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From: Chris Croughton <chris@keristor.net>
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Subject: Re: Happiness is a warm gun
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:07:20 +0100
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:06:29 -0500, Joe Presley
<presXYZZYley@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Konomae niwa Chris Croughton <chris@keristor.net> ga kou itta
I did not, it wasn't me, I wasn't there, and anyway I meant to! <g>
>> 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.
Or deliberately in the original article (full title was "Happiness Is A
Warm Gun In The Hand"). I do, now you mention it, remember the Schultz
book, and that may have influenced the song as well, but I don't know
how well it was known in the UK at the time (as I recall I only
encountered Schultz in the late 60s in UK publications).
Chris C
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