"That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor. You know, and we are humorous, we are, what are they, Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot." -- John Lennon (b. 1940-10-09, d. 1980-12-08), 1969-05-08
[To my Catholic friends, a blessed Feast of the Immaculate Conception. (AFAIK, the immaculate conception of Mary is not a solely Catholic belief -- though mostly so? -- but I don't think anybody else celebrates it as a feast day / holy day ... but I'm more than a little bit fuzzy on this.)]