Scaramouche, Scaramouche, can you do the fandango?
“Lonley, you stay away from that strange man!”
“Kerry That Weight” seems like a good name for the life boat.
Its bad luck to re-name a boat.
LOL. We need some photoshopped versions of Jon Cary’s boat renamed
“Nowhere Man”
and
“Fool on the Hill”
maybe also
“Hard Day’s Night” (for what it must be like to be married to him, or for him to be married to Teresa)
Any way the wind blows....”
Most excellent bump!
Lonley = Lonely
>>When she said yes, he was feeling glad all over.
Oops, Howie, that one wasn’t a Beatles song (Glad All Over).
Dave Clark 5, IIRC... :)
Kerry is probably trying to maintain political viability by concealing the real reason for the name “Scaramouche”. See the brilliant post from a few years ago, exclusive to FR, excerpted below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472855/posts
The Quiet American by Grhame Greene is the quintessential anti vietnam novel. Written in 1955 while the French effort in then Indochina was raging, the novel explores and illustrates the various feelings regarding Vietnam that came to dominate American political culture in the late 1960’s.
The protagnist of the book is a guy called Fowler. Fowler is an American hating, left-leaning atheist in the mold of Greene himself.
On the other side is a fellow named Pyle, who works at the American embassy and is a strident anti-communist.
Fowler is very Kerry-esque, tortured by every conceivable nuance missed by the US and Western governments, and ultimately finds himself far more sympathetic to the Communists than to the French, Americans or non-Communist nationalists.
This is the quintessential book opposing the French/American effort in Vietnam, and there is no doubt that Kerry read it.
Fowler goes on to conspire with the viet minh to have Pyle killed. Fowler’s alibi for the evening when Pyle was killed? He was watching the movie Scaramouche.
The name of John Kerry’s yacht? Scaramouche. Coincidence?
YELLOW SUBMARINE (paint boat to match).
Reporting for dooty?
Very, Very Bad Luck to change any boat’s name...as any true seaman knows. But this poor slob Kerry has flip-flopped on everything else in his life, why not his boat’s name too. Pitiful jerk!!!
Ship of Fools?
Howie is always entertaining!
Actually, a caller to his radio show mentioned seeing Kerry tie up the "Let It Be" next to a tony pierside restaurant on Nantucket. Howie said he thought the name of the War Hero's lastest command was the "Scaramouche", but he'd look into it.
I was a little taken aback by Kerry's choice of the name Scaramouche, knowing it's connotation, especially in light of the Swiftboat allegations and the fact that he was basing his presidential campaign on his "War Record".
How about Bonnie Tyler’s “Lost in France”?
“Let It Be”
It’s actually a plea to the Swiftboaters and others who revealed some of the truth about his military service.
He just doesn’t want the hidden truth of his questionable discharge persued any further.
“Please, oh please, let it be.....”
LT ping - sneaking in for a good laugh...........