Go raibh mile maith agat...

[jawnbc]

...or "tanks very much" to everyone yesterday for the incredible display of support. Our LJ peeps rawq da house! Word!

Am working on a research proposal, doing admin stuff, and trying to psyche myself up for aquafit 2nite. J'ai trop de chose à faire aussi, mais...fook it. Some frivolity is called for

The Banal, the Boring, the Bodacious: some jawnbc trivia

• I hardly spoke until I was 4. When I started I sounded like Brenda Vaccaro


• I did, however, wave maniacally at everyone everwhere all the time


• I don't remember learning how to swim; I grew up in the ocean


• I accidently pierced my nose when I was 7 or 8. There's still a little divit in the side of it.


• I used to be able to walk on my hands for many, many metres


• I wasn't allowed to read the NY Times when I was a kid, because it was a "communist" paper


• After he released "Imagine" Ma would change the station whenever a Lennon or Beatles song came on


• Given a choice between an orange, a raw potato, or an apple I'll take the prawtee every time


• I did really well in year 8 math because: 1.) I'm good at math; and 2.) the teacher had a hairy chest


• I never had to sneak out as a teen because I never had a curfew. That was bad.


• I did, however, have to sneak the car out, since it was Ma's. That was bad.


• I went to university college less than 100km from the US/Canada border. Never once visited Canada. Only to emigrate there 4 years later.

Comments

[that-dang-otter.livejournal.com]

After he released "Imagine" Ma would change the station whenever a Lennon or Beatles song came on


I'd never paid attention to the lyrics before, but having just looked them up I can see how they would completely scandalize her.

It's amazing to me that these things are heard so pervasively, and never listened to or taken with any seriousness. But having done so, I'm probably never going to hear that song again without cringing at its naivite!

[jawnbc]

It was the explicit "imagine there's no heaven" line that invoked the ban. Catlicks pretty much rely on the notion of heaven--otherwise we're even naughtier!

[logisticslad.livejournal.com]

There was an episode of the TV comedy WKRP in Cincinnati in the 80's that dealt with the same theme. The radio administration wanted the song banned to appease their conservative sponsors and listeners, but the groovy staff won the day. So this reaction to that song was common enough to translate to the public consciousness.

[scream4noreason.livejournal.com]

She didnt like Imagine?Whats wrong with her??

[jawnbc]

see my reply to Tony

[jawnbc]

And there ain't nothin' wrong with my Ma! She's a feicin' saint!!!!!!!!

[scream4noreason.livejournal.com]

There really is no heaven anyway so there.

[jawnbc]

Heaven is your smelly armpit

[smiley-kiley.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious abotu the Times. I think I had family members who felt the same way. I'm guessing your family read the New York Post? Or Newsday?

[jawnbc]

Post and Daily News. And we always watched Eyewitness News with Bill Beutel, Roger Grimsby and Tex Antoine wit da weatha.

[deafdyke.livejournal.com]

I had no idea the NYT even existed until I was a teenager, despite living 13 miles outside of NYC. We were fucking bourgeoisie suburbanites. I was not, however, allowed to read the Village Voice at any time, ever, until I left home. Reason "It's pornographic." Okay....