On a Tuesday afternoon in October 1971, Elvis Presley famously stopped outside Benson’s Pharmacy in Memphis after seeing 12-year-old Tommy Richardson playing a battered guitar to earn $17 for his sick mother’s medicine.
Upon learning the boy had only raised one dollar after three hours of playing, Elvis paid for the prescription himself, gave the boy $100 for groceries, and personally drove him home in his Cadillac.
I wonder if those two beautiful young ladies were Elvis' dates.
ReplyDeleteNo one gave a shit until Elvis stopped by. Then they couldn't stay away. The logo on that headstock looks like Martin. Bacon was 69 cents a pound in1971.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's all right, mama
ReplyDeleteThat's all right for you
That's all right mama, just anyway you do
Evil Elvis. Gyrating those hips. Getting them girls all worked up. Sacrilege. Tsk tsk. Revolting.
Now we’ve got an international superstar shaking bootie during the superbowl and this dumb bunny fed administration wants to investigate the NFL for indecency. History repeats itself.
Why is it news when a rich man gives a poor boy money? And not even that much money for him.
ReplyDeleteOddly that says a lot about how often you've helped others.
DeleteKindness requires a certain % of your wealth or it doesn't count?
Michael, kindness requires the act to be done. Selflessly.
DeleteThat % bs is a made up holdover from ancient days and church elders enriching the church coffers (read pockets).
Nowhere in the good book is there a passage about percentages.
"Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram, saying, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand." Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything." Genesis 14:18-20
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So under what logic or evidence do you show Elvis wasn't acting out of selfless kindness?
DeleteThat one of the constant paparazzi around him caught him in the act?
Yeah. 1971.
ReplyDeleteWhen Tha Kanng walked among us.
Elvis was a decent sort. I hated to see him go as he did. When he was drafted, he went without complaint, unlike a certain boxer who changed his name from Cassius Clay.
ReplyDeleteUnlike other 'protesters,' he paid the price. Lost his title, stripped of three years of his career in his prime, and convicted of draft evasion although his sentence was overturned. For what it's worth, I served.
DeleteBack when people were ALLOWED to be decent.
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