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Joe Presley (presXYZZYley@worldnet.att.net) 2005/04/26 19:06

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Konomae niwa Chris Croughton <chris@keristor.net> ga kou itta

> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:02:50 +0200, Frank Burkhard
>    <franky_81@web.de> wrote:
>
>> just listing Beatles "Happiness is a warm gun", and asking
>> myself, "what the f***" it means?
>
> Don't try to understand it!  A lot of the Beatles lyrics don't
> actually make much sense as lyrics, if you just look at (or listen to)
> the words. There is background often but it takes a lot more digging.

"Happiness is a Warm Puppy" was a book by Charles Schulz ("Peanuts")
published in 1962.  It was full of homespun wisdom and today I guess
we'd call them affirmations.  Possibly the gun for puppy was substituted
ironically.

--
 Joe

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