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The song of Dr Freud, was slightly misquoted
It ought to have been
"down repression, up libido."

Of course, edgar. Everyone knows about libido.

Zebrahead Lyrics

Livin' Libido Loco


Enrique played in a band. down at the sand.
He hustled women and worked on his tan.
Drove an iroq camero quadrophonic 8 track stereo.
He was a sharp dressin' suave. cultured and smooth ladies man.

Maria stared in the show.
It's all that she knows.
She loved enrique and bilar and snow.
She knew her lover had others, but her heart was a desparate young soul.
She sold a night to a stranger while searching for her pot of gold.

(chorus)
We can dance to the rhythm, we can dace to the mornin' light.
On a sultury summer night.
The time is right for love.
Livin' libido loco days. (x2)

Arturo led a small gang. a downtown thang.
He loved maria the young bird who sang.
He bought her heart for a night, with some lines at the local disco.
She wore his love on her face, in the back of arturo's limo.

Enrique was quite aware, of maria's afair.
He vowed 'vengence arturo I swear.
He brought his blade to the fight, but they both suffered their final blow.
Now maria's in mourning, as she's left to live life alone.

(chorus)

It's been twenty years past, since maria's been last.
To the disco where she lost her soul.
She wipes a tear from her eye, and she still fights memories of ago.
As her new limo ride let's her in and asks 'how much, let's go.'

(chorus)

How's that for combining Austrian and Spanish, folks?

Well, listeners. Time for me to say goodnight, and I shall do so with a lovely song from our Japanese Sandman:

Yozora o kakeru nagare boshi o ima
Mitsukerare tara nani o inoru darou
Tabitatsu kimi to kawashita yakusoku
Kokoro no naka ni itsumo aru

Nemurenai yoru ni
Kikitai no wa kimi no koe
asahi ga kuru made
Katari akashita
Tonari de muchuu ni hanasu yokogao wa
Kagayaiteita yone?

Yume o ou kimi to mimamoru boku ni
Onaji hoshi no hikari ga furi sosogu
Furi kaerazu ni aruite hoshii to
Namida koraete miokutta
Yozora o kakeru nagare hoshi o ima
Mitsukerare tara nani o inoru darou
Tabi tatsu kimi to kawashita yakusoku
Kokoro no naka ni itsumo aru

Itsu demo tsutsunde
Agerareru boku de itai
Tsunoru samishisa wa
Sotto kakushite
Are kara toki no nagare ga modokashiku
Kanji hajimeta kedo

Mabayui hoshi ni omoi kasanereba
Tsuyoi ai eto kaete yukeru kara
Kimi ga jibun de arunda kiseki mo
Tashika na mono ni kitto naru
Yozora o kakeru nagare boshi o ima
Mitsukerare tara nani o inoru darou
Doko ni itatte tsunagatteiru yo
Kimi no kotoba ga yomigaeru

Yume o ou kimi to mimamoru boku ni
Onaji hoshi no hikari ga furi sosogu
Furi kaerazu ni aruite hoshii to
Namida koraete miokutta
Yozora o kakeru nagare boshi o ima
Mitsukerare tara nani o inoru darou
Tabi tatsu kimi to kawashita yakusoku
Kokoro no naka ni itsumo aru

and the translation:

What shall I wish upon a falling star,
If I can sight one now.
I always keep in mind
The words we had when you left far.

when I have a sleepless night
What I wish to hear Is your voice.
I remember how your side view would shine
as you were rapt in the talk staying up all night.

While the light of stars twinkled down on us,
You would chase a dream as I behold you.
Then holding back my tears,
I sent you off wishing your not looking back.

What shall I wish upon a falling star,
If I can sight one now.
I always keep in mind
The words we had when you left far.

I wish I could always wrap you in a big hug
Showing no sign of my growing loneliness (without you beside me).

And after our separation,
I feel impatient about the pace of passage of time.

When we wish upon a bright star,
It will play a role to strengthen our love.
And even your solitary locus can become solid.

