Larry King just asked Rod Stewart if he followed up on "Maggie May"

[achtung_circus]

with other songs.

Was he a hit in the US?

Did he tour and so on?

CNN is on in the background while I surf and I just decided that Larry King needs to be interred with Lenin.

[Z_I_Peevey]

1. Oh no he di-unt.

This is a joke, right?

[achtung_circus]

2. Swear to god.

or whatever else you wish.



He said it and confirmed his final brain cell has died.

[Z_I_Peevey]

3. Omigod, that's hilarious.

That reminds me of an old, old thread (not DU, TT) called "Talk Like Larry King." It was one of the funniest things I've ever read.

[Darth_Kitten]

4. If you go on Larry King Live, you deserve every question he asks you...

:evilgrin:

[bliss_eternal]

7. LOL!

Good point...the man is a boob! How he got that job is beyond me--I've seen better interviews on Sesame Street.

[Darth_Kitten]

15. He's flaky.....

and he seems to continually interrupt the guests explaining something, maybe something interesting or important, to ask some dumb question. Like, let the people EXPLAIN, you boob. :(

The guy is just odd :(

[Evergreen Emerald]

5. Off topic: any one hear Melissa Etherdige

sing Maggy May?

[NNadir]

6. Lenin, although made of wax, seems somewhat more lively.

Larry King is great when you're stuck in an ersatz Hilton in Bulgaria with a major league hangover and jet lag and haven't heard anyone speak English for 5 days and have been trying to follow all the translations of technical into idiosyncratic Sud Deutsche spoken with a pronounced Portugese accent.

Only then can you actually enjoy Larry King.

[Flying Dream Blues]

8. OMG...linguistic hell...Larry King or even Faux News would sound

good I'm sure!

Edited to add: and LK IS a dumbass!!

[NNadir]

9. I don't know about Faux.

Left with a choice in such a situation I might try to bone up on my Bulgarian by watching the local TV stations and trying to read whatever advertising was left in the room. Those little cards describing the restaurants can be like the Rosetta stone.

Larry King might be tolerable under these circumstances if there's a minibar in the room and your Ambien supply is readily at hand.

[Flying Dream Blues]

10. I've been there, though, and I remember going back through all

my magazines and reading the ads. And following Italians around in Germany because I could halfass understand them vs. feeling like a complete mute in German. Ack. So I maybe I'd watch Faux, not sure. I definitely enjoyed CNN international, the British weather forecast was always a hoot in March.

[NNadir]

11. And the interminable football games.

Manchester vs. Liverpool or some such thing.

[Flying Dream Blues]

20. Yeah, and I was in Paris during the Olympics once and didnt

see anything, SERIOUSLY, but fencing. The only thing they ever medal in. Not that I don't love the French, I do, but come on.

[NNadir]

21. I was in Paris when the French won the world cup.

Being American, I didn't really get it, but the entire city erupted. You knew immediately what happened. The most amazing thing was that Paris was the host city for the thing. I tried to be polite and express my congratulations to the French.

Hotels were about 3X as expensive as they normally were, but a cab driver told me that his business was way down. Apparently many people stayed away because of the prices.

That was in the Clinton era, when the dollar was relatively strong, so it wasn't all that painful for my company to pay my expenses.

[stlsaxman]

12. Not made of wax- I believe that's actually his Lenin's body.

From what I understand they're just now considering where to bury him now the Soviet Union is kaput.

Anyone?

[NNadir]

14. Portions of Lenin are Lenin's body. They've filled in the inevitable

holes with wax.

The Soviet Union spent huge sums preserving Lenin's body, some of this in the 1920's while huge numbers of Soviet citizens were literally starving to death. (At the same time, Stalin was exporting wheat to capitalist countries to raise cash for his crash industrialization program.)

Lenin's greatest contribution in life and death was probably his contribution to mortuary science, where new technologies were tried to preserve his body. The stakes for failure in mortuary science - the all important national goal of which was preserving the holy relic of the holy Lenin - were high: All persons who failed to meet Stalin's demands for new techniques in all fields, not only body preservation, were considered "wreckers" and were subject to imprisonment in the Gulag or death.

As a point of fact, however, it is said that portions of Lenin have actually rotted away nonetheless, and parts of him have been filled in with wax. Over the years there has been less and less of Lenin and more and more of Madame Tussaud.

Although the Catholic Church, another autocratic organization, often displays the corpses of its saints on a more or less permanent basis, these bones are generally allowed to rot, although some mummies, if memory serves me well, have been pronounced "miracles" on the grounds that like beef jerky, they have failed to rot completely.

For several years, from 1953 until 1961, Stalin rotted in the same room with Lenin. One night, when no one was looking, the representatives of the Glorious People's State Worker's Anti-imperialist Anti-Capitalist Politburo, under the cover of darkness, stole into the tomb and removed Stalin and buried him under the Kremlin wall. Before completing this transaction, which involved pouring tons of concrete over the casket just in case Stalin decided to try to rise from the dead, the gold buttons of Stalin's uniform were replaced with brass buttons. It is not known what became of the gold ones. Probably, after the apostate Nikita Khrushchev was removed from the post of General Secretary of the Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev spent hours worshiping them in high Soviet rites in the company of the Politburo College of Cardinals.

Many of the people who ordered Stalin's removal had spent most of their lives in mortal fear of him, licking his boots, satisfying his sadistic whims, whatever. Only when Stalin had been really dead for more than eight years did their fear subside enough that they were courageous enough to disobey a Stalinist order - the order that mortuary science be devoted as much to Uncle Joe as it had been to father Vlad.

[stlsaxman]

16. That was an incredible read! Very fascinating stuff...

i especially love the part about the gold buttons. Wonder if they'll turn up on Antiques Roadshow soon... heheh

Thanks for the post!

[Elidor]

22. "Stalin rotted in the same room with Lenin"

What delicious irony. And how fitting.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. There's a thread going just now, on just this topic, LOL!

It just goes to show that you can find anything you need to know on DU!:D

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1827755

[AntiCoup2K4]

13. I can't really fault Larry King too much for this one....

...since every Rod Stewart album after the Faces broke up was entirely forgettable. (But there were a few in between Maggie May and then)

[Z_I_Peevey]

17. I ran across A Nod Is As Good As A Wink

this past week in a secondhand store. (LP, vinyl, BTW) Almost bought it, but it was too scratched to play and I'm all about a playable collection.

Too bad. I'd love to have that one eventually.

[Left Is Write]

18. Where has Larry King been the last 35 years??

And speaking of Rod Stewart, who gave him permission to record his American Songbook (or whatever he calls his collection of standards)? What did those poor songs ever do to him?

[LoZoccolo]

23. But do you think Lenin should be encased in a lucite block?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4155222