Posted on 09/16/2007 3:50:27 AM PDT by Andy'smom
If you thought Scaramouche was a pretentious name for Sen. John Forbes Kerry to give his 42-foot Nantucket gigolo boat, he’s gone and topped himself.
Liveshot has scuttled the name Scaramouche and rechristened it . . . Let It Be.
That’s right, the Beatles song. From Freddie Mercury to John Lennon. I’m telling you, you cannot make this stuff up.
Why “Let It Be?” My theory is the more appropriate Lennon-McCartney titles were taken: “Nowhere Man” and “I’m a Loser.” Not to mention “Fool on the Hill.”
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Kerry is probably trying to maintain political viability by concealing the real reason for the name “Scaramouche”. See the brilliant post from a few years ago, exclusive to FR, excerpted below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472855/posts
The Quiet American by Grhame Greene is the quintessential anti vietnam novel. Written in 1955 while the French effort in then Indochina was raging, the novel explores and illustrates the various feelings regarding Vietnam that came to dominate American political culture in the late 1960’s.
The protagnist of the book is a guy called Fowler. Fowler is an American hating, left-leaning atheist in the mold of Greene himself.
On the other side is a fellow named Pyle, who works at the American embassy and is a strident anti-communist.
Fowler is very Kerry-esque, tortured by every conceivable nuance missed by the US and Western governments, and ultimately finds himself far more sympathetic to the Communists than to the French, Americans or non-Communist nationalists.
This is the quintessential book opposing the French/American effort in Vietnam, and there is no doubt that Kerry read it.
Fowler goes on to conspire with the viet minh to have Pyle killed. Fowler’s alibi for the evening when Pyle was killed? He was watching the movie Scaramouche.
The name of John Kerry’s yacht? Scaramouche. Coincidence?
then it qualifies! good
Would “ THE LANCHED LURCH “ be a fitting handle for this pero?
I guess the name Swiftboat was already taken. (LOL)
How about “Back in the USSR”
Sounds a lot like our boy JFnK, the lawyer, politician, and gigolo, except that his logic and sword are both quite bent. His identifying with a French aristocrat is too funny for words.
Here’s the American Heritage Dictionary on Scaramouch (or Scaramouche):
NOUN: A stock character in commedia dell’arte and pantomime, depicted as a boastful coward or buffoon.
ETYMOLOGY: French Scaramouche, from Italian Scaramuccia, from scaramuccia, skirmish.
Let it be! Indeed.
Or “Christmas in Cambodia”?
Or “I used to fairy CIA guys to Cambodia”?
Actually, the protaganist is the illegitimate son of two aristocrats and raised by the mother’s friend. After joining a roaming acting troop, which uses the charactors of traditional comic plays such as Pantaloon, Rhodomont (the likely source of rhodomontade) Polichinelle, etc. All very stereotypical. Scaramouche was the trickster. He later works for a fencing master and becomes expert and still later ends up joining the National Assembly during the early days of the French Revolution, in part to keep aristocrats from killing their opponents in duels. It’s a great book (by Rafael Sabatini).
But, you’r probably right about Kerry’s admiration for the French and for The Quiet American. Remember a few years ago that Michael Caine was miffed because he didn’t win best actor for the movie.
For purpose of searching the forum.
Otherwise, 'Lonley' is OK. 'Lonley' could be who would follow Kerry.
"Lonley, don't you get on that boat!"
YELLOW SUBMARINE (paint boat to match).
Reporting for dooty?
Very, Very Bad Luck to change any boat’s name...as any true seaman knows. But this poor slob Kerry has flip-flopped on everything else in his life, why not his boat’s name too. Pitiful jerk!!!
Ship of Fools?
Kerry - boats - Scaramuccia, all becoming classic. Maybe Lonley is the classic dupe.
Its done all the time on the Great Lakes.
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