What shall I wish upon a falling star,
If I can sight one now.
I always keep in mind
The words we had when you left far.

While the light of stars twinkled down on us,
You would chase a dream as I behold you.
Then holding back my tears,
I sent you off wishing your not looking back.

What shall I wish upon a falling star,
If I can sight one now.
I always keep in mind
The words we had when you left far.


From Letty with love

I'll sing you a true song of Billy the Kid
I'll sing of some desperate deeds that he did
Way out in New Mexico long long ago
When a man's only chance was his own forty-four.
When Billy the Kid was a very young lad
In old Silver City he went to the bad
Way out in the West with a gun in his hand
At the age of twelve years he did kill his first man.

There's Mexican maidens play guitars and sing
Songs about Billy, their boy bandit king
Ere his young manhood has reached his sad end
With a notch an his pistol for twenty one men!
Was on a sad night when poor Billy died
He said to his friend, "I'm not satisfied
There's twenty one men I have put bullets through
Sheriff Pat Garrett must make twenty two!"

I'll sing you how Billy the Kid met his fate
The bright moon was shinin', the hour was late
Shot down by Pat Garrett who once was his friend
The young outlaw's life is now come to an end.
There's many a man with a face fine and fair
Who start out in life with a chance to be square
Just like poor Billy they wander astray
They'll lose their lives in the very same way!

Mama, take this badge off of me

I can't use it anymore.

It's gettin' dark, too dark for me to see

I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.



Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door



Mama, put my guns in the ground

I can't shoot them anymore.

That long black cloud is comin' down

I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.



Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors. What a nightmare I had last evening. It's all that Freud stuff, I think. <smile>

My, my, our cowboy is up early and singing. Love both those songs, dys. Interesting the truth behind Billy the Kid, but I hate to expose the legendary hero, so I'll just let our listeners have their own dreams. I especially like the Knocking on Heaven's Door, and here's a response from Creedence.

Just got home from Illinois lock the front door oh boy!
Got to sit down take a rest on the porch.
Imagination sets in pretty soon I'm singin'

CHORUS:
Doo doo doo Lookin' out my back door.
There's a giant doing cartwheels a statue wearin' high heels.
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn.
A dinosaur Victrola list'ning to Buck Owens.

CHORUS
Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band.
Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon?
Doo, doo doo.
Wond'rous apparition provided by magician.

CHORUS
Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band.
Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon?
Doo, doo doo.
Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows.

CHORUS
Forward troubles Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn.
Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows.

CHORUS

Teresa Wright
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Muriel Teresa Wright (October 27, 1918 - March 6, 2005) was an Academy Award-winning American actress, known professionally as



Early life

Wright was born in Harlem, New York City and grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey. During her years at Columbia High School, she became seriously interested in acting and spent her summers working in Provincetown theater productions. Following her high school graduation in 1938, she returned to New York and was hired to understudy the role of Emily (played by Dorothy McGuire and later Martha Scott) in Thornton Wilder's Our Town. She took over the role when Martha Scott went to Hollywood to make the film version of the play.


Career

In the fall of 1939, she appeared in Life with Father, playing the role of Mary Skinner for two years. It was there that she was discovered by a talent scout hired by Samuel Goldwyn to find a young actress for the role of Bette Davis' daughter in the 1941 adaptation of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes. She was immediately signed to a five-year Hollywood contract but asserted her seriousness as an actress. Her contract was unique by Hollywood standards because it contained the following clause:

"The aforementioned Teresa Wright shall not be required to pose for photographs in a bathing suit unless she is in the water. Neither may she be photographed running on the beach with her hair flying in the wind. Nor may she pose in any of the following situations: In shorts, playing with a cocker spaniel; digging in a garden; whipping up a meal; attired in firecrackers and holding skyrockets for the Fourth of July; looking insinuatingly at a turkey for Thanksgiving; wearing a bunny cap with long ears for Easter; twinkling on prop snow in a skiing outfit while a fan blows her scarf; assuming an athletic stance while pretending to hit something with a bow and arrow..."

