Comments on: Rockville Police Report http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/ Author James Bovard Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Brian Wilson http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-549 Brian Wilson Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:09:51 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-549 Actually, no. I don't recall exactly from what wellspring (or septic tank) of inspiration that line or "an acre of garlic" sprung. Naturally, I prefer to take credit for "Originality" and "Brilliance". However, the '60's being what they were, I can't do that with what remains of "good conscience". Altho I do have a dim memory of being on the Levy Road outside of Baton Rouge one steamy summer afternoon, stuck behind a wagon load of wet goats..... Actually, no. I don’t recall exactly from what wellspring (or septic tank) of inspiration that line or “an acre of garlic” sprung. Naturally, I prefer to take credit for “Originality” and “Brilliance”. However, the ’60’s being what they were, I can’t do that with what remains of “good conscience”.
Altho I do have a dim memory of being on the Levy Road outside of Baton Rouge one steamy summer afternoon, stuck behind a wagon load of wet goats…..

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-548 Jim Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:53:49 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-548 Brian - Thanks for the great insight. Well, I reckon if we need to know the truth of the matter, we should have come to you first. Sounds like Lehrer was a great interview. And I have smiled many times when you have used the razor blade line on the air when you have had me on. Did Lehrer have anything to do with the "wagonload of wet goats" quip? Brian - Thanks for the great insight.

Well, I reckon if we need to know the truth of the matter, we should have come to you first.

Sounds like Lehrer was a great interview. And I have smiled many times when you have used the razor blade line on the air when you have had me on.

Did Lehrer have anything to do with the “wagonload of wet goats” quip?

]]> By: Brian Wilson http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-547 Brian Wilson Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:29:20 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-547 I had the great pleasure of interviewing Tom Lehrer on my KSFO/San Francisco show a few years back after discovering he lived on the Left Coast. We - or at least I - had a great time learning first hand the hassles he got from his colleagues, the inspiration for Bright College Days, The Boy Scout Marching Song, etc. Indeed, he admitted the world had gotten to such a state (no pun intended) there was nothing left to satirize any longer. At the end, he granted me permission to continue using "sliding down the razor blade of life" on future shows! I had the great pleasure of interviewing Tom Lehrer on my KSFO/San Francisco show a few years back after discovering he lived on the Left Coast.
We - or at least I - had a great time learning first hand the hassles he got from his colleagues, the inspiration for Bright College Days, The Boy Scout Marching Song, etc. Indeed, he admitted the world had gotten to such a state (no pun intended) there was nothing left to satirize any longer. At the end, he granted me permission to continue using “sliding down the razor blade of life” on future shows!

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-545 Jim Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:26:31 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-545 Whatever you think best! I'll send some fiddling your way. Whatever you think best!

I’ll send some fiddling your way.

]]> By: Sunni http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-544 Sunni Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:18:22 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-544 Hahahaha!! I'll add some Lehrer tunes to the stuff I send you. Got any requests? Hahahaha!! I’ll add some Lehrer tunes to the stuff I send you. Got any requests?

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-541 Jim Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:38:10 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-541 At least Tom Lehrer can take the quiet satisfaction that the nation listened to his songs, heeded his warnings, and is now so rational and prudent that there is nothing left to spoof. I have heard some of his songs and shake my head to think of how much hypocrisy must have existed back in the 1960s. Another reason to count our blessings for the new Millennium. At least Tom Lehrer can take the quiet satisfaction that the nation listened to his songs, heeded his warnings, and is now so rational and prudent that there is nothing left to spoof.

I have heard some of his songs and shake my head to think of how much hypocrisy must have existed back in the 1960s. Another reason to count our blessings for the new Millennium.

]]> By: Sunni http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-540 Sunni Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:23:31 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-540 More's the pity—you and he would be quite a team. He's still around, you know ... but he's observed, quite rightly in most respects, that there's little left to satirize. More’s the pity—you and he would be quite a team. He’s still around, you know … but he’s observed, quite rightly in most respects, that there’s little left to satirize.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-539 Jim Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:40:56 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-539 Sunni - Tom Lehrer never made it to Front Royal, Virginia - at least not before I was ridden out of town on a rail. Sunni - Tom Lehrer never made it to Front Royal, Virginia - at least not before I was ridden out of town on a rail.

]]> By: Sunni http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-536 Sunni Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:31:04 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-536 Jim, I prefer to think you did the Boy Scout thing under <a href="http://www.lyricsdir.com/tom-lehrer-be-prepared-lyrics.html" rel="nofollow">"Tom Lehrer rules"</a>. Jim, I prefer to think you did the Boy Scout thing under “Tom Lehrer rules”.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-534 Jim Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:36:43 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/04/26/rockville-police-report/#comment-534 I have struggled for decades with that Reverence part of the Scout oath. Funny that Scouts in the mid-late 60s were being taught to take a very deferential attitude towards government - at the same time that the government was committing so many rascalities. I don't recall that exposing government wrongdoing was one of the options for Citizenship merit badge. (Or did that merit badge have some other name?) Yes, Dad would have been amused at yesterday's exchange on the Pike.... I have struggled for decades with that Reverence part of the Scout oath. Funny that Scouts in the mid-late 60s were being taught to take a very deferential attitude towards government - at the same time that the government was committing so many rascalities.

I don’t recall that exposing government wrongdoing was one of the options for Citizenship merit badge. (Or did that merit badge have some other name?)

Yes, Dad would have been amused at yesterday’s exchange on the Pike….

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