Comments on: Old song about emasculating Castro by giving him a crew cut http://boingboing.net/2009/11/02/old-song-about-emasc.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 04:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Daemon http://boingboing.net/2009/11/02/old-song-about-emasc.html#comment-625930 Daemon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-625930 The CIA in the 1960s seems to have had no idea how to conduct an assassination.... or almost anything else. Everything I read about them comes off sounding like very bad comic book plots. The CIA in the 1960s seems to have had no idea how to conduct an assassination…. or almost anything else. Everything I read about them comes off sounding like very bad comic book plots.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/11/02/old-song-about-emasc.html#comment-625745 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-625745 As I recall reading somewhere (probably in one of the excellent Bathroom Readers series), the CIA actually approached Ian Fleming and asked him for ideas and he provided them with a few ideas including LSD on Castro's SCUBA mouthpiece combined with itching powder in his wetsuit, to make him go crazy and drown; thallium salts in his cigars or hat to make his manly beard and hair fall out and thus emmasculate him; projecting a massive religious icon in the sky above Cuba to induce revolution against communism; and probably more that the CIA never actually tried. As I recall reading somewhere (probably in one of the excellent Bathroom Readers series), the CIA actually approached Ian Fleming and asked him for ideas and he provided them with a few ideas including LSD on Castro’s SCUBA mouthpiece combined with itching powder in his wetsuit, to make him go crazy and drown; thallium salts in his cigars or hat to make his manly beard and hair fall out and thus emmasculate him; projecting a massive religious icon in the sky above Cuba to induce revolution against communism; and probably more that the CIA never actually tried.

]]> By: macho http://boingboing.net/2009/11/02/old-song-about-emasc.html#comment-625755 macho Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-625755 "Why did people in the 1960s think Castro's hair was so magical?" surviving dozens of cia assasination attempts not enough? “Why did people in the 1960s think Castro’s hair was so magical?”

surviving dozens of cia assasination attempts not enough?

]]> By: robcat2075 http://boingboing.net/2009/11/02/old-song-about-emasc.html#comment-626011 robcat2075 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-626011 If that was a catchy tune for the 60's I can understand how people were ready for something like the Beatles to come along show what music could really be again. If that was a catchy tune for the 60′s I can understand how people were ready for something like the Beatles to come along show what music could really be again.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/11/02/old-song-about-emasc.html#comment-625759 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-625759 Fidel and Raul swore they would not shave their beards until the revolution was successful. That's also why they continue to wear fatigues. Fidel and Raul swore they would not shave their beards until the revolution was successful. That’s also why they continue to wear fatigues.

]]> By: robcat2075 http://boingboing.net/2009/11/02/old-song-about-emasc.html#comment-626015 robcat2075 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-626015 I am also struck but the just awful production quality. Listen to the chorus on the accompanying "I-O-WA" song. It's like they are not even trying to sing together. The trombone solo is awful too. I am also struck but the just awful production quality. Listen to the chorus on the accompanying “I-O-WA” song. It’s like they are not even trying to sing together.

The trombone solo is awful too.

]]> By: wgmleslie http://boingboing.net/2009/11/02/old-song-about-emasc.html#comment-625775 wgmleslie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-625775 Once, Fidel Castro's beard gave a 6 1/2 hour speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Once, Fidel Castro’s beard gave a 6 1/2 hour speech to the United Nations General Assembly.

]]> By: mreddy1 http://boingboing.net/2009/11/02/old-song-about-emasc.html#comment-629638 mreddy1 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-629638 "Why did people in the 1960s think Castro's hair was so magical?" because his beard is so lucious. “Why did people in the 1960s think Castro’s hair was so magical?”

because his beard is so lucious.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/11/02/old-song-about-emasc.html#comment-625817 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-625817 I think It was only Fidel who swore not to shave. I don't think Raul ever had a beard... I think It was only Fidel who swore not to shave. I don’t think Raul ever had a beard…

]]> By: devophill http://boingboing.net/2009/11/02/old-song-about-emasc.html#comment-625866 devophill Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-625866 I could tell from the title this was a song-poem. I could tell from the title this was a song-poem.

]]> By: kmoser http://boingboing.net/2009/11/02/old-song-about-emasc.html#comment-626157 kmoser Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-626157 Has the copyright on that song expired? Because if it hasn't, ripping it to MP3 format and posting it online would be, er, copyright infringement. Has the copyright on that song expired? Because if it hasn’t, ripping it to MP3 format and posting it online would be, er, copyright infringement.

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