After earning an Academy Award nomination for The Little Foxes, Wright appeared as the wife of Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees and then as Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in Mrs. Miniver. She received two Academy Award nominations that year, for Lead Actress (for Pride of the Yankees) and winning the award for Best Supporting Actress Oscar for (Mrs. Miniver).

In 1943 in the film Shadow of a Doubt, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, she played the innocent girl who discovered that her beloved uncle was a murderer. Other notable films include The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and The Men (1950).

Wright rebelled against the studio system of the time; When Samuel Goldwyn fired her, citing her refusal to publicize a film, she expressed no regret about losing her $5000/week contract: [1]

The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. ... We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children.
After 1959 she worked mainly in television and on the stage. She was nominated for Emmys in 1957 for The Miracle Worker and in 1960 for The Margaret Bourke-White Story. She was in the 1975 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman.

Her more recent movie appearances included a major role in Somewhere in Time and the role of Miss Birdie in John Grisham's The Rainmaker in 1997.

She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 1658 Vine Street and one for television at 6405 Hollywood Blvd.


Private life

Wright was married to writer Niven Busch from 1942-1952; they had two children. She married playwright Robert Anderson in 1959; they later divorced, but maintained a close relationship until the end of her life.

She died of a heart attack at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut at the age of 86.

Nanette Fabray
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Nanette Ruby Bernadette Fabares (born October 27, 1920 in San Diego, California) is an Emmy and Tony Award-winning American actress.

She has appeared in a number of motion pictures as well as on television including Caesar's Hour, One Day at a Time, The Carol Burnett Show and Coach among others. She also had a recurring role on Mary Tyler Moore as Mary's mother, Dottie Richards. She is a winner of three Emmy Awards.

She is the aunt of actress/singer Shelley Fabares. Nanette Fabares changed her name to a phonetic spelling after it was mispronounced as "Fa-bare-ass" by Ed Sullivan. (She told this story in a [1] live performance 8 December 2004).

Fabray's official biography has at times stated that she appeared in Our Gang shorts at the age of seven, although she never appeared in the series. One of her most memorable film appearances was in the musical, The Band Wagon (1953) opposite Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. She and Oscar Levant played a team of scatterbrained screenwriters who try to help a fallen star (Astaire) make his comeback.

Nanette Fabray overcame significant hearing impairment to pursue her career. She is also an advocate for the hearing-impaired.

Nanette Fabray has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Her second husband was screenwriter and director Ranald MacDougall (1957 - 1973); they had one child.

Ruby Dee
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Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an African American actress and activist.

Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, though she grew up in Harlem, New York. A 1945 graduate of Hunter College, with degrees in French and Spanish, Dee made several appearances on Broadway before getting national recognition for her role in the 1950 film, The Jackie Robinson Story. Her acting career has crossed all major forms of media over a span of 8 decades, including films such as A Raisin in the Sun (in which she recreated her stage role as a suffering housewife in the projects) and Edge of the City both opposite Sidney Poitier. During the 1960s, Dee appeared in such politically charged films such as Gone Are the Days and The Incident, which paved the way for young African American filmmakers and actors. She has been nominated for eight Emmy Awards, winning twice for her role in 1990's Decoration Day and for her guest appearance in the China Beach episode, "Skylark", in which her late husband Ossie Davis also appeared.

Ruby Dee and her late husband, actor Ossie Davis, were well-known civil rights activists. Dee is a member of such organizations as CORE, the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Their son is blues musician Guy Davis. Dee and Davis were personal friends of both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, with Davis giving Malcom X's eulogy at his 1965 funeral.

Dee and Davis wrote a joint autobiography titled "With Ossie and Ruby", in which they discussed their political activism and their decision to have an open marriage.[1]

Ruby has survived breast cancer for more than 30 years.

Knocking on Heaven's Door was of course from the film, Pat Garret and Billy the Kid. This song was also on the soundtrack, both songs of course from B Dylan:


There's guns across the river aimin' at ya
Lawman on your trail, he'd like to catch ya
Bounty hunters, too, they'd like to get ya
Billy, they don't like you to be so free.

