Jesus is a Beaver

[Dixon Carter Lee]

My kid was having fun thjs morning, making up his own lyrics to a Hymn, substituting "Beaver" for "Savior".

Well, I thought it was funny.

 

[A Desert Rose]

You know that song by Lee Greenwood, "I'm proud to be an American?"

When it first came out, my daughter was pretty little and could not remember the second line of the song so made it up. It went like this:

"I'm proud to be an American where at least I know my name."

By the way, I saw Greenwood once, in the lobby of the Casper (Wyoming) Hilton Hotel. We were all drunk and he laughed at us and waved. What a guy...... LOL

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I still have no idea what the "Pompatus of Love" is supposed to mean.

 

[Lancecastor]

Perhaps he wants to attend Beaver United Methodist Church?

Beaver Church features one of the finest church libraries in the country. It also houses a preschool weekday program and ministers to many through the Prayers-in-the-Night telephone devotionals.

From that original group of Methodists has grown a congregation with many activities for all ages, including active women's, men's and youth groups. There are also many opportunities for prayer, Bible study, music and fellowship.

The United Methodist denomination and our local congregation live in the tradition of the assurance of salvation in Jesus Christ and the heartwarming experience of the Holy Spirit, based on the Bible and strengthened by reason and experience. Although it has been over 260 years since John Wesley had his heartwarming experience which led to the founding of the Methodist Church, the Spirit still works among us today.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

It's a better name than Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow.

God I love the Catholics.

 

[sunstruck]

When I was in high school my ecology prof was telling us how they were controlling rampant bever populations in Colorado by snipping the males.

"Beaver vasectomis guys, does that sound weird to anyone else?"

It was the first time I heard a teacher make a sexual joke. Not the last, but the first.

 

[Lancecastor]

I still have no idea what the "Pompatus of Love" is supposed to mean.

Pompatus of Love.

Vernon Green, leader of the Medallions, died Dec. 24th [2000] in a hospital in Los Angeles. Best known for "The Letter" and "Buick 59," they were the first doo-wop group to record for Dootone Records. Their first release, "Buick 69," (based on Todd Rhodes' double-entendre R&B hit "Rocket 69"), backed with a ballad called "The Letter," was a double-sided West Coast hit. Green's famous recitation on "The Letter" contained the nonsense lyric, "the pulpitudes of love," which was later picked up by Steve Miller as "the pompitudes of love"—which became the title of a 1990s film.

Speculation about "pompatus" was a recurring motif in the script for The Pompatus of Love. While the movie was in postproduction Cryer heard about "The Letter." During a TV interview he said that the song had been written and sung by a member of the Medallions named Vernon Green. Green, still very much alive, was dozing in front of the tube when the mention of his name caught his attention. He immediately contacted Cryer.

Green had never heard "The Joker." Cryer says that when he played it for Green "he laughed his ass off." Green's story:

"You have to remember, I was a very lonely guy at the time. I was only 14 years old, I had just run away from home, and I walked with crutches," Green told Cryer. He scraped by singing songs on the streets of Watts.

One song was "The Letter," Green's attempt to conjure up his dream woman. The mystery words, J.K. ascertained after talking with Green, were "puppetutes" and "pizmotality." (Green wasn't much for writing things down, so the spellings are approximate.)

"Pizmotality described words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved," Green told Cryer. And puppetutes? "A term I coined to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure [thus puppet], who would be my everything and bear my children." Not real PC, but look, it was 1954.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Now I'm really confused. LOL

Thanks, that was interesting.

 

[Lancecastor]

Whoever that Bool dude was, I sure like his ideas on search terms.

 

[A Desert Rose]

Jesus Christ....

we need a Lance answer thread here, one devoted just to Ask Lance.

Amazing.

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[Lancecastor]

Re: Jesus Christ....

we need a Lance answer thread here, one devoted just to Ask Lance.

Amazing.

No, it's not me, it's the Google & Boolean grrls.

I'm just pressing their buttons.

 

[Saytur]

ummm ... was Lee Greenwood involved in the "The Joker" somehow? I'm so confused.

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[Fox]

Our Father who art in heaven, Howard be Your Name...


cheers!
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