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Bekah
bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Oct 5 21:16:36 CDT 2009
I still swear Donovan sings, "Quite right, Slick," in there. (And
that also addresses the question of why someone called someone else,
"Slick" a couple chapters ago. )
Bekah
On Oct 5, 2009, at 12:00 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
> People I know really did scrape banana peels,
> and bake and smoke the residue.
> Not me. My mom mostly didn't work outside the home,
> and she owned the oven.
>
>
> Okay, so if Bigfoot is getting his bananas free,
> and it's ostensibly a shakedown of the proprietor
> which he (the proprietor) accepts because he
> is selling "Yellow Haze" which is in fact, not illegal...
>
> Doc is perplexed. He is such an innocent, and apparently
> hasn't watched any number of old movies where the
> policeman takes perks for granted.
>
> However, slight twist: "If it's legal, then so is
> taking my cut."
> Aha - are we to assume that Bigfoot does NOT
> take a cut of illegal drugs? Is this why he later does
> what he does with that thing...because he himself
> - like Zoyd, in a way - has retained a vestige of
> symbolic purity? so he can fob it off to Doc without
> a qualm, but would not feel right in a hands-on role?
>
> obviously, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQz_s8Yw1Us
>
>
>
> --
> --- "Can't say it often enough -
> change your hair, change your life."
> - Sortilege
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