Peter, Paul and Mary KNEW!!!!

[Angel Tarragon]

I feel better now, having read that. I needed a good laugh.

 

[Corsair]

And here I had heard for years that the song was about smoking dope!

And you were still wrong. The song was based on a late 1950's poem by a Cornell student about innocence lost. One of PP+M (I forget who) was also a Cornell student and teamed up with the original author to turn it into a song.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I love it!

Olaf the Stout

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The "smoking dope" interpretation is real, and was (I believe) an FBI creation. The Feds were on P,P &M and the rest of the "damn Hippies" for being anti-American commie pinko scum, so anything they did was suspect. (You should read about what they thought of John Lennon...)

It was detailed & ridiculed in a comedy routine by George Carlin...whom I bet was the inspiration for this (brilliant!) second interpretation.

 

[Maggan]

Also, Rich Burlew knew.

In the last installment of OotS that went up before the announcement, Roy cuts off the head of a Dragon.

It can't get more obvious than that.

Also, the head fell on a powerful villain, ending his threat. Make of that what you will.

/M

 

[hong]

Idiot troll. What kind of people can fall for this idiot troll. I am reporting this thread to the administrators. Stupid idiot trolling.

 

[Shin Ji]

Idiot troll. What kind of people can fall for this idiot troll. I am reporting this thread to the administrators. Stupid idiot trolling.

Why the hate?

 

[krunchyfrogg]

If you go to the island of Kaui'i, you can see Puff the Magic Dragon. It's a formation of mountains around a large body of water. The legend goes that Peter, Paul and Mary loved it there, and were hanging out one day (and probably on quite a few hallucinagenics) and noticed the rock formation. The song was written there.

Even if you hate PP&M, or don't care about Puff, Kaui'i is like paradise on earth. I highly recommend any and everybody make it there at least once in their life.

 

[Hjorimir]

Why the hate?

I think it's a joke where Hong is going to report Henry...to Henry. (Look at Henry's title, he's above the law, so to speak.)

 

[Wombat]

Next I want him to decode American Pie...

That was sooooo cooool