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Wawannabe

(5,678 posts)
Sat Jun 20, 2020, 11:56 AM Jun 2020

Oh SHIT! The walrus is the bad guy!

Yep! Here’s one for John Bolton. Stupid prick. And some history on the lyrics written by John Lennon.
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The idea for the Walrus came from the poem The Walrus and The Carpenter, which is from the sequel to Alice in Wonderland called Through the Looking-Glass. In his 1980 Playboy interview, Lennon said: "It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist and social system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles' work. Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, s--t, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, 'I am the carpenter.' But that wouldn't have been the same, would it?"

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-beatles/i-am-the-walrus

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Oh SHIT! The walrus is the bad guy! (Original Post) Wawannabe Jun 2020 OP
Lol. I thought you were talking about Bolton. rsdsharp Jun 2020 #1
Hah! North Shore Chicago Jun 2020 #2
Well Goog Goog a Joob Wolf Frankula Jun 2020 #3
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