Music trivia anyone?

bbloom: no, but you're in the vicinity of one of the answers. -kelly

tubegroover: think you're a little confused. william howard taft was the eggman. -kelly

sugarbrie: could be wrong here, but didn't that walrus get et by the shark?

ok, let's get more than one going at once. this one slightly tougher than david's first: why did harry nilsson sell his flat in london and to whom did he sell it?

BTW, david, a tiger can't change his spots. ;~)

i am the walrus.

estrand: "....of shoes--and ships--and sealing wax---of cabbages and kings--and why the sea was boiling hot--and whether pigs have wings." chas. lutwidge dodgson (lewis carroll), "the walrus and the carpenter."

waynev: you're right, of course. meant leopard. thank you. -kelly

ok, times up. bbloom came closest to the answers but not quite. here's the story:

by the late 60's/early 70's harry nilsson was recording and performing frequently in the uk. it, thus, made sense to him to buy a flat in london as a "home away...". since harry wasn't a full-time resident of the uk, he frequently loaned his flat (on curzon place in mayfair) to friends. one friend, mama cass eliott, died in his bed in 1974. four years later another good friend, kieth moon, died in the same flat, on the same bed. harry, understandably, wasn't keen on keeping his place, let alone trying to find rest in the seemingly fatal bedroom. fortunately, he was able to unload the curzon place flat, selling it to yet another friend of his, kieth and mama cass, pete towshend.

interesting "small world" story, eh. -kelly

david: just guessing here, but was it purplish clam congregation?

david: don't let all those + votes go to your head, now. just remember that, purportedly, the majority of lottery winners blow their rewards in a year or less. -kelly (who's much happier being your friend than your adversary)

angela: alice's restaurant? that's what they play it in denver, er, boulder.

the subtitle to alice's restaurant is something like "the great thanksgiving day masacree."

re: john lennon's death. i was watching monday night football. howard cosell broke the news. my older son, who turns 32 this week, reminded me quite recently that i was so stunned that i awakened him, then a gradeschooler, to tell him, already a beatles fan, the sad, sad news. -kelly