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you remind me of one of the best statements i ever heard newman make in an interview (long time ago). although known for refusing to discuss his personal life, newman did finally respond when this interviewer asked why he thought his marriage was so long-lasting. he sighed, paused, and said: "you know, it's such a throwaway society. in our house, when the toaster breaks, we fix it."

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This has me bummed today. Paul has long been one of my favorite people ever. The man is flawless in my eyes...the philanthropy, the good nature, the humor, the talent, that incredible face. He was married to Joanne for 50(!) years and seeing them together in recent television programs was inspiring, they were so at ease with and in love with one another. The man really lived in a way most people don't realize is possible.

 

So long, you dear man.

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The wisdom of Paul:

"I am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet."

 

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Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes

Long as I have my plastic Jesus

Riding on the dashboard of my car

I could go a hundred miles an hour

Long as I got the almighty power

Glued up there with my pair of fuzzy dice

 

{Refrain - repeat between verses}

Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus

Riding on the dashboard of my car

Through all trials and tribulations

We will travel every nation

With my plastic Jesus I'll go far

 

I don't care if it rains or snowses

Long as I got my plastic Moses

Riding on the dashboard of my car

Through all trials and tribulations

We will travel every nation

Me and plastic Moses will go far

 

I don't care if it rains or freezes

As long as I've got my plastic Jesus

Glued to the dashboard of my car

You can buy Him phosphorescent

Glows in the dark, He's pink and pleasant

Take Him with you when you're travelling far

 

I don't care if it's dark or scary

Long as I have magnetic Mary

Ridin' on the dashboard of my car

I feel I'm protected amply

I've got the whole damn holy family

Riding on the dashboard of my car

 

You can buy a sweet Madonna

Dressed in rhinestones sitting on a

Pedestal of abalone shell

Goin' ninety, I'm not wary

'Cause I've got my virgin Mary

Guaranteeing I won't go to Hell

 

I don't care what they say, I'm gonna

Keep on prayin' to that pink Madonna

Melted to the dashboard of my car

Goin' ninety, I'm not wary

'Cause I've got my Virgin Mary

Guaranteeing I won't go to Hell

 

I don't care if it bumps or jostles

Long as I got the twelve apostles

Bolted to the dashboard of my car

Don't I have a pious mess

Such a crowd of holiness

Strung across the dashboard of my car

 

When pedestrians try to cross

I let them know who's boss

I never blow my horn or give them warning

I ride all over town

Trying to run them down

And it's seldom that they live to see the morning

 

{As refrain}

Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus

Riding on the dashboard of my car

His halo fits just right

And I use it as a sight

And they'll scatter or they'll splatter near and far

 

God made Christ a holy Jew

God made Him a Christian too

Paradoxes populate my car

Joseph beams with a feigned elan

From the shaggy dash of my furlined van

Famous cuckold in the master plan

 

Naughty Mary, smug and smiling

Jesus dainty and beguiling

Knee-deep in the piling of my van

His message clear by night or day

My phosphorescent plastic gay

Simpering from the dashboard of my van

 

{As refrain}

Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus

Riding on the dashboard of my car

Once his robe was snowy white

Now it isn't quite so bright

Stained by the smoke of my cigar

 

When I'm goin' fornicatin'

I got my ceramic Satan

Sinnin' on the dashboard of my Winnebago motor home

The women know I'm on the level

Thanks to the wild-eyed stoneware devil

Ridin' on the dashboard of my Winnebago motor home

Sneerin' from the dashboard of my Winnebago motor home

Leering from the dashboard of my van

 

I don't care if I'm broke or starvin'

As long as I've got a fish named Darwin

Glued to the trunk lid of my car

God, I'm feeling so evolved

Drivin' with my problems solved

Proclaiming what I think of what we are

 

Riding home one foggy night

With my honey cuddled tight

I missed a curve and off the road we veered

My windshield got smashed-up good

And my darling graced the hood

Plastic Jesus, He had disappeared

 

{As Refrain}

Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus,

No longer chides me with His holy grin

Doctors in the X-ray room

Found Him in my darling's womb

Someday, He'll be born again!

 

I don't care if it rains or freezes

Long as I got my plastic Jesus

Riding on the dashboard of my car

He's the dude with the rusty nails

Walks on water, don't need no sails

Riding on the dashboard of me car

 

I don't care if the night is scary

As long as I got the virgin Mary

Sittin' on the dashboard of my car

She don't slip and she don't slide

'Cause her ass is magnetized

Sittin' on the dashboard of my car

 

 

you'll be sorely missed Paul.

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