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WTF of the Week: Paul McCartney Wants a Free T-Shirt
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| December 17, 2013 1:48 PM
| by Michael Gallucci
Posted on 12/17/2013 2:03:33 PM PST by a fool in paradise
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Paul McCartney at the Sixers Nets Game 76ers vs Nets December 16 2013 NBA 2013 14 Season
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwLn2w5mZFI
To: Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
Maybe this is all a misunderstanding and that's actually Fred Travalena who probably COULD use a free t-shirt.
To: a fool in paradise
He looks like Bruce Jenner now.
They must have the same plastic surgeon.
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posted on
12/17/2013 2:09:03 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: a fool in paradise
The guy is an icon, let him enjoy the game however he wants. Leave him alone.
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posted on
12/17/2013 2:10:36 PM PST
by
az wildkitten
(8 years 'til I retire)
To: a fool in paradise
Paul let me down by shilling for Obama, but I still am thankful for all the music he wrote for us. It’s clear that Paul likes being with and around people, he would never willingly become a hermit. I understand he wants to enjoy this big beautiful world too. I still worry for his safety when he’s out like that amongst the unwashed and the out of tune. Even the rich a famous can get tired of living a Bubble Boy type of existence.
To: a fool in paradise
Poor Fred died in 2009, remember back when Carson was hot how many impersonators there were?
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posted on
12/17/2013 2:13:10 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: az wildkitten
He shouldn’t make rude comments directed at a kid he claims caught a shirt “dedicated” for him.
To: a fool in paradise
To: lee martell
Even the rich a famous can get tired of living a Bubble Boy type of existence. It's made Ringo bitter (being a Beatle Bubble Boy). When people ask him "What's it like being a Beatle, he says "what's it like NOT being one?"
To: a fool in paradise
the article makes him seem lie a jerk . the video shows him just being like any other fan at a game . good gravy!
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posted on
12/17/2013 2:16:43 PM PST
by
InvisibleChurch
(http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/ http://thepurginglutheran.tumblr.com/)
To: a fool in paradise
Maybe I’m amazed. Or dead.
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posted on
12/17/2013 2:22:30 PM PST
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: InvisibleChurch
Yup! Geez what a stupid article. Paul’s just having fun and really does seem completely down to earth and right at home amongst the folks.
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posted on
12/17/2013 2:24:14 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: a fool in paradise
It’s not about the prize, it’s about playing the game.
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posted on
12/17/2013 2:28:22 PM PST
by
Hugin
To: a fool in paradise
I have never been able to figure out what makes Paul McCartney popular. I can't think of a single thing he's recorded that I can listen to.
Back in the day the Beatles had some good stuff now and then, but being a blues and R&R fan I never thought they were really a rock band. After the break up John Lennon's music was often closer to rock than anything McCartney ever came up with. Compare "Instant Karma" to "Silly Love Songs" and it's like two different worlds. It makes me wonder how they ever worked together. But, neither of them came out with anything that made me part with my money after Sgt. Pepper.
--My opinion only, of course.
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posted on
12/17/2013 2:30:47 PM PST
by
Baynative
(Wake me up early, be good to my dogs and teach my children to pray.)
To: Baynative
I have never been able to figure out what makes Paul McCartney popular. Ask some chicks, he always seemed to be much loved by them.
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posted on
12/17/2013 2:32:52 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
To: a fool in paradise
That doesn’t sound bitter to me. It sounds like a wry observation on relative perspective. He’s never known anything other than being a Beatle, at least as an adult.
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posted on
12/17/2013 2:35:06 PM PST
by
Hugin
To: a fool in paradise
Macca is tight with his money. He's fought parking tickets.
I'm a huge McCartney fan, BTW.
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posted on
12/17/2013 2:39:13 PM PST
by
Scoutmaster
(I'd rather be at Philmont)
To: Scoutmaster
He paid Heather Mills a lot.
To: Baynative
After the break up John Lennon's music was often closer to rock than anything McCartney ever came up with.
You picked one release from each of them as an example. "Walls and Bridges" and "Imagine" were watery (except "Whatever Gets You through the Night" and the powerful but ultimately boring "Beef Jerky"). His anthem "Imagine" is now more of a lounge club/lefty staple even as Silly Love Songs stays in the Top 40 pop box it was always meant to be in.
Even the album entitled "Rock'n'Roll" is largely populated with slower covers (the released "Stand by Me") and filler (Ya-Ya). Worst cover album of its type since Bowie's Pin-Ups.
Heck, Harrison's "Thanks for the Pepperoni" has more Rock spirit in it than "Instant Karma", "Mind Games" and "Imagine" put together. George managed to put down the sitar for 10 minutes and got some great studio help.
Paul McCartney never pretended to be Aerosmith. He could write pop (Band on the Run, Listen to What the Man Says), country (Sally G), straight rock (Rock Show,Juniors Farm, Jet, Helen Wheels), opera (Liverpool Oratorio), slow rock (Venus and Mars, Letting Go), and could tinker on piano, guitar and bass.
He is not my favorite, but the man has talent, even with half his brain burnt out from weed.
Also, Paul McCartney won't force us to buy a half dozen Yoko Ono tracks to get his last album.
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posted on
12/17/2013 3:02:05 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There's no salvation in politics.)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
12/17/2013 3:02:57 PM PST
by
HerrBlucher
(Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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