Jimmy Dean will not be down for breakfast

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Jimmy Dean will not be down for breakfast

Post by Saint March » Sun Jun 13, 2010 10:22 pm

No joke... the father of the breakfast sausage has passed on. Here's to ya cowboy.

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Re: Jimmy Dean will not be down for breakfast

Post by GRUMPY PIRATE » Sun Jun 13, 2010 11:56 pm

my parents used to watch and listen to him all the time, before he got into the sausage business.

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Re: Jimmy Dean will not be down for breakfast

Post by GaTechGal » Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:55 am

And don't forget - he was Willard Whyte in "Diamonds are Forever".



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Re: Jimmy Dean will not be down for breakfast

Post by hobie16 » Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:07 am

GaTechGal wrote:And don't forget - he was Willard Whyte in "Diamonds are Forever".
And he lived in one of the coolest houses ever.

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Re: Jimmy Dean will not be down for breakfast

Post by GaTechGal » Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:15 am

"I see you've met my friends Bambi and Thumper." (there's ALWAYS a Disney reference if you look hard enough)



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Re: Jimmy Dean will not be down for breakfast

Post by drcorey » Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:49 am

geez, I hope he didn't die from living off his sausages. :eek:
I think it's time to switch to panckaes for me.


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Re: Jimmy Dean will not be down for breakfast

Post by Goofyernmost » Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:13 pm

drcorey wrote:geez, I hope he didn't die from living off his sausages. :eek:
I think it's time to switch to panckaes for me.
Good God...even if he did...he was 81 years old. How long do you think life expectancy is? If he did eat his own products regularly that bodes pretty well for it. Couldn't have done him too much harm.


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Re: Jimmy Dean will not be down for breakfast

Post by BRWombat » Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:24 pm

As a "new guy" in my chorus (I've only been in the group for three years!), I just found out that Jimmy Dean had a history with the Vocal Majority. He and our director were friends, and Dean even MC'd a few shows for us.

And this story from a fellow VM'er:

[INDENT]My one Jimmy Dean story took place in the Virginians' (chorus) dressing room for one of our shows. I was kid (maybe 15 or 16 at the time) and I was attracted to Jimmy's belt buckle. It was very shiny and sparkly. He noticed that it had caught my eye and so he motioned me over and took the buckle off and handed it to me.

The buckle must have weighed several pounds and had 5 rows of diamonds going around in a circle pattern around the buckle and in the middle were larger diamonds that spelled out his initials "JD". He then announced to the entire dressing room that the only reason he was letting me examine his belt buckle was because he was certain that I would never have the opportunity to hold a $100,000 belt buckle in my lifetime.

An interesting man he was...[/INDENT]


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Re: Jimmy Dean will not be down for breakfast

Post by GaTechGal » Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:41 am

Goofyernmost wrote:Good God...even if he did...he was 81 years old. How long do you think life expectancy is?
My grandmother is 97. Her mother lived to 99.



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