Campin' out all night on the veranda
Dealin' cards 'til dawn in the hacienda
Up to Boot Hill they'd like to send ya
Billy, don't you turn your back on me.

Playin' around with some sweet senorita
Into her dark hallway she will lead ya
In some lonesome shadows she will greet ya
Billy, you're so far away from home.

There's eyes behind the mirrors in empty places
Bullet holes and scars between the spaces
There's always one more notch and ten more paces
Billy, and you're walkin' all alone.

They say that Pat Garrett's got your number
So sleep with one eye open when you slumber
Every little sound just might be thunder
Thunder from the barrel of his gun.

Guitars will play your grand finale
Down in some Tularosa alley,
Maybe in the Rio Pecos valley
Billy, you're so far away from home.

There's always some new stranger sneakin' glances
Some trigger-happy fool willin' to take chances
And some old whore from San Pedro to make advances
Advances on your spirit and your soul.

The businessmen from Taos want you to go down
They've hired Pat Garrett to force a showdown.
Billy, don't it make ya feel so low-down
To be shot down by the man who was your friend?

Hang on to your woman if you got one
Remember in El Paso, once, you shot one.
She may have been a whore, but she was a hot one
Billy, you been runnin' for so long.

Guitars will play your grand finale
Down in some Tularosa alley
Maybe in the Rio Pecos valley
Billy, you're so far away from home.

John Cleese
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Born
October 27, 1939
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England

John Marwood Cleese (born October 27, 1939 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England) is an English comedian and actor best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for co-writing the TV series Fawlty Towers in which he played Basil Fawlty.

He won the TV Times award for Funniest Man On TV - 1978 / 1979.




Biography

John Cleese was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England to Reginald Francis Cleese and Muriel Cross. His family's surname was previously "Cheese", but his father, an insurance salesman, changed his surname to "Cleese" upon joining the army in 1915. [1]

As a boy, Cleese was educated at Clifton College in Bristol, from which he was expelled for a humorous defacing of school grounds: he used painted footsteps to suggest that the school's statue of Field Marshal Earl Haig had got down from his plinth and gone to the toilet. His talent for comedy progressed with his membership of the Cambridge Footlights Revue while he was studying for a law degree at Downing College at the University of Cambridge. Here he met his future writing partner Graham Chapman. As Cleese's comic reputation flourished, he was soon offered a position as a writer with BBC Radio, working on, amongst others, sketches for The Dick Emery Show. The success of the Footlights Revue led to the recording of a short series of half-hour radio programmes, called I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (which was so popular that the BBC commissioned a regular series with the same title). He then joined the Cambridge Revue, Cambridge Circus, for a tour of New Zealand and Broadway, and decided to stay on in America performing on and off-Broadway, including in the musical Half a Sixpence. It was during this time he met future Python Terry Gilliam and his future wife, American actress Connie Booth, whom he married on February 20, 1968. After his return to England, he started performing as a cast member of the highly successful BBC Radio show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which ran from 1965 to 1974. His fellow cast members were Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, David Hatch and Jo Kendall.

On his return to London in 1965, Cleese and Chapman began writing on The Frost Report, an important landmark in satire and British Comedy in the 1960s. The writing staff chosen for The Frost Report were, in many ways, the finest comedy minds of the 1960s United Kingdom, consisting of many writers and performers who would go on to make names for themselves in comedy. They included future Goodies Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor, and also Frank Muir, Barry Cryer, Marty Feldman, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Dick Vosburgh and future Python members Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. It was whilst working on The Frost Report, in fact, that the future Pythons developed their unique writing styles that would become so significant later. Cleese and Chapman's sketches often involved authority figures (some of which were performed by Cleese). Terry Jones and Michael Palin were both infatuated with filmed scenes that open with idyllic countryside panoramas. Eric Idle was one of those charged with writing David Frost's monologue. It was during this period that Cleese met and befriended influential British comedian Peter Cook.


