lost clue

Posted on June 13th, 2007 by Scraps.
Categories: Music, Songs, Untruths.

I'm not familiar with the whole list of Paul Is Dead clues, so I may well be repeating an old one that I've never heard:

Was "Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes" ever cited as a Paul Is Dead clue?

6 comments.

Ahkond

Comment on June 13th, 2007.

I don't think so. This is pretty exhaustive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Is_Dead

Kip W

Comment on June 13th, 2007.

I don't actually remember hearing this one, but some of that blurs together. There's a book on "The Great Beatle Death Clues" (they seem to have reprinted it in the US with a different title) and you might be able to get it from inter-library loan.

I think I've mentioned this recently. Before the whole "Paul is Dead" thing started showing up on the radio, my sisters were convinced somehow that these exact same clues would lead whoever figured them out to a rendezvous at a certain time (Wednesday morning at five o'clock) and place where they'd be picked up in a helicopter and taken to the Beatles' private island for a mystery tour of the magical variety.

Kip W

Comment on June 13th, 2007.

("Here's my advice to those who die... declare the pennies on your eyes.")

Ooh! The anti-spam word is walrus. Did YOU do that?

cleek

Comment on June 13th, 2007.

wiki doesn't have anything to say about it.

no offense, of course, but doesn't this one seem pretty obvious?

how could it have been missed for so long?

Scraps

Comment on June 15th, 2007.

Kip, I do choose the list of spam-catching words, though not which ones show up when.

I guess it's a stretch as a clue since "Penny Lane" doesn't really mean "pennies", and what does pennies in your ear mean, anyway?

Kip W

Comment on June 15th, 2007.

As a clue in a murder mystery or a crossword, yeah, it's a stretch. As a clue in the "Paul Is Dead" business, it's very much in the middle. Walking barefoot means he's dead? "He bought a tooth" means a walrus tusk, and walrus means he's dead? In the context of some of the classic clues, it's darn near sane.

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