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underpants

(182,883 posts)
6. Every time I saw the overalls and shaded straw hat last night I laughed
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 11:20 AM
Sep 2015

I understand authenticity but I also understand pandering.

90-percent

(6,829 posts)
5. This thread could use a celebrity Zappa fan
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 11:16 AM
Sep 2015

<a href=".html" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt=" photo chrisse-fz.jpg"/></a>

Chrissy Hynde, from a recent feature on CBS.

Also - thanks for getting the quote correct. I've seen some meme's where "military industrial complex" is substituted, incorrectly, for "industry".

Also, FZ never ever said "So many books, so little time." He didn't like to read books. He said it made him sleepy.

-90% Jimmy

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
7. “Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.” - Frank Zappa
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 11:33 AM
Sep 2015

The fuller quotation gives the scene the necessary depth and flavor.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
10. That might have overloaded even Frank's giant brain.
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 04:51 PM
Sep 2015

Where would he start?

Talk about a target-rich environment.

Molly Ivins would have had some big fun with that, too.

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
12. I wish Mencken could see it...our country seems hardly to have changed at all since the 1920s...
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 07:40 PM
Sep 2015

...The Sage of Baltimore's descriptions of America back then could have come from our headlines today...

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