Cleese (right) unsuccessfully attempting to return his dead parrot, which he bought not half an hour ago, to Michael Palin in And Now For Something Completely Different.Such was the popularity of the series that, in 1966, John Cleese and Graham Chapman were invited to work as writers and performers with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman on At Last the 1948 Show, during which time the Four Yorkshiremen sketch was written by all four writers/performers (the Four Yorkshiremen sketch is now better known as a Monty Python sketch). John Cleese and Graham Chapman also wrote episodes of Doctor in the House. These series were successful and, in 1969, Cleese and Chapman were offered their very own series. However, due to Chapman's alcoholism, Cleese found himself bearing an increasing workload in the partnership and was therefore unenthusiastic about doing a series with just the two of them. He had found working with Michael Palin on The Frost Report an enjoyable experience, and invited him to join the series. Palin had previously been working on Do Not Adjust Your Set, with Eric Idle and Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam doing animations. The four of them had, on the back of the success of Do Not Adjust Your Set, been offered a series for ITV, which they were waiting to begin when Cleese's offer arrived. Palin agreed to work with Cleese and Chapman in the mean time, bringing with him Gilliam, Jones and Idle. This union led to the creation of Monty Python. Many have suggested that this important landmark in comedy was brought about by Cleese's desire to work with Palin, who Cleese has maintained is his favourite Python to work with. Monty Python's Flying Circus ran for four series from October 1969 to December 1974 on BBC. Cleese is particularly remembered for the "Cheese Shop", "The Ministry of Silly Walks", and "Dead Parrot" sketches. Though the programme lasted four series, by the start of series 3, Cleese, who was probably the best known and most experienced member of the group, was growing tired of coping with Chapman's alcoholism. He felt, too, that the show's scripts had declined in quality. For these reasons, he became restless and decided to move on. Though he stayed for the third series, he did not appear in the fourth, and received only a minor writing credit. Cleese returned to the troupe to co-write and co-star in the Monty Python films Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.

In 1971, Connie Booth gave birth to Cynthia Cleese, their only child.

From 1970 to 1973 Cleese also served as rector of the University of St Andrews.[1]

Having left Monty Python, Cleese went on to achieve possibly greater success in the United Kingdom as the neurotic hotel manager Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, which he co-wrote with Connie Booth. The series won widespread critical acclaim and is still considered one of the finest examples of British comedy, having won three BAFTA awards when produced and recently topping the British Film Institute list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. The series also featured Andrew Sachs as the much abused Spanish waiter Manuel ("...he's from Barcelona"), Prunella Scales as Basil's fire-breathing dragon of a wife Sybil, and Booth as waitress Polly. Cleese based Basil Fawlty on a real character, Donald Sinclair, whom he encountered in 1971, when he and the rest of the Monty Python team were staying at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay whilst filming Monty Python's Flying Circus. Cleese was reportedly inspired by Sinclair's mantra of "I could run this hotel just fine, if it weren't for the guests." He later described Sinclair as "the most wonderfully rude man I have ever met", although Mr Sinclair's widow has since said her husband was totally misrepresented in the comedy.

During the Pythons' stay, Sinclair threw Eric Idle's briefcase out of the hotel "in case it contained a bomb", complained about Terry Gilliam's "American" table manners, and threw a bus timetable at another guest after they dared to ask the time of the next bus to town. The series portrayed stereotypical British attitudes towards sex, death, complaining, violence towards employees and unhappy marriages, often simultaneously embodied in Cleese's madcap physical performances. [citation needed]

The first series began on 19 September 1975, and whilst not an instant hit, soon gained momentum. However, the second series did not appear until 1979, by which time Cleese's marriage to Booth had broken down. Despite this the two reprised their writing and performing roles in the second series. Fawlty Towers consisted of only twelve episodes. Cleese and Booth both maintain that this was to avoid compromising the quality of the series.

