…you see Jerry Garcia’s face on “collectible” postage stamps from Montserrat. http://www.icsnow.com/Boutique.asp?ICON=JERRYGARCIA
Isn’t it bad enough the man is dead–must they keep him spinning in his grave? :mad:
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen
Ben and Jerry sold out, too.
“His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad,
His hair is as dark as a blackboard,
I wish he was mine, he’s really divine,
The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.”
Wrong thinking is punished, right thinking is just as swiftly rewarded. You’ll find it an effective combination.
Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” ends up in a Mercedes Benz commercial.
Those ad execs sure understand the message of that song, don’t they?
“We are here for this – to make mistakes and to correct ourselves, to withstand the blows and to hand them out.” Primo Levi
Sure the sixties are over. But Jerry Garcia doesn’t know about the collectible stamps. So maybe things like that are considered a little disrespectful, but the Post Office have the permission to do it. Someone owns those rights (usually the family of the deceased) and they can do whatever the hell they want with it, it’s their property. They inherited or bought or somehow aquired those rights, and it is no longer Jerry Garcia’s decision, it doesn’t matter if “Jerry woulda wanted it this way,” it’s not Jerry’s decision.
Here are some more upsetting stamps from around the world:
http://coolstamps.com/star.html
I am assuming they were actually issued by the nations listed. Even the Baywatch stamps.
My most chilling sixties-ending moment was when I heard this commercial for Ponderosa (a cheap steak house):
“You can get anything you want
At a Ponderosa Restaurant.”
You know the 60’s are over when they remake the tv series and the original actors are cast as department heads ,or worse ,grandparents of the hereos.
I played a gig recently where the crowd were mostly undergraduates. We had a guest guitarist visiting from the US. He is a touch showy and at one point he did the old “play guitar behind the head” thing (shudder). At the end of the gig someone approached him and told him that he liked the Michael J Fox impression.
When you remember the slogan "Just Do It’, was a cry to revolution instead of a Nike commercial.
Man, I must be like a thousand years old now…
Wisdom is the boobie prize,they give you when you’ve been --unwise!
…when you look at the calendar. Come on, folks, the 60’s have been over for a looooooong time, and I don’t just mean chronologically.
For me, the 60’s really ended when everyone from Rod Stewart to the Rolling Stones rushed out to make a disco record. Ugh.
It’s my duty; my duty as a complete and utter bastard.–Arnold J. Rimmer.
I knew the '60’s were over when I had to start going to school. Kindergarden marked the end of an era.
When protesters converge in vast hordes upon Washington DC in response to…World Finance?
Your brain-in-a-jar,
Myron
Imbibo, ergo sum.
Must have been the same franchise chain as Bonanza. At least it sounds like it.
You talk to somebody about The Beatles and they stare off blankly into space.
-What’s right is only half of what’s wrong- George Harrison - Old Brown Shoe