[Rhodes22-list] Re-naming Boats, Music, and yes, Politics

[elle]

Ya get the distinct impression that he's not a fan of
Kerry's.....

I'm still laughing..

elle


--- Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is just cruel, but funny.  Brad
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> Lt. Kerry's Lonely Hearts Club Band
>  By Howie Carr  |   Sunday, September 16, 2007  |
> http://www.bostonherald.com  |
>
Columnists<http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/>
> 
> If you thought Scaramouche was a pretentious name
> for Sen. John Forbes Kerry
> to give his 42-foot Nantucket gigolo boat, he's gone
> and topped himself.
> 
> Liveshot has scuttled the name Scaramouche and
> rechristened it . . . Let It
> Be.
> 
> That's right, the Beatles song. From Freddie Mercury
> to John Lennon. I'm
> telling you, you cannot make this stuff up.
> 
> Why "Let It Be?" My theory is the more appropriate
> Lennon-McCartney titles
> were taken: "Nowhere Man" and "I'm a Loser." Not to
> mention "Fool on the
> Hill."
> 
> This momentous nautical event happened last
> November, but apparently nobody
> noticed the official filing with the Coast Guard
> until now. The question is,
> Why change the name? A call to Kerry's Boston office
> asking if there will be
> an answer (a line from the song, see?) was responded
> to with a brief
> e-mail:"I have no idea why he changed the name."
> 
> But I do. First, though, we must stipulate the
> junior senator's
> accomplishments. He is without doubt America's most
> successful gigolo. He
> has stalked not one but two heiresses worth hundreds
> of millions. To *John
> Kerry*
>
<http://www.bostonherald.com/search/?topic=John+Kerry>
> I say with
> awe: "Baby You're a Rich Man."
> 
> Thanks to your loaded old gold-digging second wife,
> that is.
> 
> "Can't Buy Me Love" indeed. Mama T Heinz Kerry did
> exactly that. The first
> time Sen. Kerry realized how much dough she had, he
> began humming, "Got to
> Get You Into My Life." When he saw her standing
> there, Kerry wanted to hold
> her hand. Or at least her bank book. When she said
> yes, he was feeling glad
> all over.
> 
> Soon she was singing, "Baby You Can Drive My Car."
> Or, more precisely, her
> SUVs, all five or six of them, one for every
> mansion, which are located here
> there and everywhere. She gave him a ticket to ride
> - on her $35 million
> Gulfstream jet. She cut Liveshot in on 19 Louisburg
> Square on Beacon Hill
> and presented him with that multimillion-dollar
> painting to call his own.
> And now, with a little help from his (very few)
> friends, Kerry hangs on to
> this do-nothing job in the Senate. One tune he never
> has to croon to Mrs.
> Heinz, er Kerry, er, Heinz-Kerry, is "You Never Give
> Me Your Money."
> 
> The Scaramouche, a Hinckley power boat that gets
> less than one mile per
> gallon of fuel, was just another boytoy toy Mama T
> bought him in 2002 with
> money from her first husband's trust fund. Being
> John Kerry, he probably
> decided on the name Scaramouche without doing any
> research beyond hearing
> the Queen tune on an oldies radio station.
> 
> Later on, everybody checked out the real definition
> of Scaramouche. Here's
> one from "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable":
> "A stock character in
> Italian farce. . . . A braggart and a fool, very
> valiant in words, but a
> poltroon."
> 
> >From "Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia": "A braggart
> soldier."
> 
> Well, Liveshot, if the Docksider fits. . .
> 
> When the 2004 campaign heated up, the Scaramouche
> was sent to dry dock, the
> Witness Protection Program of boats. Now it's back
> and John apparently
> wanted a lame new name to reflect his latest boring
> hobby, the acoustic
> guitar.
> 
> "While My Guitar Gently Weeps?" Not quite. Those
> weeping are the poor fools
> forced to endure a set of John singing those
> wonderful protest songs of his
> '60s youth. "Blowing in the Wind," you know, like a
> wind turbine in
> Nantucket Sound. Where Have All the Young Men Gone?
> Mostly to the Sun Belt,
> to escape the high taxes imposed on them in
> Massachusetts by the likes of
> John Kerry.
> 
> But why rename the boat Let It Be? Well, he couldn't
> take "Yellow
> Submarine." That's Ted Kennedy's song.
> 
> "When I'm 64?" No way. I mean, that's how old Kerry
> will be on his next
> birthday, Dec. 11.
> 
> But don't worry, John. Even 64-year-old gigolos are
> still needed, at least
> as long as they can keep their hands off the younger
> local talent, if you
> know what I mean. If you ever get caught, though,
> it'll be hello-goodbye,
> mostly goodbye. One again, you'll be nothing more
> than a day tripper on the
> long and winding road, just like after you dumped
> your first heiress wife.
> What was her name? Julia?
> Article URL:
>
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1031798
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