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1. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   “Because I don’t think it’s over” means he doesn’t think his life is over.

2. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   It was a bunch of almost unrelated jokes. You’re analyzing it too much.

3. about 2 months ago on Liberty Meadows

   Please see my comment under Man of the Woods below, with an excerpt from Lennon’s 1980 Playboy interview.

4. about 2 months ago on Liberty Meadows

   From John Lennon’s 1980 Playboy interview, published as a paperback book in 1981:

   Playboy: .. “Happiness Is a Warm Gun”?

   Lennon: Me completely.

   Playboy: And it’s not about drugs?

   Lennon: No. A gun magazine was sitting around and the cover was a picture of a smoking gun. The title of the article, which I never read, was “Happiness Is a Warm Gun.” I took it as the idea of happiness after having shot somebody. Or some animal.

   Playboy: It wasn’t a sexual thing? "When I hold you .. "?

   Lennon: Oh, well, by then I’m into double meanings. The initial inspiration was from the magazine cover. But that was the beginning of my relationship with Yoko …

   So no, not about drugs. People looked for a lot of “hidden meanings” in The Beatles’ songs, which were not intended. Remember all that nonsense about “Paul is dead!” ?

5. about 2 months ago on Crankshaft

   It looks like she’s holding it with the neck down.

6. 3 months ago on Mother Goose and Grimm

   Did they ever have a first name for her?

7. 3 months ago on Crankshaft

   Books about solar eclipses probably won’t be considered to be overstocks until Tuesday.

8. 4 months ago on B.C.

   Here’s what I think it means:

   The person asking for “sensible rhetoric” considers his own rhetoric to be sensible, no matter how extreme his ideas may be. Asking for “sensible rhetoric” means asking for people to agree. Anyone who disagrees is considered to be “extreme”.

   So, using “extreme rhetoric” that agrees with him is the only way to get him to listen.

9. 4 months ago on Ziggy

   DC Comics did the same thing. They had so many different earths, it just got too complicated, so they combined them. But the possibilities for the writers, to have a world where things are a little different, was too tempting.

10. 5 months ago on Crankshaft

    It’s an old-fashioned device called a “land line phone, on the kitchen wall”.