In 1978 Cleese appeared as guest star on The Muppet Show. Instead of singing along, he showed up a pretend album, his own new vocal record "John Cleese: A Man & His Music", and finally strangled Kermit the Frog.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Cleese focused on film, though he did work with Peter Cook in his one-off TV special Peter Cook and Co. in 1980. In the same year a theatrical piece for TV was released, with Cleese playing a remarkable Petruchio, in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. He also rejoined the Pythons for Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982), and starred in The Secret Policeman's Ball for Amnesty International. He married Barbara Trentham on 15 February 1981. Their daughter Camilla was born in 1984.

In 1988 he wrote and starred in A Fish Called Wanda, as the lead, Archie Leach, along with Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and fellow python Michael Palin. Wanda became the most successful British film ever, and Cleese was nominated for an Academy Award for his script. Cynthia Cleese starred as Leach's daughter.

However, his marriage was in trouble and in 1990 he and Trentham divorced. On 28 December 1992 he married Alyce Faye Eichelberger, his third blonde American actress wife.

Cleese gave a stirring eulogy at Graham Chapman's memorial service, in which he "became the first person ever at a British memorial service to say '****'". Many considered this to be the perfect tribute to his friend and comedic partner. [2]

Cleese also produced and acted in a number of successful business training films, including Meetings, Bloody Meetings and More Bloody Meetings about how to set up and run successful meetings. These were produced by his company Video Arts.

With Robin Skynner, Cleese wrote two books on relationships: Families and how to survive them, and Life and how to survive it. The books are presented as a dialogue between Skynner and Cleese.

In 1996, Cleese declined the British honour of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Cleese has been a strong supporter of the UK Liberal Democrats, and it is believed his refusal was politically motivated.

In 1999, Cleese appeared in the James Bond movie, The World Is Not Enough as Q's assistant, referred to by Bond as R. In 2002, when Cleese reprised his role in Die Another Day, the character was promoted, making Cleese the new quartermaster (Q) of MI6. Cleese will not be reprising this role in the newest James Bond film, Casino Royale, where Daniel Craig replaces Pierce Brosnan in the leading role.

He is currently an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University, his term having been extended until 2006. Although he makes occasional, well-received appearances on the Cornell campus, he lives in the town of Montecito, California. He has also been appointed a Provost's Visiting Professor through 2009.

In a 2005 poll of comedians and comedy insiders The Comedian's Comedian, Cleese's peers showed their appreciation of his talent when he was voted second only to Peter Cook. Also in 2005, a long-standing piece of internet humor, "The Revocation of Independence", was wrongly attributed to Cleese.

John Cleese recently lent his voice to the BioWare video game Jade Empire. His role was that of an "outlander" named Sir Roderick Ponce von Fontlebottom the Magnificent Bastard, stranded in the Imperial City of the Jade Empire. His character is essentially a British colonialist stereotype who refers to the people of the Jade Empire (effectively like the ancient Chinese) as a lot of savages in need of enlightenment. While perhaps a small role in John Cleese's respect, such lines as "half of you can't even grow a decent moustache" and "your idea of honour is outdated, too. (shoots player). PERCIVAL! My towel" were a welcome touch of humour.

He also had a cameo appearance in the computer game Starship Titanic as "The Bomb" (credited as "Kim Bread"), written by Douglas Adams. When the bomb is activated it tells you that, "The ship is now armed and preparing to explode. This will be a fairly large explosion, so you'd best keep back about 22 miles.", and in attempting to disarm it, "Well, you can try that, but it won't work because nobody likes a smartarse!".

In 2003, John also appeared as Lyle Finster in long-running US sitcom Will & Grace. His character eventually ended up having a short-lived marriage to Karen (Megan Mullally) and was Lorraine's (Karen's arch-nemesis, following her affair with Karen's then husband) father.

In 2004, Cleese was credited as co-writer of a DC Comics graphic novel entitled Superman: True Brit. Part of DC's "Elseworlds" line of imaginary stories, True Brit, mostly written by Kim Howard Johnson, suggests what might have happened had Superman's rocket ship landed in Britain, not America.

