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12-08-2005, 12:17 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Time Flies.....John Lennon Shot 24 Years Ago Today!
Like it was yesterday I remember the night.....was watching Monday Night Football when the news broke in the middle of the telecast......John Lennon had been shot and killed outside of his apartment building, the Dakota......................what a shame and an absolute waste.  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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12-08-2005, 12:47 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
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I still have the newspapers from that. Very sad, all the guy ever wanted was for everyone to get along.
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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12-08-2005, 02:19 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
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I can remember exactly what I was doing I was 20 and I was in my room with my girlfriend, (wife now) and 2 friends with a huge pile of cocaine and a big bag of pot and it came on WBCN  very sad night He was born on the same day as me also. I am glad my kids are not like I was. |
Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey
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12-08-2005, 02:44 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
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Missed this 1st time around....it was actually 25 years ago
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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12-08-2005, 03:28 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
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I was 19 then
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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12-08-2005, 05:18 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Sorry TDF...they say the memory is the second thing to go!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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12-08-2005, 05:49 PM
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googan
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Googanville
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I remember the day I heard the news. I was 24 years old and fishing on the Northern Edge of George's Bank on F/V Luzitano.
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12-08-2005, 06:14 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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i'm still waiting
for someone to exterminate that raunchy little bug that shot him in the back.... thats when i will have a totally happy day... 
that little fleck of fecal matter shoulda been flushed by now... |
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12-08-2005, 06:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
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Twenty five years ago this week, Jen and I moved into this house, I was laid off, and that doofus killed John Lennon. Tough week.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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12-08-2005, 08:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
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LETS GO BRANDON
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12-09-2005, 12:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 833
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and he wants unsupervised release to visit his parents before they die . . . me thinks he's much safer behind bars.
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12-10-2005, 08:48 PM
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here fishy fishy
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: westport,ma.
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Originally Posted by BigFish
Like it was yesterday I remember the night.....was watching Monday Night Football when the news broke in the middle of the telecast......John Lennon had been shot and killed outside of his apartment building, the Dakota......................what a shame and an absolute waste. |
i was listening to BCN that night too. Remember the disk jockey saying what the %*@^!!.
SAD NIGHT |
redcrbbr
of all the things i've lost...i miss my mind the most!!
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