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    #11
    I am not dead yet.
    Fame.
    The Final Cut

    My grandmother - died age 101 - had "I do like to be beside the seaside" as the last song at her funeral.
    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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      #12
      Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

      My grandmother - died age 101 - had "I do like to be beside the seaside" as the last song at her funeral.
      That made me

      "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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        #13
        Originally posted by d000hg View Post
        I'll be too busy dancing with my "sky friends", but generally our funerals are quite joyful affairs. Cue jokes about everyone being joyful I'm dead, etc

        "My Way" is a bit of a poor choice in my view. The narcissist anthem.
        Hey if that makes you comfortable go for it.

        Odd "My Way" always came across to me as a man trying to justify his choices in a difficult life. Sinatra knew he had been a naughty boy.

        Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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          #14
          My FIL teased the MIL that he wanted Chesney Hawkes "I am the one and only"

          Despite my beliefs I would probably have a few hymns as they remind me of my childhood. Probably "we plow the fields and scatter".
          Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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            #15
            Originally posted by vetran View Post

            Odd "My Way" always came across to me as a man trying to justify his choices in a difficult life. Sinatra knew he had been a naughty boy.
            Yes but no acknowledgment of the hurt he had caused. It has none of the class associated with the sublime Edith Piaf's song on the same theme.

            Non, rien de rien
            Non, je ne regrette rien
            Ni le bien qu’on m’a fait
            Ni le mal; tout ça m’est bien égal!

            No, nothing of nothing
            No, I don’t regret anything
            Neither the good things people have done to me
            Nor the bad things, it’s all the same to me.

            Non, rien de rien
            Non, je ne regrette rien
            C’est payé, balayé, oublié
            Je me fous du passé!

            No, nothing of nothing
            No! I don’t regret anything
            It’s paid for, swept away, forgotten,
            I don’t care about the past!

            Avec mes souvenirs
            J’ai allumé le feu
            Mes chagrins, mes plaisirs
            Je n’ai plus besoin d’eux!

            With my memories
            I lit up the fire
            My troubles, my pleasures
            I don’t need them anymore!

            Balayés les amours
            Et tous leurs trémolos
            Balayés pour toujours
            Je repars à zéro

            The lovers are all swept away
            And all of their drama
            Swept away forever
            I start again from zero

            Non, rien de rien
            Non, je ne regrette rien
            Ni le bien qu’on m’a fait
            Ni le mal; tout ça m’est bien égal!

            No, nothing of nothing
            No, I don’t regret anything
            Neither the good things people have done to me
            Nor the bad things, it’s all the same to me.

            Non, rien de rien
            Non, je ne regrette rien
            Car ma vie, car mes joies
            Aujourd’hui, ça commence avec toi!

            No, nothing of nothing
            No, I don’t regret anything
            Because my life, because my joys
            Today that starts with you!
            But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

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              #16
              Originally posted by Gibbon View Post

              Yes but no acknowledgment of the hurt he had caused. It has none of the class associated with the sublime Edith Piaf's song on the same theme.

              Non, rien de rien
              Non, je ne regrette rien
              Ni le bien qu’on m’a fait
              Ni le mal; tout ça m’est bien égal!

              No, nothing of nothing
              No, I don’t regret anything
              Neither the good things people have done to me
              Nor the bad things, it’s all the same to me.

              Non, rien de rien
              Non, je ne regrette rien
              C’est payé, balayé, oublié
              Je me fous du passé!

              No, nothing of nothing
              No! I don’t regret anything
              It’s paid for, swept away, forgotten,
              I don’t care about the past!

              Avec mes souvenirs
              J’ai allumé le feu
              Mes chagrins, mes plaisirs
              Je n’ai plus besoin d’eux!

              With my memories
              I lit up the fire
              My troubles, my pleasures
              I don’t need them anymore!

              Balayés les amours
              Et tous leurs trémolos
              Balayés pour toujours
              Je repars à zéro

              The lovers are all swept away
              And all of their drama
              Swept away forever
              I start again from zero

              Non, rien de rien
              Non, je ne regrette rien
              Ni le bien qu’on m’a fait
              Ni le mal; tout ça m’est bien égal!

              No, nothing of nothing
              No, I don’t regret anything
              Neither the good things people have done to me
              Nor the bad things, it’s all the same to me.

              Non, rien de rien
              Non, je ne regrette rien
              Car ma vie, car mes joies
              Aujourd’hui, ça commence avec toi!

              No, nothing of nothing
              No, I don’t regret anything
              Because my life, because my joys
              Today that starts with you!
              To be fair that is another favourite of mine.

              Sinatra had a life with a bottle, gambling, the mob and a wandering eye. Apologies weren't really his thing.

              Piaf had a life most would consider tragic.

              Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                #17
                Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

                That made me
                Did us too!
                Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by vetran View Post
                  Sinatra had a life with a bottle, gambling, the mob and a wandering eye. Apologies weren't really his thing.
                  Like I said, having it at your funeral is basically "I did what I wanted, screw you".
                  Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                  I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                  Originally posted by vetran
                  Urine is quite nourishing

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
                    Like I said, having it at your funeral is basically "I did what I wanted, screw you".
                    I can see how you get to that opinion.
                    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by vetran View Post

                      I can see how you get to that opinion.
                      I can't take credit for it, someone else expressed it much better and it always stuck with me.
                      Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                      I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                      Originally posted by vetran
                      Urine is quite nourishing

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