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Old 01-03-2009, 09:27 AM
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BIG BOPPER CASKET FOR SALE

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WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD BUY THIS!?!?!?!?!
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Old 01-03-2009, 09:36 AM
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Creepy.......

My prediction: It winds up being the buffet at one of the Hard Rock clubs.....
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That would be just perfect for my guest bedroom when my girlfriend's mom wants to stay here overnight.
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That would be just perfect for my guest bedroom when my girlfriend's mom wants to stay here overnight.
is your girlfriend's mom one of the undead?
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Old 01-03-2009, 10:48 AM
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I hope they air it out first.
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Old 01-03-2009, 10:49 AM
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is your girlfriend's mom one of the undead?
In a sense, yes.

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In what can only be described as interesting coincidence, a good friend of mine used to hang out with the Big Bopper's son frequently the summer after we graduated. Drew was/is weird and so is Richardson, so it all worked out, I guess. I was invited to richardson's house numerous times, but Drew's oddity was enough and some of the stories he would relay were just...off. The end.

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Old 01-03-2009, 12:29 PM
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In what can only be described as interesting coincidence, a good friend of mine used to hang out with the Big Bopper's son frequently the summer after we graduated. Drew was/is weird and so is Richardson, so it all worked out, I guess. I was invited to richardson's house numerous times, but Drew's oddity was enough and some of the stories he would relay were just...off. The end.

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man, i would have gone. i love the big bopper. just to meet his son.....
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Honestly, how many days did the music die?
Music isn't a cat, people.
Think of how close rock and roll came to being "dead."

Elvis was in the Army, the black artists were... black, and there was not a lot of rock and roll in the music scene. Look at the Billboard charts, and until the early/mid 60s, everything is "bubblegum." It was all safe and homogenized.
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man, i would have gone. i love the big bopper. just to meet his son.....
Looking back, maybe I should have. At 18, I had zero interest in "older" music or anything that had to do with it. The big issue for me at the time was the fact that this dude was hanging out with people literally half his age.

His father's estate had him set as I understood it. I figured with that kinda money (I don't know how much he had, but he didn't work and we were making minimum wage, so he seemed wealthy) and lineage, you can pick and choose your friends....yet he chose to hang out with a 17 year old kid. It just kinda weirded me out.

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Old 01-03-2009, 03:26 PM
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This is just too friggin' bizarre. Both from the family/seller's point of view AND for any potential buyer. It just doesn't seem right.
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Old 01-03-2009, 05:32 PM
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It's good to see his son Jay got to see his Dad for the first time at his exhumation.


Does anyone see this as strange?
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about the only person or group i could see buying this would be the hard rock and i dont even think they would do it. i really dont know what to think about this story. it's so sick and twisted it defies all logic
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Hmm, I could use an unusual toolbox for mah pickm-up truck...
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