Favorite Beatles song?

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DiO'Bolic

DiO'Bolic

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Anyone lucky enough to have this “Yesterday and Today” album in their collection? I hear they go for a small fortune now.

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not_nadine

not_nadine

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blunthead said:
Sorry this is longish...

True, Gramps. When I was a kid my friend Bruce introduced me to a new kid, Steve, who knew a new game. We went to a tree in Bruce's backyard. The game was climb the tree and jump out. I had my doubts, but didn't want to be a party pooper or be called chicken; besides, the limb we were gonna jump off wasn't very high up. So, up we went, Bruce first then me then Steve at the rear.

Bruce, who due to his future history I later in life determined must have had the risk gene, jumped with a holler, landed with a thump, fell over and announced how Great it is! I stepped forward ready to go, and stopped because somehow the limb was now 30 feet off the ground. Then Steve yelled Come on! and kicked me. To this day I remember clearly sitting in Bruce's parents' living room crying pitifully at the severe pain in my abdomen while their maid, who thought I probably wasn't all that hurt, gave me some aspirin and tried to cheer me up. I remember having to walk the block and a half home, seeing a boy playing in his front yard with his Collie as the Collie raised horse-like toward him, taller than the boy. I remember my mom, assuming I wasn't all that hurt, driving me to the hospital but stopping to drop off at the church the vestments which it was her duty each week to launder. I remember the hospital room itself, which I shared with a friendly boy about my age who was sicker than I was, and about whom when I asked later I was given sad news. I remember the huge bandage on my stomach and being told not to stretch much or I'd rip the stitches open.

My spleen had ruptured when I hit the ground. Later, my mom told me that in the emergency room, after I had been wheeled into surgery, a doc told her that if she had arrived at the hospital an hour later I would not have made it, that I would have bled to death internally. She told me she almost passed out.

Well into my 30s I still would get severe upper respiratory infections and the flu. As Gramps said, the spleen is, among other things, a very important part of the immune system.

Fortunately, for mom's and Steve's sake, I survived to later discover The Beatles, my favorite product of which, after ages of contemplation, is...

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Jeeze, Blunt. That sounds straight up like a of SK growing up as a boy novel.

(that sentence was poorly written, but came out the way I would say it)
 
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AchtungBaby

AchtungBaby

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The Let It Be album turns 45 today.


Oops, just realized n_n posted this here just above. Oh well. :p
 
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