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Ex Lurker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:35 PM
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presumably the kid in shorts and flip flops was a family member
who wears something like that to a funeral, and what kind of adult would let them? Put on a pair of pants for once in your life.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:36 PM
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1. You're kidding, right?
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:37 PM
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2. I hope you go back to lurking n/t
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:41 PM
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4. WTF are you talking about?
Pics and some sort of link would be appropriate so that you do not look like an ass who is here merely to shit on a day of mourning.
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cwydro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:43 PM
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5. What are you talking about?
Got a link?
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Ex Lurker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:46 PM
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7. some kid way to the front of the line
with the family, right behind the wife, etc. Shorts, flip flops and a sport coat. Not sure who he was and I am really puzzled that everyone else was in a suit or at least pants and a jacket and this kid was in shorts and flip flops and a jacket. Maybe there are pictures somewhere. I saw it on the CNN feed.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:52 PM
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10. Although some may not approve, remember this
the Kennedy clan is and was always CASUAL... a young child who wanted to wear that, was probably allowed to, because he's a kid..and maybe that's the way he always dressed with Uncle Teddy..

would a suit & tie be "better"? maybe.. but no one's paying all that much attention to what the kids wear...well maybe a few are, but the day is not about the kid..
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 04:05 PM
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20. That wasn't the funeral genius.
Read. Observe. Notice the date.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25992665-954,00.html
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:46 PM
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6. Your grammar is really bad...
:rofl:
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Mystayya Donating Member (324 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:47 PM
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8. What a thing to say.
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Ex Lurker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:49 PM
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9. do you think it's appropriate attire for the occasion?
Edited on Sat Aug-29-09 03:50 PM by Ex Lurker
obviously this has touched a nerve in some people, but I thought it was just curious.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 04:07 PM
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22. It ain't my occasion.
Edited on Sat Aug-29-09 04:09 PM by Iggo
And evidently the family thought it was appropriate.

EDIT: Okay. That last part was mean. Sorry about that.
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 04:11 PM
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23. If the occasion were a funeral, yes.
But what you have pictured here is not the funeral.
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Mystayya Donating Member (324 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 08:24 AM
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27. Yes it was absolutely appropriate and I would bet ANYTHING that Teddy would have approved too
You don't have any clue how people are here so back the heck off the kids.
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:54 PM
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11. Might be refering to this pic
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25992665-954,00.html
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Ex Lurker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:56 PM
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13. that's it
although I was wrong about the flip flops. Still looks too casual for the occasion, but I guess they were okay with it.
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:59 PM
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15. It's up to the family regarding appropriate attire
I'd probably be the dark sheep of the family really fast if I showed up at a funeral wearing shorts but that my kins standards.
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 04:03 PM
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17. You should probably feel like an idiot now since that ISN'T THE FUNERAL.
It was the gathering of people bidding him farewell from the family compound - yesterday.



From correspondents in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts

August 28, 2009 06:18am


CROWDS have bid a silent, fond farewell to Edward Kennedy as his funeral procession slipped down the narrow roads of this seaside resort at the start of his final journey.

Dressed in holiday shorts and sandals or even just barefoot, hundreds today lined the leafy, winding roads of Hyannis Port in balmy summer weather to pay their last respects to the Democratic giant.
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:54 PM
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12. You know who would show up in church dressed like that?
Jesus !

Now get lost !!!!!
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lamp_shade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:57 PM
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14. I summered in Cape Cod every summer as a kid. That's what we wore to Church.
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JohnnyLib2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 03:59 PM
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16. I was touched, somehow.
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countingbluecars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 04:04 PM
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18. That was NOT at the funeral.
I believe the picture you are referring to is when the casket was being moved on Friday.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 04:05 PM
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19. This kid's wearing shorts too ...


and it's late November in Washington, DC.
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MagickMuffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 04:07 PM
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21. The pic upthread is from the Memorial NOT the funeral
Most people at the Memorial was dressed causally.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 04:16 PM
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24. You mean this guy?
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 04:19 PM
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25. Curse you! My eyes are burning now!
:rofl:
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southernyankeebelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 04:23 PM
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26. That child was Teddy Kennedy the 3rd. You have to remember that these people are also on
Edited on Sat Aug-29-09 04:24 PM by southernyankeebelle
vacation. If you are going to get upset about that than what about the men that weren't wearing ties? Lighten up. He showed up.
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