Saturday 9: Michelle

Saturday 9: Michelle (1965)

On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun…

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

 

1) In this song, Paul McCartney sings to Michelle in French, "Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble." Can you say anything else in French?

Nope.

I took French for two weeks and dropped out. First, I could never figure out the homework assignment because it was all in French… Duh, we were in the first week of class how were we supposed to understand. Second, my brother had her for Latin and it was always, “Your brother did this…” “Your brother did that…” So I dropped out of class and took another class.

2) Paul admits he that, as a teenager, he'd perform the first few bars at parties to impress girls. It was John Lennon who encouraged him to "turn it into a proper song." Tell us about a time you were glad you took advice from a friend or coworker.

When a friend told me that the head of the testing department was leaving and I should apply for the job… 28 years later I retired from it.

3) A big Elvis fan, Paul is proud to own the bass that was played on the 1954 recording of "That's Alright, Mama." Tell us about one of your prized possessions.

Um… I don’t have a prize possession. Maybe my camera a Nikon D5300.

4) John was also an Elvis fan and honored The King by naming one of his cats Elvis. Do you share your home with any pets? If so, let us know their names.

Nope. No pets

5) John was a heavy smoker who often attempted to quit. He tried hypnosis but that didn't work. Have you ever been hypnotized?

I am afraid to admit it, but yes. it was to lose weight and all I got out of it was a good sleep. She records it and gives the customer a copy. in the background you can hear me cutting some ZZZs.

6) George Harrison fell in love with Hawaii and bought a 63-acre estate. If you could take off tomorrow for a vacation to any of our 50 states, which one would you choose?

Definitely not Florida. It would be northern state with a lot of lakes and woods like New Hampshire.

6) While Ringo Starr quit signing autographs for fans in 2008, he will donate autographed memorabilia to charity for auction. Have you ever bid on an item at auction? Did you win?

Nope. But I have donated photos for a silent auction and two went for $175! But the live auction I just able sat on my hands because the amounts that they were bidding was crazy! If you blinked you just got a $10,000 cruise that was worth $4000. Do I hear $9,500? … Do I hear $9,000”

7) As a young boy, Ringo had a severe case of appendicitis and his appendix was removed. Do you still have your appendix?

Yup.

8) In 1965 -- before Advil and Tylenol and Aleve -- Americans took aspirin to relieve pain. If we peered into your medicine chest, would we find aspirin?

Yes, baby Aspirin.

9) Random question: You're at dinner with a married couple who begins to argue. Would you intercede and try to make peace? Or would you just sit back and mind your own business?

Sit back and mind your own business. Now a days it is crazy to butt into an argument, they might be armed.

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The continuing saga of the washing machine.

You remember last weeks exciting adventures we left off with the repair man coming to fix the day old washer that was leaking live a sieve. He arrived bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at 8:00 AM and I showed him the washer. He did his magic on it and left after a half hour later pronouncing… “Yup it is leaking [Well duh, I can see the stream of water coming from underneath it], I’ll order the new part. See you in two weeks!”

So it has been over a month without a washer and the wash is piling up. So I did little loads because only a little water was coming out and I could keep up to it by mopping it up.

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Yesterday at the Governor’s Connecticut Hate Crimes Advisory Council meeting we had a guest speaker. A Rabbi who is a Holocaust survivor, he was ten at the time when the Nazis came to Russian Poland. The horrors he saw! His older brother shot in the head right in front him. A mother with a baby to her breast feeding bayoneted right through the baby and her. He begged mothers to tell the Nazis that he was her child because they were killing all the children without parents. One mother did. He lived with them in a ghetto for a while until they were taken to a labor camp and he worked to fill in bomb damage at a German airfield.

After the war he did what his mother’s last wish to him to do which was become a Rabbi. Over the years, he found some surviving members of his family and he even found the woman who took him in and her son.

But that isn’t what stuck with me from his talk. It was…

When the Nazis came to his village they rounded up everyone and divided them up… those with a collage education over there. Then they machine gunned them down and threw them in ditch. Educated people can think.

And as he was saying that my mind wandered. The conservatives are banning books… we don’t want the kids learning about that. They are banning what the teachers can say in class… it might give them ideas.