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On 25 Jan 2005 14:26:57 -0800, in rec.gardens
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[clip funny stuff]

A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an
abomination (Lev. 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality.
I don't agree. Can you
settle this?

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[Found this at another forum]


That often-reposted bit of political humor originated in May 2000 as an
open letter to "Dr." Laura, who is not actually a doctor of mental health
as she pretends, but only a virulent homophobic radio personality, an
ex-Christian who converted to Judaism & started blaming her personal
homophobia on Jews. Many Jews have been extremely offended by her
misinterpretations of Torah as inciting hatred of gays. For one thing, the
levitical ban applied only to Levites, modernly Cohens, so good thing
Leonard Cohen only got that famous blowjob from Janice Joplin & not from
Scott Joplin.
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Alright, Paggers, hold it right there....................my almost 33 year
old son comes downstairs and asks me "WHAT famous blowjob from Janice Joplin
that Leonard Cohen got??" So for his sake.........is the story on your
website, is there a link or will you humor me and him and e-mail it to me so
that his curiosity will be satisfied? Having grown up with a mom who WENT to
the REAL Woodstock and has fond memories of it (despite the obvious altered
state I was in and being unable to go home for about 10
days.............................................. ..........................
........) he grew up and around me and knew if mom was upset about something
because Janis would be cranked up on the stereo and I'd be in the kitchen,
shrieking along with her.........I just honored her day of birth January
19th (which is shared by Dolly Parton and Peter Gabriel by the way, I love
music as much as I love gardening and plants). So if you'd be so kind as to
indulge an old hippie and her Pagan son the story of the famous blowjob, I
would be most impressed and grateful.
madgardener up on the ridge, back in Faerie Holler, overlooking English
Mountain in Eastern Tennessee, zone 7, Sunset zone 36

Cool your son cares about Woodstock & that whole era of music.

These lyrics from a Leonard Cohen song are about Janis, a loving tribute
despite bragging that she blew him:

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
You were talking so brave and so free.
Giving me head on the unmade bed
While the limousines wait in the street
And those were the reasons and that was New York,
I was running for the money and the flesh
That was called love for the workers in song,
It still is for those of us left.
But you got away, didn't you, baby?
You just threw it all to the crowd.
You got away, they can't pay you now
For making your sweet little song.

I have stayed in the Chelsea myself & had strange adventures & encounters
there. Riding the elevator with a drunken soap opera star, a complete
stranger to me, leaning on my shoulder & weeping & trying to get me to
admit I knew who he was (I didn't even own a TV at the time & had no idea
he was soap star), so I started singing Leonard's song to him & cheered
the poor guy up.

Leonard first met Janis in that very elevator, when he said to her, "Are
you looking for something," and she replied, "I'm looking for something."
In an often repeated story first told by Leonard himself, but I wonder if
it wouldn't've had to have been only a jest partly against himself, he
claimed he had to first convince her he was Kris Kristofferson in order to
get her to blow him.

If there is a God, he's gotta look just like Leonard Cohen.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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