“Jim Dandy waves his stick over and around about the rock in a meaningless-meaningful way.”

— William Saroyan

Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)

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William Saroyan 190

American writer 1908–1981

Thomas Percy (Bishop of Dromore)

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“…Jim ‘the Blue Panther’ Rock…”

Jimmy Magee (1935–2017) Gaelic games commentatot

Magee's mistaken description of Jim "The Pink Panther" Rock live on RTÉ's Pro Box Live in 2007.
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Ben Croshaw (1983) English video game journalist

21 March 2007
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“Immigration is where Trump’s journey begins and ends: the message running all the way through this stick of rock.”

Richard Wolffe (1968) American journalist

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“Nothing weird about that as long as you do it in a meaningful way.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

Oui interview (1979)
Context: There isn’t anything weird about my music. Weird is a skeleton in the closet, wearing a rubber mask with warts all over its nose, and all that kind of shit. That’s not what I do. The thing that makes my music unusual is that people only hear one kind of music all the time over the radio. It’s wallpaper to their lives. Audile wallpaper. There’s one acceptable beat and there are three acceptable chord progressions. There are five acceptable words: baby, love, tears, yat yat. Just because I don’t deal in those terms doesn’t mean I’m weird. So tell these people: I ain’t weird; I’m rational. I’m a person who can choose to write stuff like that, or choose to write stuff that includes all the notes on the piano played at once, followed by a cement truck driving over the piano, followed by a small atomic explosion. Nothing weird about that as long as you do it in a meaningful way.