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The Starmaker wrote :
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>>>>>>> Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
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>>>>>>> but of course, he's Jewish!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> but i thought bob dylan stole his music from country people..
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> he cannot even sing..
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/12/bob-dylan-and-plagiarism/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://www.google.com/#q=bob+dylan+plagiarism
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "Joni Mitchell accuses Bob Dylan of plagiarism"
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Addressing her claim that Dylan is a “plagiarist”, Mitchell explains:
>>>>>> “It’s not like I outed him. He stole all of his lines out of a Japanese
>>>>>> hoodlum’s novel. There was a lawsuit impending, but it got dropped. He
>>>>>> told me ‘I haven’t written a song in years.’ I said, ‘What’re you
>>>>>> talking about? Who’s writing them, then?’ He came down to craft.”
>>>>> 
>>>>> "If Dylan's a poet, I'm a basketball player." --Norman Mailer Novelist
>>>> 
>>>> If you call Bob Dylan...Literature
>>>> 
>>>> they should give the Nobel Prize to the guy who writes Spiderman comic
>>>> books..
>>>> 
>>>> that is what i call...Literature.
>>> 
>>> Joyce Carol Oates, who is often mentioned as a Nobel contender, called
>>> the committee’s choice “inspired,” but suggested that the surviving
>>> Beatles might be more deserving. “Arguably, their music is as
>>> significant, or more significant, than Bob Dylan’s work,” she said in an
>>> email.
>> 
>> Of course the responce "the committe" would give is..."But Paul McCartney is 
>> not Jewish!"
>> 
>> Let me tell you a little story
>> about a 18 year old boy
>> who wanted a career of
>> an artist...
>> He decided to attend the
>> prestigious Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
>> In October 1907 he withdrew his inheritance
>> money from the bank and went to live
>> and study in Vienna.
>> 
>> He took the two day entrance exam for
>> the academy's school of painting.
>> Confident and self assured, he awaited the result,
>> quite sure he would get in.
>> But failure struck him like a bolt of lightning.
>> His test drawings were judged unsatisfactory and he was not admitted.
>> He was badly shaken by this rejection.
>>  He went back to the academy to get an explanation and
>>  was told his drawings showed a lack of talent for artistic painting,
>> notably a lack of appreciation of the human form.
>> He was told, however, that he had some ability for the field of 
>> architecture.
>> 
>> He applied again a year later..
>>  he was rejected twice by the
>> "admission committee judges" of Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts.
>> 
>>  He later wrote a book which he wrote:,
>> "That gentleman [the rector] assured me that the drawings I had submitted 
>> incontrovertibly showed my unfitness for painting."
>> 
>> That book became a national best seller... Mein Kampf.
>> 
>> And he said afterwards..."I bet they regret rejecting me now!"
>> 
>> Don't get Paul McCartney angry.
>> 
>> Otherwise, you're gonna get what you ask for...
>
>
> Paul McCartney is probably screaming right now..."WHAT THE FUCK IS THE 
> PROBLEM WITH THOSE FUCKING PEOPLE??"
>
>
> Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize 'Committee', said today 
> that President Obama  “really ought to consider” returning his Nobel Peace 
> Prize Medal immediately, including the “really nice” case it came in. 
>
>
> And Obama is probably saying right now..."That's it, they are asking for it. 
> I'M GOING TO WIPE OUT THE WHOLE FUCKING 'COMMITTE'!!!"
>
>
>  ...and the 18 year old boy says, "I told you guys, you got to kill them 
> ALL!!!" "I was doing you guys a favor!" 
>
>
> And Bob Dylan sez "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a 
> joke"


If Bob Dylan got it, I think Leonard Cohen should get it too.

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Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-10-13 09:37 -0700
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