Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC
Didn’t get to bed last night
Stayed up putting Semtex in my BVDs
Man I had a dreadful flight!I’m back in the I.S.I.L.
You prob’ly won’t live to tell, boy
Back in the I.S.I.L.!
Sorry. I suppose that’s in poor taste. But I didn’t start it. It’s the British press that’s calling these four terrorists “the Beatles:”
Exhausted and strikingly different in appearance from the other captives, the two new prisoners were believed by Kurdish militia leaders to be among Islamic State’s cadre of foreign fighters.
But it was not until mid-January, around one week after their capture in eastern Syria, that the Kurds – and their CIA colleagues at the interrogation centre where they were holding the prisoners – knew exactly who they had: Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, Britain’s two most wanted terror suspects. They had finally been caught – and they were ready to talk.
Kotey and Elsheikh are the final two of an infamous quartet of Britons who acted as jailers, torturers and executioners of foreign aid workers and journalists for more than two years from mid-2013. They were dubbed “the Beatles” by their victims, in reference to their British accents – though they were from London, rather than Merseyside…
I used to have pleasant, light-hearted associations with the Fab Four. Now this…
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Quincy Jones said the Beatles sucked… I kind of have to agree, their music is almost as bad as the Beach Boys.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/quincy-jones-on-michael-jackson-beatles-trump-w516472
He wasn’t talking about their music. He was talking about their ability to physically PLAY the music. I’m not surprised if he wasn’t that impressed with their playing; he was probably used to session musicians who could play rings around them.
I’d be very surprised if he wasn’t impressed with Lennon and McCartney as songwriters, though…
They likely have nothing on the Dead Kennedys.