From 10 November to 9 December 2005, Cleese toured New Zealand with his stage show 'John Cleese ?- His Life, Times and Current Medical Problems'. Cleese described it as "a one man show with several people in it, which pushes the envelope of acceptable behaviour in new and disgusting ways." The show was developed in New York with William Goldman and includes Cleese's daughter Camilla Cleese as a writer and actor (the shows were directed by Australian Bille Brown.) John's assistant of many years, Garry Scott-Irvine, also appeared, and was listed as a co-producer. It then played in universities in California and Arizona from 10 January to 25 March 2006 under the title "Seven Ways to Skin an Ocelot" [3]

In June 2006, whilst promoting a football (soccer) song in which he was featured, entitled "Don't Mention The World Cup", Cleese appears to have claimed that he decided to retire from performing in sitcoms, instead opting to writing a book on the history of comedy and tutoring young comedians.[4] This was an erroneous story, the result of an interview with the Times of London (the piece was not fact checked before printing). In 2007 John will be spending time reading, thinking about his own writing projects, and trying to grow a decent tomato.


Just For Laughs 2006

John Cleese's most recent live comedic performance was at the 2006 Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Just for Laughs comedy festival is a yearly event that gathers some of the world's best comics. John Cleese was host for one of the galas and performed sketches very reminiscent to his Monty Python days. His first sketch was him performing his own eulogy as he promised to kill himself as the grand finale, remarking "Top that Jason Alexander...you bastard." The second sketch was him as the judge of 'Cleese Idol', where contestants from Montreal would be performing his skits, so he could find his successor. He shot the last contestant as well as the special guest host, Ben Mulroney (the host of Canadian Idol). The gala ended with his 'execution', where he asked people to choose the method of execution by text messaging a number (which was fake). The choices were stoning, electric chair, firing squad, hanging and guillotine. The guillotine won, and John Cleese was beheaded just as he was about to say something to the crowd.

Regarding Billy the Kid, his mom operated a laundry in Wichita, Kansas, and was the only woman signatory to the city's incorporation in 1870.

Harry is getting along in years and finds that he is unable to
perform sexually. He finally goes to his doctor who tries a few things,
but nothing seems to work. So the doctor refers him to an American
Indian medicine man.
The medicine man says, "I can cure this." With that said, he throws a white
powder in a flame, and there is a flash with billowing blue smoke.
Then he says, "This is powerful healing but you can only use it once
year. All you have to do is say '123,' and it shall rise for as long as you wish!"
The guy then asks, "What happens when it's over, and I don't want
to continue?" The medicine man replies: "All you or your partner has
to say is 1234, and it will go down. "But be warned, It will not work
again for another year. "
! Harry rushes home, anxious to try out his new powers with powder.
That night he is ready to surprise his wife. He showers, shaves, and
puts on his most exotic shaving lotion and cologne. After he gets
into bed and is lying next to her, he says, "123;" and suddenly he
becomes more aroused than anytime in his life, just as the medicine
man had promised.
His wife, who had been facing away from him, turns over and asks,
"What did you say 123 for?"

Hey, hawkman. Welcome back. Great bio's today and Tico's and edgar's info about William Bonney sent me once again to the archives:

Loved your 123 tale, Boston. That's what a man gets for counting on outsiders to help him get through the night.

Will wait for our Raggedy to appear before commenting further, folks.

The following picture cannot be attached to our bulletin board, folks so we must frame it and put it on our studio desk:



Supposedly, this is the only known picture of Billy the Kid.

Aaron Copland did a "ballet" about Billy, and I found conflicting myths and legends about the man. Personally, I had been told that he was short in the mental department.

edgar, I did NOT realize that the song by dys was about Billy. Thanks, Texas, for that info.

Tico, Neither did I realize about his mom. Amazing, folks.

Good Afternoon.

When Billy the Kid escaped from jail, he killed the deputy, played by Slim Pickens. As a woman stood over the dead body, Knocking on Heaven's Door played.

