I've just been reading some funny Beatles articles, one of which is a bunch of
clues that all the Beatles are dead BUT Paul... LOL
So how come there's no "Robin is dead" rumor or anything? huh??? we
could start SOMETHING.... maybe not Robin is dead but... SOMETHING...
might be fun? LOL
Bethie:
hmmmm we will start the rumour that Rob sleepwalks, in
fuzzy slippers?
earth immigrant:
fuzzy pink slippers with bunny ears and eyes and a nose in the front and a big
cottontail at the heel.... he's been known to walk all the way to Barry's house
and bang on the door till someone lets him in... one time he was singing--
"There's no light in the night; this backyard is dark as hell; you swim again"--
Barry scribbled it down and remembered the melody but in the morning he
couldn't read all of the writing.... since Robin had been asleep when he wrote
it, Barry claimed it as his own....
Bethie:
Geeesh, you are Neptunian! No Human would think of
this!
earth immigrant:
Yep, and that intro to the song You Win Again?? Well that came from the
next night, when Rob showed up at Maurice's house, and it was trash night, so
naturally he tripped all over trash cans as he made his way up the drive way...
Maurice heard the racket, and while Rob was walking up the hill kicking one trash can with alternating feet all the way in a rather nicely rythmic pattern, he ran to the front door to stop Rob from waking the whole neighbourhood. Rob was singing again, that same song from last night, only this time it was just melody and incoherant babble for lyrics. Besides, who could hear anything over the trash can?
It just so happened that Maurice had long since been trying to convince Robin that yes, in fact, he DID sleep-walk. Robin refused to believe this, and it was only when Maurice awoke him by hitting him over the head with the trash can lid that Robin believed him. There was a bet on the matter, and Maurice won fifty dollars that night. He'd already won fifty dollars that week from Robin on a Badminton match, so Rob handed over the cash while mumbling "you win again..."
Maurice suddenly recalled the melody Robin had been yakking all the way up the driveway, and disregarding all concern for waking the neighbors in favour of his art, began slamming two trash can lids together and singing what he'd seen written on a piece of paper Barry had dropped the day before- the very piece of paper on which he'd translated the previous night's scribble... it was the best Maurice could remember from Barry's odd translation (which somehow involved snails and pickled beets, which was probably why it 'fell' out of his pocket and into the trash can in the first place.... Maurice's thing for trash digging would be another story entirely if it hadn't been the gut of THIS story...), and somehow he put it together reasonably with the new line Robin had inadvertantly given him to become what we now know as "You Win Again."
I might add... yes in fact I think I WILL add.... that there was a bit of mutual blackmail involved here.... Robin had seen Barry drop the piece of paper in the trash. Maurice's little trash-digging escapade was not a secret anymore, and Robin had always suspected that it was a regular occurance. He threatened to tell the world that Maurice was a trash digger (just where did you *think* he got that wild jacket with the planets all over it that he wore in the early 70's??) unless Maurice promised never to tell anyone about Rob's sleep-walking. Maurice pointed out that he had a LOT more on Robin than just sleep walking.. "look at your slippers, for God's sake!!"... so this is why Barry still doesn't know that the other two let him talk not because he's "better at it" as Maurice once fibbed, but actually because when he faces the interviewer instead of them, it gives them a better view of the purple smiley face that Maurice had tattooed on the back of Barry's neck in the late 60's while Barry was sound asleep and perhaps a bit drunk one night. Barry *still* doesn't know it's there.... LOL