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January 7, 2025 at 10:22 pm
(January 7, 2025 at 9:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^And convicted child molester.
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I didn't know that, either. I don't think I have any of their music anymore, but that's not why.
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January 8, 2025 at 1:29 am
(January 7, 2025 at 9:46 pm)Silver Wrote: Puff, the Magic Dragon, sounds like a euphemism for smoking pot.
I think that's a case of seeing something that is not there. The song is about the loss of childhood innocence which is just the kind of thing folk songs address.
The child molestation thing is definitely darker. He seemed repented and even Jimmy Carter gave him a pardon. That doesn't excuse him but we are all imperfect. I'm willing to give him a pass. Not that I am qualified as a moral arbiter. It's just my gut feeling that this was a guy who's slate was relatively clean at the end. He wasn't a saint but few if any of us are.
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January 8, 2025 at 1:41 am
(January 7, 2025 at 9:46 pm)Silver Wrote: Puff, the Magic Dragon, sounds like a euphemism for smoking pot.
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January 8, 2025 at 11:35 am
(January 8, 2025 at 1:29 am)AFTT47 Wrote: (January 7, 2025 at 9:46 pm)Silver Wrote: Puff, the Magic Dragon, sounds like a euphemism for smoking pot.
I think that's a case of seeing something that is not there. The song is about the loss of childhood innocence which is just the kind of thing folk songs address.
The child molestation thing is definitely darker. He seemed repented and even Jimmy Carter gave him a pardon. That doesn't excuse him but we are all imperfect. I'm willing to give him a pass. Not that I am qualified as a moral arbiter. It's just my gut feeling that this was a guy who's slate was relatively clean at the end. He wasn't a saint but few if any of us are.
According to sources, he got a handy from a 14 year old groupie. He was charged with and convicted of ‘taking improper liberties’. He was lucky not to be charged with statutory rape.
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January 10, 2025 at 6:04 am
We missed this one:
Anita Bryant American singer, orange juice pitchwoman, and rabid homophobe assumed room temperature at 84.
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January 11, 2025 at 5:17 am
Sam Moore, of Sam and Dave, dead at 89. He was a soul man.
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Man, now we’ll never get a continuation of that scene from Inland Empire
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(January 7, 2025 at 10:22 pm)Fireball Wrote: (January 7, 2025 at 9:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^And convicted child molester.
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I didn't know that, either. I don't think I have any of their music anymore, but that's not why. Because the Kingston Trio are objectively the better early-60s folk trio?
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(Yesterday at 5:49 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: (January 7, 2025 at 10:22 pm)Fireball Wrote: I didn't know that, either. I don't think I have any of their music anymore, but that's not why. Because the Kingston Trio are objectively the better early-60s folk trio?
<riffles thru iPod> Hmm, don't have anything by them, either.
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