Leon Grodski

great balls of fire
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Good luck penny.

Excuse me, what is your opinion of the World Trade Center?
Great Balls of Fire! Goodness Gracious! Whole lot of shaking going on!
Why did this happen today? Or yesterday? Or the day before?
Because these people are fanatics. To them the World Trade Center was the Towers of Babylon. And they brought down the towers of sin. The craziest people in the world live in America. Not overseas. That’s right.
You got people still fighting the Civil War. Right here, right in this country.
Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, even New York City, upstate.
They still want to see black people in slavery. They’re fighting the Civil War and the Civil War was over a hundred years ago.
Why the hell do you think Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
a whole lot of shaking, a whole lot of shaking going on.
I didn’t do it. I didn’t do it.
Could you help a guy, young man?
Every time something they always say a black man did it.
Put it on the black man.
But I didn‚t do it.
A whole lot of shaking, a whole lot of shaking going on.
You ain‚t nothing but a hound dog, crying all the time.
Hey, can you help us?
I just read in one of the tabloids that the reason why the atom bomb was dropped
was to get rid of Godzilla.
Yrd! The atom bomb was dropped to destroy Godzilla and his eggs, because Godzilla was like a monster that could not be destroyed by nuclear weapons, so they had to destroy Godzilla because Godzilla would eventually destroy America.
And they say these people are nuts. These people ain’t nuts. They’re quite sane.
They say you got to be a nut to take a plane and crash it into a building.
Oh yeah!.?

Well look what happened in 1963?
John F Kennedy was asassinated.
And guess what happened in Dallas, Texas?
They celebrated!
and a whole lot of shaking, a whole lot of shaking going on.
They talk about in Patterson, New Jersey, people took to the streets and they
were celebrating, in Dallas, Texas, crackers, redneck crackers were celebrating
his assassination.
No who’s crazy? Who’s crazy?

Footbals games went on, governement went on,
nobody shut down in Dallas, nobody shut down in Houston.
It was a celebration.
Now, who’s nuts? We’re talking about these people are nuts?
We got nuts right over here, nut city right over here.
When you’re hot you’re hot, when you’re not you’re not.
Come on mama baby, Jerry’s got the bull by the horns.
Goodness Gracious! Great Balls of Fire!
Whole lot of shaking going on.

How you all doing out there? How you all doing?

“Nuke the West Bank”
Put that cigarette out, don’t you see all the smoke in the air.
“Get some cold water, some cold water over here.”

And we’re going to talk about other countries, get the fuck out of here!
“Martin Luther King ’get out of here, get out of here!
This country can’t talk about nobody.
I know what you’re thinking, I’m a crazy nigger! (laughs)
And a whole lot of shaking”

Excuse me sir, could you beam me up? There’s no intelligent life down here.
Ay, Ay captain, we’re having problems with the dillenium crystals.
Captain, she’s gonna blow, she’s gonna blow!

Stop lying!

A whole lot of shaking, a whole lot of shaking going on!

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