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Jarod

Jarod

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Teddy Kennedy got a better funeral than Reagan or Ford...

What gives? I know he was a hero and all, but it was really an awsome funeral... I guess the Kennedy's have had a lot of practice... but the outpouring of love and support for this man was great, and unexpected my me!
 
tinfoil said:
Some of us are more equal than others
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It appears that it depends on how much you are loved/respected by those who know you. Crowds stoped the funeral procession in the streets of Boston to show there respect. A huge crowd appeared on the steps of the Capital. Senators, Congressmen, past-presidents, vice-presidents and the president paid respect and lined up to speak about what a great man he was!
 
Apparently I've been trying too hard. If I continue on trying to be a decent and honorable man, no one may even notice when I die.

But if I live down to Teddy's level, then when I die, I will be a fucking hero, with national processions, flowers aplenty, and beautiful girls weeping...
 
T&A said:
Apparently I've been trying too hard. If I continue on trying to be a decent and honorable man, no one may even notice when I die.

But if I live down to Teddy's level, then when I die, I will be a fucking hero, with national processions, flowers aplenty, and beautiful girls weeping...
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No, what you need to do is admit you are not perfect yet try to have a posative effect on the world anyway. If you accomplish as much as Kennedy did for the common man.. YOu may be remembered as fondly.
 
How is it that I suspect that Michael Jackson's funeral will be even better attended with even more famous people making flowering speeches?...
 
Damocles said:
How is it that I suspect that Michael Jackson's funeral will be even better attended with even more famous people making flowering speeches?...
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MJ's funeral already happened, I did not hear of any former presidents attending. The president did not attend. The VP did not attend. Not even one very Conservative Republican was on television crying.
 
Jarod said:
MJ's funeral already happened, I did not hear of any former presidents attending. The president did not attend. The VP did not attend. Not even one very Conservative Republican was on television crying.
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Don't you have to have a burial, cremation or some other type of body disposal for a funeral to have occurred?

They did put a coffin on a stage and said some nice things about him but he's still hanging about on a shelf somewhere rather than in the ground.
 
Jarod said:
MJ's funeral already happened, I did not hear of any former presidents attending. The president did not attend. The VP did not attend. Not even one very Conservative Republican was on television crying.
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No, it didn't. A memorial is not a funeral.

Today he'll be buried. I suspect there will be more flowery speeches...

MJ's funeral is so large it couldn't even be contained in a day! That must mean he is a better leader than all the Presidents combined since Lincoln! Even Churchill didn't get weeks of activity around his corpse... MJ is a better leader than all leaders of nations because people made speeches at his funeral.
 
charver said:
Don't you have to have a burial, cremation or some other type of body disposal for a funeral to have occurred?

They did put a coffin on a stage and said some nice things about him but he's still hanging about on a shelf somewhere rather than in the ground.
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I guess I thought it was a funeral without a burial. Ive attended several such funerals. Especally in the north where the ground is too frozen to dig a hole in the winter. The interrment, is held seperatly and is often just a few family members.
 
Damocles said:
No, it didn't. A memorial is not a funeral.

Today he'll be buried. I suspect there will be more flowery speeches...

MJ's funeral is so large it couldn't even be contained in a day, that must mean he is a better leader than all the Presidents combined... Even Churchill didn't get weeks of activity around his corpse... MJ is a better leader than all leaders of nations because people made speeches at his funeral.
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A funeral's size is not a measure of the person.
 
My father was not burried at the time of his funeral.


Several months later my sisters, his wife and I spread his ashes in the water a mile or so from his favorate beach.
 
I think were all forgetting the salient point that Ted Kennedy could not, and i repeat, could not moonwalk.
 
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