Pope John/John Lennon

Naw...John Lennon is sort of like the Pope of music to a lot of people.

I was thinking more along the lines of him being a global proponent of peace and love.

or that...

The Beatles > the papacy

The comment:



suggests to me that the Grim Reaper has switched from a scythe to scissors.

Or perhaps you are suggesting that there will be some terrorist activity?

Are you correcting my spelling? Do I need to stay after school?

Ha ha, you lost some recess time.

don't tell but it was me who farted during assembly

I was congratulating you on enriching the symbolism of the occasion.

My mistake m'aam...how embarrasking...

Embarassing? Only for a practical man with a weak ego. Poets have nerve, verve and a certain amount of linguistic freedom.

a practical man with a weak ego eliminates me completely.

Was it John who notoriously said that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus? They caught some flak for that, if memory serves...

Yes he said that and was misunderstood. He was speaking of the vapidity of the average citizen and their propensity for hero worship. The vapidity of the average citizen and the below average citizen (read: fundamentalist right wing nuts, yes they've been around a long time) misinterpreted his remark.

Agreed, blue. That episode amused me, if memory serves.

I don't know about you, but I'm a bit disgusted by the spectacle in Rome today. A man who has served as the head of a recognized and largely respected religious body should, at least, be accorded some dignity in the manner of his interment. I am not a Roman Catholic, but I wonder how the Catholics can tolerate making a gala feste out of a somber occasion which deserves some solemnity, not the kind of mass hysteria that I saw displayed on TV. It was more like the funeral of Rudolph Valentino, lacking only some female trying to throw herself onto the bier.

I thought along similar lines, MA, but y'know, I figured out some time ago that funerals are for the survivors, not the dearly departed. And this pageant is what people wanted, I suppose...

Should a funeral be somber? THey believe hes passed on to paradise. Isnt that cause for celebration?

Did anyone else read Nicholas Kristof's editorial?

Wonderful stuff: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/opinion/06kristof.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fNicholas%20D%20Kristof