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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I think therefore I am troubled = RENEE DESCARTES<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Give Us A Coke, Luv

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According to the New York Post,
that is what John Lennon said
to Mitzi McCall and Charlie Brill
Exactly fifty years + one Sunday ago.




McCall & Brill were the comedy act
that preceded the Beatles' second set
on the Ed Sullivan Show on 2/9/64.




An audience of supersonically loud
teenagers were in no mood for
the unknown comedy duet
while the Beatles were
waiting in the wings.






 The New York Post article begins:

Charlie Brill has a message for Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. 
“You owe me a dime,” he wants the remaining Beatles to know...  

Brill... gave Beatle John Lennon some change for a soda backstage at 
“The Ed Sullivan Show” the night of the Liverpool lads’ American debut Feb. 9, 1964.

You can read that date on this image of a 48" by 16" section of a backdrop
drawn on and autographed by, from top to bottom:

Ringo Starr
George Harrison 
Uncle Paul McCartney
John Lennon
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I hereby submit a recent headline from our good friends at Art Daily:

Beatles-signed backdrop from The Ed Sullivan Show, Feb. 9, 1964, 
emerges for auction 50 years later

What may be the most unique "Beatles Autograph" is expected to sell
for $80,000.
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What may be the most reasonable settlement of John Lennon's unpaid
dime debt was suggested by Katrina Kompromise, an investigator
at the INSTITUTE OF INANE RESEARCH:

A dime is one/tenth of a dollar and 1/10 of ten cents is 1% of  a dollar.
Let the auctioneer allocate 1% of  the highest bid for the Beatles'
autographed backdrop and give it to Charlie Brill & Mitzi McCall.
That would be a very fair settlement of Mr. Lennon's debt.

The next Beatles' page is here.
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