There she is, folks. Hey, Raggedy. Great collage again today and I suspect that we know all of them:

There's Nanette, Teresa, Ruby, and John. Loved his Monty Python days, folks.

A Song for the Sensitive, the Idiot Song.

From the Album, Monty Python Live at Drury Lane,



How sweet to be an Idiot,
As harmless as a cloud,
Too small to hide the sun
Almost poking fun,
At the warm but insecure untidy crowd.
How sweet to be an idiot,
And dip my brain in joy,
Children laughing at my back,
With no fear of attack,
As much retaliation as a toy.

How sweet to be an idiot, how sweet.

I tiptoed down the street,
Smiled at everyone I meet,
But suddently a scream,
Smashes through my dream,
Fie fye foe fum,
I smell the blood of an asylum,
(Blood of an asylum,
But mother I play so beautifully,
listen. ha ha)
Fie fye foe fum,
I smell the blood of the asylum,
Hey you, you're such a pennant,
You got as much brain as a dead ant,
As much inagination as a carvan sign.

But I still love you, still love you,
Oooh how sweet to be an idiot,
How sweet. how sweet. How sweet.

Sorry, edgar. Missed your remark. Don't think I saw that movie, buddy.

Strange, folks, I searched for a song by Ruby Dee and could NOT find a one.

What's happened to google?

Who's the most important man this country ever knew?
Do you know what politician I have reference to?
Well, it isn't Mr. Bryan, and it isn't Mr. Hughes.
I've got a hunch that to that bunch I'm going to introduce:
(Again you're wrong and to this throng I'm going to Introduce:)
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google bet his horse would win the prize.
When the horses ran that day, Spark Plug ran the other way.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.

Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google had a wife three times his size
She sued Barney for divorce
Now he's living with his horse

Who's the greatest lover that this country ever knew?
And who's the man that Valentino takes his hat off to?
No, it isn't Douglas Fairbanks that the ladies rave about.
When he arrives, who makes the wives chase all their husbands
out?
Why, it's Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google is the guy who never buys.
Women take him out to dine, then he steals the waiter's dime.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.

Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google is the luckiest of guys.
If he fell in to the mud, he'd come up with a diamond stud.
Barney Google with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.

Who's the greatest fire chief this country ever saw?
Who's the man who loves to hear the blazing buildings roar?
Anytime the house is burning, and the flames leap all about,
Say, tell me do, who goes, "kerchoo!" and puts the fire out?
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google, thought his horse could win the prize.
He got odds of ten to eight; Spark Plug came in three days late.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.

Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google tried to enter paradise.
When Saint Peter saw his face, he said, "Go to the other place".
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes

since garrison keillor has made it to the "politics" forum on a2k , i thought it might be appropriate to show the funny side of garrison :wink: .
hbg
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The Ballad of Peanut Butter Lyrics
Saturday, May 7, 2005


One day a child
Came home from football
Where he had fumbled,
Was jeered and booed.
His mother saw that
His heart was breaking
And so she made him
His favorite food.


CHORUS:
She did not make (a bowl of) Garden salad (greens), She made no whole (wheat rolls) Or a pile (of beans). It was a sandwich, on toasted white bread, Of peanut butter creamy style.
The years went by and
He was a loser,
He led a useless
And wretched life,
And yet she never
Criticized him,
She smiled as she
Got out the knife.

CHORUS

Then he decided
On the basis
Of a book that
He read one fall
That his problems
Had resulted
From excessive
Cholesterol.

He had some (great big bowls)
Of garden salad (greens),
He ate those whole (wheat rolls)
And a pile (of beans).
He gave up sandwiches on toasted white bread
With peanut butter creamy style.

That night his dog died,
He smashed his pick-up,
His sweetheart left him,
He lost his hair.
His house caught fire,
He went to prison,
His dear old mother
Came to him there.

She did not bring (him bowls of)
Garden salad (greens),
She brought no whole (wheat rolls)
Or a pile (of beans).
She brought a sandwich on toasted white bread
Of peanut butter creamy style.