he couldn't take "Yellow
> >> Submarine." That's Ted Kennedy's song.
> >>
> >> "When I'm 64?" No way. I mean, that's how old Kerry will be on his next
> >> birthday, Dec. 11.
> >>
> >> But don't worry, John. Even 64-year-old gigolos are still needed, at
> >> least
> >> as long as they can keep their hands off the younger local talent, if
> you
> >> know what I mean. If you ever get caught, though, it'll be
> hello-goodbye,
> >> mostly goodbye. One again, you'll be nothing more than a day tripper on
> >> the
> >> long and winding road, just like after you dumped your first heiress
> >> wife.
> >> What was her name? Julia?
> >> Article URL:
> >>
> http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1031798
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