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(Marion Chronicle Tribune)		James Dean died 50 years ago today, but he still lives on though his films and his breakfast sausage (chronicle-tribune.com)		143
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LittleSmitty		2005-09-30 08:58:48 AM

mmm sausage

TheSecretOwl		2005-09-30 08:59:00 AM

Har! Nice headline submitter.

Jolonco		2005-09-30 08:59:11 AM

Lil smokies....mmmmmm.

/needs a cigarette

Akito12345		2005-09-30 09:00:13 AM

Is it me or does Jimmy Dean look like a coprse in the commercials?

tommy_the_whiteranger		2005-09-30 09:00:44 AM

3 posts and only 1 person has clicked on the link. who wants to bet they didnt bother to post?

/mmm.. sausage...

jennifer_8		2005-09-30 09:01:18 AM

Yummy!

xarlos		2005-09-30 09:01:58 AM

It's fringe benefits, not french benefits.

/ Well, someone had to say it. Might as well get that out of the way.

Raider_dad		2005-09-30 09:01:59 AM

and when we got older we thought "Hey , Mr. Howell is James Dean's Dad"

bjorky		2005-09-30 09:02:40 AM

We don't get French benefits?

robhead		2005-09-30 09:02:56 AM

Heh, first laugh of the day.

a4dzac		2005-09-30 09:03:57 AM

I think I'll go test drive a Porsche to commemerate...

GungFu		2005-09-30 09:04:26 AM

James Dean watches from the wall
What a tragic end to it all..'

Adman12		2005-09-30 09:04:49 AM

I hear Dean's sausage was very popular among older, sugar-daddy types in Hollywood back in the day.

IMlifelike		2005-09-30 09:05:05 AM

I used to play in a band 20 years ago and Jimmy Dean (who lived nearby) used to get up and sing his song "Big Bad John".

/he already looked dead then

moltov		2005-09-30 09:05:13 AM

It's 'through' not 'though'

wearetheworld		2005-09-30 09:05:52 AM

though his films and his breakfast sausage what?

are tasty? bland? spicy?

21-7-b		2005-09-30 09:06:22 AM

he was awesome in casablanca

Eufah Kennidiets		2005-09-30 09:07:27 AM

Three movies, and two of them weren't even that good.

This is what makes a legend??

/definition of 'overrated'

PeopleFirst		2005-09-30 09:09:03 AM

Great headline!

rackrent		2005-09-30 09:09:40 AM

Eufah Kennidiets: This is what makes a legend??

Baby boomers made him a legend.

ffoozle		2005-09-30 09:10:12 AM

Burt Saxby? Tell him he's fired!

/Too obscure?

control		2005-09-30 09:11:59 AM

"Jimmy Dean to the rescue.
Jimmy Dean to the rescue.
James Dean."

Interesting tidbit: Steely Dan wrote that song one morning as he cooked his sausage.

ale4ever		2005-09-30 09:12:54 AM

Kudos to the submitter.

I think he is way over-rated and probably would have ended up dead soon from some other cause or eventually bloated (and a farce) like Brando.

BillDarryl		2005-09-30 09:14:21 AM

That car of his was EVIL! Clicky here for the story...

Feldspar Q. Walrustitty		2005-09-30 09:15:34 AM

ffoozle

BAJA! I don't have anything in Baja!

/no.

J-McFly		2005-09-30 09:15:34 AM

I haven't laughed so much at a headline in a while.

The_Doctor		2005-09-30 09:15:35 AM

He never should have broken up with Jerry Lewis.

whorehopper		2005-09-30 09:15:58 AM

Though his films and his sausage do what?

21-7-b		2005-09-30 09:16:09 AM

"Of all the gin joints in all the world..."

the man is immortal

ms. bigglesworth		2005-09-30 09:17:04 AM

though what? I don't get it - still lives on though his films. doesn't make sense submitter, call me when you get it right.

/dean was hot *swoon*

alexanderplatz		2005-09-30 09:17:37 AM

Interesting tidbit: Steely Dan wrote that song one morning as he cooked his sausage.

Huh?

