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Just celebrating John Lennon's life today, on this December 8th, the anniversary of his death.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZC7sqImaM

Soooooo...is THAT "all you are saying" here, Keith?!

Well then, I suppose I can dig the message here, alright!

(...can you believe it's been 30 years since that fateful day?!...where does the time go, eh?!)

I would have considered John the best of the four Beatles if it wasn't for Yoko Ono's influence on some of his music. John made some of the best, and certainly the worst music of all four Beatles. I don't blame Yoko for breaking up the Beatles, that was happening with or without her, but her finger print is all over some of John's music that I can only say is less than listenable.

Tom

Hard to believe it's been 30 years already since we lost John.

maybe its for the best. He'd be worse than Bono if he was alive today..haha

Wow, 30 years ago. Makes me feel a bit old. I still remember that night. I was in my dorm room studying (unusual, but it was a monday night) with the radio tuned to the local rock station. They broke into what ever song was playing with the news he had been shot. At that point, it was condition unknown and we will fill you in when we have more. They then cued up Imagine, and switched to what would become an all Lennon/Beatles format for the rest of the night. I remember cranking it up and walking out into the hallway at pretty much the same time as several other people doing the exact same thing, talking and waiting for more news. It wasnt long befopre we had it.

yep that was terrible news that day. And all he was sayin was give peas a chance.

Thats what you get... shot four times in the chest. It would never of happened to Chuck Norris.
I have no idea why I said that.

Never! I hate peas.

try to imagine...whirled peas! ok...

I worked in the Precinct where he lived and died. I remember the Dakota apartment house as having a very friendly doorman who would let me use his locker room to write affidavits for the tickets I gave to cars and people.

He also would keep an eagle eye out for my Sergeant and give me a heads up if he was around.

Many years later my Sergeant was my Captain and I was now a Lieutenant. He was still a very decent guy.

I tend to remember the good things about me career as a cop and I have long ago forgotten most of the bad but I can still recall the smell of a really ripe DOA.

If you have never experienced it ask a Vietnam Vet or a WWII vet if you can still find any around. The stink of death gets into your pores and lingers for days.

If you want to experience it....take a piece of cheap meat and put it in a garbage can and let it ripen for about 5 days in the sun. After it gets nice ripe and has a coating of maggots all over it open the can and take a deep whiff.

Just think of having to spend 8 hours with a human who smelt like that in a small hotel room. Imagine having to go back to that same room with the same body for 3 days in a row. Those kinds of things happened to rookie cops in the days when I was a rookie.

The ME's office was not in any big rush to pick up a body that was not out in the open displayed to the public. A body in a SRO (Single Room Occupancy) hotel was really low on the priority list.

As a rookie I could count on DOA's and Psycho escorts as a regular item on my menue when I was not FLYING to another precinct to cover an embassy or whatever. It is a wonder more of us did not quit when we first started out.

Geez Dan, I gotta say if THIS is your roundabout way of sayin' you always thought much of John's post-Beatles music stunk...then dude, just SAY so, OKAY???!!!

And so I click on this thread I started, looking forward to the possibility of some warm sentiment towards the late, great John. And as I often do, I came to my computer desk with snack in hand eager to catch up on the latest at ba.com.

Think I'll skip dinner tonight.

Yeah Keith. I was just about to also mention to Dan that at 5:05pm EST and where Dan hails from, it was just about supper time when he posted that!!!

(...but you know those hardy New Yahkahs...readin' somethin' like this wouldn't faze 'em or kill their appetite at all...right Dan?!)

never smelt a DOA but ther is alot of ripe road kill on the road in the sticks.

I've worked in a few places were the tenant has died and not been discovered for a while (thankfully, the body was gone before I got there), and I've also reported possible deaths due to the smell coming from various flats and houses.

But the worst one was were the guy had died in the shower and a fair bit of him had got washed away, that place REALLY stunk

Really! many people are killed daily, and we don't get that worked up about it. Celebrities are not any more important than those people. It seems like the worse the celebrity the more the fan fare and big deal gets made of it.

I heard yesterday that the white suit that John wore on the
cover of Abbey Road is going to be auctioned in my town on
New Year's Day at a place called Braswell Galleries.

Here's a link:
http://braswellgalleries.com/wordpress/?page_id=199