Comments on: The King is Dead https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/16/the-king-is-dead-1/ Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:20:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: mk https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/16/the-king-is-dead-1/#comment-542108 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:20:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/16/the-king-is-dead-1/#comment-542108 Volkswagon Squareback! Awesome! Had much good times in one of those… and a ’67 bug and a Fastback! (don’t remember the year.)

Oh… and Elvis? Meh.

Cool story, though.

]]> By: Alcari https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/16/the-king-is-dead-1/#comment-542107 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:07:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/16/the-king-is-dead-1/#comment-542107 “Elvis Presley died on this day, August 16th, 1977.”

Lies! He’s alive and plays poker every night with bigfoot, The Bell Witch and Michael Jackson. I know it’s true because the ghost of Paul McCartney told me so.

]]> By: The Science Pundit https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/16/the-king-is-dead-1/#comment-542106 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:28:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/16/the-king-is-dead-1/#comment-542106 Poor Groucho Marx got robbed out of a national mourning in much the way Farrah Fawcet did.

]]> By: Mike Haubrich, FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/16/the-king-is-dead-1/#comment-542105 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:58:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/16/the-king-is-dead-1/#comment-542105 If not for the whole Vegas Spangle Suit/crappy movies/gospel stuff, I would be a bigger fan. He was great, but then the music industry machine pressed him like so much wax.

Still like my peanut butter and banana sandwiches, though.

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