Convincing John
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Hi, everybody. Any Beatles fans out there? I've been meaning to post this for a while. This is something my sister told me, who is the biggest fan of the Beatles I know. She's studied all of their music (group and solo) and has almost every book written about them.
Anyway, she told me something she read about George Harrison that happened in either 1962 or 1963. When Beatlemania had just hit, the Beatles went into a bar/restaurant in London (if I remember right). Anyway, George sat down and ordered something with toast on the side.
A few minutes later, someone managed to reach out their hand and swipe the toast from George's plate! There was another person with him who was in on it. The two of them ran out of there and got away. They managed to convince people they had a piece of toast that belonged to George Harrison. They might have had a photo of them stealing the toast, but I'm not 100% positive about that.
So, the guy took the toast home...and put it in the freezer...and he waited.
In the mid-eighties, a piece of toast was auctioned off for $450 that was supposedly George Harrison's! Yeah, the guy kept it in the freezer that whole time! And at another auction, someone actually had complete, still on the sticks, never opened boxes of Yellow Submarine popsicles from 1969! Seriously!
Now these stories sound weird, but if you were sitting in a restaurant, and Frank Oz ate at the table next to you, and upon leaving, he dropped a muffin or a cookie or something like that, what would you do?
a. Pick it up, dust it off, and say "Hey, you dropped this! It's okay, I wiped it off!"
b. If it's a cookie, you jump up on the table, and in your best Cookie Monster voice, you shout "This song's for Frank!!! He the BEST!!!" And you sing "C is for Cookie" and eat the cookie like Cookie Monster in front of everybody in the restaurant.
c. Take the cookie or muffin home and put it in your freezer.
Probably most of you would pick "c". You also get points if you choose not to freeze it, but to have it bronzed. (that's what I'd do).
Convincing John
Anyway, she told me something she read about George Harrison that happened in either 1962 or 1963. When Beatlemania had just hit, the Beatles went into a bar/restaurant in London (if I remember right). Anyway, George sat down and ordered something with toast on the side.
A few minutes later, someone managed to reach out their hand and swipe the toast from George's plate! There was another person with him who was in on it. The two of them ran out of there and got away. They managed to convince people they had a piece of toast that belonged to George Harrison. They might have had a photo of them stealing the toast, but I'm not 100% positive about that.
So, the guy took the toast home...and put it in the freezer...and he waited.
In the mid-eighties, a piece of toast was auctioned off for $450 that was supposedly George Harrison's! Yeah, the guy kept it in the freezer that whole time! And at another auction, someone actually had complete, still on the sticks, never opened boxes of Yellow Submarine popsicles from 1969! Seriously!
Now these stories sound weird, but if you were sitting in a restaurant, and Frank Oz ate at the table next to you, and upon leaving, he dropped a muffin or a cookie or something like that, what would you do?
a. Pick it up, dust it off, and say "Hey, you dropped this! It's okay, I wiped it off!"
b. If it's a cookie, you jump up on the table, and in your best Cookie Monster voice, you shout "This song's for Frank!!! He the BEST!!!" And you sing "C is for Cookie" and eat the cookie like Cookie Monster in front of everybody in the restaurant.
c. Take the cookie or muffin home and put it in your freezer.
Probably most of you would pick "c". You also get points if you choose not to freeze it, but to have it bronzed. (that's what I'd do).
Convincing John