CoL49 (1) I Want to Kiss Your Feet [PC 13]

[Henry Musikar]

Mmmm... feet.

The toe bone's connected to the foot bone.
The foot bone's connected to the ankle bone.
The ankle bone's connected to the leg bone.
The leg bone's connected to the thigh bone.
The thigh bone's connected to the "hip" bone.

Leg man, myself.

Henry Musikar
Sr. IT Consultant
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20/ 

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Subject: CoL49 (1) I Want to Kiss Your Feet [PC 13]

"I Want to Kiss Your Feet" is a riff off of "I Want to Hold Your Hand."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iim6s8Ea_bE

[dig the totally bogus lip-synch]

Throw in "She Loves You" from Mucho's Gaian acid epiphany:

	"I Want to Hold Your Hand" was one of two Beatles songs
	(along with "She Loves You") to be later recorded in German,
	entitled, "Komm, gib mir deine Hand". Odeon, the German arm
	of EMI (the parent company of The Beatles' record label,
	Parlophone Records) was convinced that The Beatles' records
	would not sell in Germany unless they were sung in German.
	The Beatles detested the idea . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_to_Hold_Your_Hand

. . . one can situate the book at the first blush of Beatlemania in  
America. Probably March 29-May 17, 1964.

	By April, 1964, the band's singles occupied the top five spots on
	the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

http://classicrock.about.com/od/beatles/a/beatles_history_3.htm

Naturally, it also contains a reference to something religious and  
aberrant:

	Millions of pilgrims with loving pressure have worn down the
	feet of the statue of Saint Paul in Rome with their lips. At the
	beginning of the Holy Roman Empire it was the custom for the
	faithful to kiss the right hand of the Papal Father. In the eighth
	century, a rather passionate woman took liberties and
	according to legend, the Pope cut off his hand in disgust. The
	custom of kissing the Pope's right foot was adapted as more
	appropriate. Pope Innocent III(1198-1216) had kings and
	churchmen kiss his feet. Today the act of homage involves
	kissing the Pontiff's right shoe. Lips are aimed at the cross-
	depicted on the shoe and the act is either taken as a tribute to
	his authority or the simulation of servitude

http://biblefeet.blogspot.com/2009/04/precis-on-clerical-foot-kissing.html