Jimmy Responds to the NY Post Article

Post by **phjim** » October 6, 2006 9:29 pm

Jimmy's response to the article in the NY Post "Buffett Caught With Club Drug" is posted at Margaritaville.com.

"What happened? A message from Jimmy Buffett..."
http://margaritaville.com/JB_statement.php

Post by **phjim** » October 6, 2006 9:29 pm

What happened? A message from Jimmy Buffett...
POSTED OCTOBER 6, 2006

I have tried over the years, to live below the radar when it comes to the "celebrity" thing. I see what I do as just a job, a really fun job that has opened the world, its people and places. However, I seem to still have a way of causing commotion now and then.

In Toulon, we arrived at the private terminal to leave and were moving through security, when my captain informed me that we were being ramp checked by French customs and some plainclothes guys. This is nothing new but what was strange was that the search was being conducted as we were leaving - not as we were arriving. No big deal - I thought. I found my bag and opened it up and they went right for a little pouch which contained my prescription medicines which was sitting on top of my clothes, not the most secretive part of my bag. I don't know about you, but at a few months away from turning sixty, I carry a few prescriptions, including a B vitamin supplement, called Foltx.

Well, that's the one that deflated the party balloon for when they examined them you could see a heart on the pill. "Ecstasy," they said. I have never taken it and couldn't tell you the difference between a hit of ecstasy and Excedrin PM. My vices these days consist of boat drinks, beer, wine and the occasional hot fudge sundae. I hadn't even opened the bottle, because my secretary had made a mistake and had sent the wrong prescription. I don't use Foltx any more.

I knew Foltx was a vitamin supplement not a love drug. I paid the fine, gathered my bags and my friends and as soon as they opened that door, I walked, rather rapidly towards my plane and flew out.

In Toulon, the stern faced authorities couldn't take the truth as the simple answer to a few simple questions, trying to turn vitamins into ecstasy. In these days and times, the truth sadly gets lost in the gossip at an alarming rate.

In the end, I will just chalk it up as being something that will happen if you have an adventurous soul and live a nomad life. I will, as my old hero Mark Twain put it, be "lighting out into the territory". The great old humorist Lord Richard Buckley used to say in one of his routines that humor is the absence of terror and that terror is the absence of humor. It seems there are too many people in the world intent on building fences, not bridges between cultures and fueling misinformation with heightened suspicions and senseless interrogations. I never was, nor do I ever intend to answer to or become one of those people. I will take my cue from Lord Buckley and keep on singing and laughing. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

- Jimmy Buffett
Over the Atlantic and on the way home

balcony girls · Post by **balcony girls** » October 6, 2006 9:33 pm

. .thanks, Jimmy . .for personally replying to your phriends. . . .

. .safe travels . .

conched · Post by **conched** » October 6, 2006 9:38 pm

My hero!

springparrot · Post by **springparrot** » October 6, 2006 9:38 pm

Thank you, Jimmy

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » October 6, 2006 9:53 pm

Ecstasy (in some of its many forms):

Folx:

bryan_05 · Post by **bryan_05** » October 6, 2006 10:00 pm

Class act! I love Jimmy.

triathlete-parakeet · Post by **triathlete-parakeet** » October 6, 2006 10:04 pm

Dont think Mel Gibson could've said it better

Thanks a lot Jimmy.

Ceol na Mara · Post by **Ceol na Mara** » October 6, 2006 10:10 pm

Thanks, Jimmy. You had no obligation to explain to us, so it means all the more to us that you did. Illegitimi Non Carborundum. And welcome home!

And thanks, Jen, for the informative comparison!

Post by **SMLCHNG** » October 6, 2006 10:23 pm

Ceol na Mara wrote:Thanks, Jimmy. You had no obligation to explain to us, so it means all the more to us that you did. Illegitimi Non Carborundum. And welcome home!
And thanks, Jen, for the informative comparison!

Yep, yep, and yep!!

backbeat · Post by **backbeat** » October 6, 2006 10:27 pm

Illegitimi Non Carborundum

"Don't let the bastards grind you down"

According to Safire's New Political Dictionary, this is "a pseudo-Latin phrase meaning 'don't let the bastards grind you down'. Small signs and plaques carrying this message have appeared in U.S. business offices and army posts for at least a generation, since General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell used it as his motto in World War II. Carborundum is a trademark for silicon carbide, a leading commercial grinding substance...In politics, the motto was popularized by 1964 Republican nominee Senator Barry Goldwater, who hung the sign in his office." (--from Safire's New Political Dictionary, p. 353)

Source: Safire, William Safire's New Political Dictionary : The Definitive Guide to the New Language of Politics Random House, New York, 1993. (R 320.03 Sa1)

MacPhin · Post by **MacPhin** » October 6, 2006 10:35 pm

thanks jimmy for setting the record straight.

personally, i didn't think you had it on you but i don't really know you. "they say" you should go with your gut. my gut was right.

Quiet and Shy · Post by **Quiet and Shy** » October 6, 2006 10:47 pm

Bravo, JB.

Tiki Bar · Post by **Tiki Bar** » October 6, 2006 10:53 pm

phjim wrote:That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

- Jimmy Buffett
Over the Atlantic and on the way home

BRAVO!

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » October 6, 2006 10:53 pm

Listening to Brent Burns...

Jimmys Next Cover???

FTF???

LonePalm1 · Post by **LonePalm1** » October 6, 2006 11:02 pm

Thank you for replying to your fans personally. We of course dont want to see you on "hard copy"

Conolulu · Post by **Conolulu** » October 6, 2006 11:05 pm

Thank you Jimmy!

Like they said....Class Act!

JustDucky · Post by **JustDucky** » October 6, 2006 11:28 pm

I don't think I've read anywhere on BN that anyone thinks Jimmy did anything wrong but I'd like to point out one thing - the media jumped on something stupid that was not true, just like what happened last year with Wayne Gretzky and the gambling fiasco.

Like the song says, lip service. What a bunch of crap!

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » October 6, 2006 11:42 pm

It seems there are too many people in the world intent on building fences, not bridges between cultures...

...and there, in less than 20 words, is why I'm a Parrothead.

gingerbreadman · Post by **gingerbreadman** » October 6, 2006 11:54 pm

Jimmy's response makes a whole lotta sense to me.