RIP Jimmy Dean

[MikesVikes]

The singer the sausage maker. Dead at 81.

 

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NOT a PETA member.

 

In the late '60s, Dean entered the hog business -- something he knew well. His family had butchered hogs, with the young Dean whacking them over the head with the blunt end of an ax. The Dean brothers -- Jimmy and Don -- ground the meat and their mother seasoned it.

[SEC=UGA]

Hmm, I wonder if the will grind him up with his secret recipe, stuff him in a natural casing and smoke him...

[MikesVikes]

Big John. Big Bad John!

 

The song tells the story of a mysterious and quiet miner who earned the nickname Big John because of his height, weight and muscular physique ("He stood six foot six and weighed two forty-five"). He supposedly came from New Orleans Milwaukee, where he killed a man over a Cajun Packer woman.

 

One day, a support timber cracked at the mine where John worked. The situation looked hopeless until John "grabbed a saggin' timber, gave out with a groan / and like a giant oak tree just stood there alone", then "gave a mighty shove", opening a passage and allowing the other miners to escape the mine. Although the miners were about to reenter the mine with the equipment necessary to save John, the mine fully collapsed and John died in the depths of the mine. The mine itself was never reopened, but a marble stand was placed in front of it, with the words "At the bottom of this mine lies one hell of a man - Big John" written on it.

Edited June 14, 2010 by MikesVikes

[Chargerz]

Hmm, I wonder if the will grind him up with his secret recipe, stuff him in a natural casing and smoke him...

You are BAD!