Updated: Legalize it already! Saturday 9

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Saturday 9: Margaritaville (1977)
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song Jimmy sings of "booze in the blender." What do you prepare in your blender?
Being such a goody goody girl now I make smoothies in it, with protein powder, juice and bananas.  Yummmm! Long ago I made Cadillac Margaritas in it.  Double Yummmm!

2) As the song opens, Jimmy is sitting on his front porch swing. Describe the front porch of the building you're in right now.
There is no front porch, nor for that matter is there a back porch.  I've longed for a Craftsman House since I was 10 years old, with that nice house-wide porch in the front.  But, alas...

3) Jimmy sings of being able to smell boiling shrimp. Do you prefer your shrimp boiled, glazed or breaded?
When I was able to eat them, I liked my shrimp boiled and cold- to dip into a cocktail sauce, or else breaded then deep fried.  We bought them shell on, and had to clean and butterfly them. And how could I forget Shrimp Scampi???   Lovely things!
4) During the song, he mentions his flip flops. Have you put your flip flops and sandals away till spring? Or is it still warm enough to wear them?
We wear them all year long when we wear shoes at all.  Aren't the new decorated ones terrific looking?  I like the little fuzzy ones that have been wrapped in fun fur yarns.  HERE is a whole page of photos of the little beauties with even some links on how to make them.

5) Jimmy Buffett had hoped this song would be recorded by Elvis Presley, but The King died before he could perform it. What's the first Elvis song that comes to mind?  This is really weird.  I was trying to pick out a song by Elvis to use on Monday, and this great forbidden music phenom lept to mind:  "You Ain't Nothing But a HoundDog!"   

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Pycho Dad had threatened to break my little transistor radio if I listened to any more rock and roll, especially sleazy Elvis, and he overheard it. I figured he should know what sleaze was and ignored him.  My mother just let us listen to it when he wasn't around.  

6) Buffett fans are known as Parrotheads. Concert attire for a well-dressed Parrothead often includes a Hawaiian shirt and a foam fin hat. What will you be wearing tonight?  You mean besides my Hawaiian shirt and my foam fin hat?  

7) Loyal Parrotheads paid between $500 and $5000 to see Mr. Buffet at a fundraiser for Barack Obama's 2012 Presidential campaign. What's the most you would pay for a concert ticket?  Well, not that much.  We did pay around $40 to see a concert by Neal Diamond.

8) Jimmy is an outspoken environmentalist and supports causes like ocean conservation, saving the manatees and expanding the Dallas Zoo. What steps do you take to help save the planet?  A lot.  I'm not kidding.  A lot.  As much as we can afford and then some.  There are kids on this planet, besides all the other earthlings who have done nothing to deserve what is rolling down the pike.

9) Uh-oh. When Jimmy and the Coral Reefers played in Wisconsin this past August, more than two dozen concertgoers got tickets for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Do you believe pot should be legalized?  Pot?  Hell yes!  It should be!   Take the freaking MONEY out of it for the deadly gangs.  What's happening is senseless.

Update:  But, taxing the sales is ok.  The states that legalized Pot are already making some money, which is good when you think about that aspect.  HERE  And, Calvina Fay, alcohol and cigarettes are not really drugs.  They have almost ZERO use for anything but killing a person yet they've been legal for years.

I suppose I'm just too old to beat around the bush anymore.  I think that the powers that be made a HUGE mistake when they started calling Cannabis a controlled substance and put it in a class with some really BAD stuff.  What is that saying?  Double Dumass U?




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