Steely Dan = a band consisting of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker; band name was inspired by the name of a vibrator in the novel "Naked Lunch" by William Burroughs.

klatubaradanikto		2005-09-30 09:18:07 AM

I see you met Bambi and Thumper!

/Stupid Feldspar Q. Walrustitty Beat me to the Baja reference.

IMlifelike		2005-09-30 09:18:35 AM

alexanderplatz: Huh?

You need more coffee.

dittybopper		2005-09-30 09:19:19 AM

When the Jimmy Dean is dead, Magua will eat his patties. Before he dies, Magua will put his links in the frying pan, so the Jimmy Dean will know his sausage is wiped out forever.

Feldspar Q. Walrustitty		2005-09-30 09:21:10 AM

klatubaradanikto

"What's happened to me?"

/nyaah, nyaah.

ElMuerte		2005-09-30 09:22:22 AM

the man is immortal

No he's not he farking splattered himself all over the road.

/Ok that one made me laugh dittybopper

Mattytee		2005-09-30 09:23:14 AM

Who gives a crap? Seriously...

/has no idea why he was so popular.

clownpenis.fart		2005-09-30 09:23:23 AM

Willard Whyte approves.

/brain hurts

GungFu		2005-09-30 09:25:29 AM

BillDarryl: That car of his was EVIL! Clicky here for the story...

Strange that you should mention that.

Just listened to the BBC Radio doc on Dean, and both Eartha Kitt and Alec Guinness thought bad things would happen to him if he ever drove it.

Kitt said that he who die in the new car as Dean drove her around in it when she came to LA.

She had no idea why she said that as Dean was not driving in any way that would cause her to think it.

And Guinness was shown the car and told Dean not to get in it - Dean had just bought it and hadn't driven it yet - as he felt if he did, he'd be dead in a week.

Dean was dead within a week.

/BBC Radio 2 online - Johnny Depp narrates. It's still available.

tulsapro		2005-09-30 09:26:08 AM

Jimmy Dean IS NOT James Dean!

James Dean never made sausage. I met Jimmy Dean back in 1970's when he was looking for an advertising company for his sausage firm. My Dad, who owned an agency, had him over to our house for dinner (no sausage).

"He became best known for his 1961 song "Big Bad John" that went to No.1 on the Billboard charts. The song won Dean the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. He had several more Top 40 songs including a Top 10 in 1962 with "PT 109", a song in honor of PT-109 and John F. Kennedy. In the early 1960s he also hosted the Tonight Show on occasion and one night introduced Roy Clark, with whom he'd remained friendly, to a wider audience, something that helped Clark enhance his career."

wikipedia.org

The Spook		2005-09-30 09:27:23 AM

Jimmy Dean's are good, but a little greasy. I like Klements the best (midwestern thing??), but anything's better than Johnsonville.

Klements has the best brats too, by a long shot.

If you live in the upper midwest, Abbyland/Packerland brats aren't too shabby either.

IMlifelike		2005-09-30 09:27:37 AM

tulsapro: Jimmy Dean IS NOT James Dean!

I am not your father, Luke.

Detective Sandy V.		2005-09-30 09:28:45 AM

James Dean is Keanu Reeves, if he had had the common courtesy to die after the first Matrix movie.

Dennis_Moore		2005-09-30 09:30:11 AM

"GIANT" is the best movie ever. All I have to do is put my copy in the VCR, and the wife leaves the house for 4 hours...

/"Money's not everything, Jett..."
"Not when you got it..."

UDel_Kitty		2005-09-30 09:32:10 AM

tulsapro: Jimmy Dean IS NOT James Dean!

thanks cap'n obvious :P

/James Dean was teh hotness
//Jimmy Dean's corpse like body was not

bdub77		2005-09-30 09:35:58 AM

I loved him in North by Northwest.

GungFu		2005-09-30 09:36:47 AM

May I be the first to say:

This thread is unFarkworthy without pic of 'James Dean' nekkid up a tree with his 'jimmy dean' sausage exposed.

/just saying

Wolfanoz		2005-09-30 09:37:10 AM

Wanted for questioning

bass555		2005-09-30 09:39:30 AM

this thread feeds my inner Magua...

Lady J		2005-09-30 09:44:30 AM

you're all mental, or maybe older than me

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