On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:32:18 -0400, "The UnInmate"
> wrote:

>
>"blake murphy" > wrote in message
.. .
>> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:05:27 -0700, Mark Thorson >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Julia Altshuler wrote:
>>>>
>>>> hahabogus wrote:
>>>> > So like the song says Don't
>>>> > worry...be happy (BTW the composer killed himself). A fixed bedtime
>>>> > routine works wonders, works kinda like self hypnosis.
>>>>
>>>> I googled on "Don't worry be happy" and learned from Wikipedia that the
>>>> song is by musician Bobby McFerrin. McFerrin is still living. The
>>>> phrase is an expression often used by Meher Baba. He was injured in a
>>>> car wreck which caused him considerable pain. He died in 1968. While
>>>> he did engage in seclusion, meditation, and fasting, and while these may
>>>> have contributed to his death in some way, no mention was made of
>>>> suicide.
>>>
>>>Snopes has a full debunking of this urban legend:
>>>
>>>http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/mcferrin.asp
>>>
>>>Although McFerrin didn't commit suicide, the guy who
>>>wrote "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and
>>>Smile, Smile, Smile" did in fact commit suicide.
>>
>> a case of justifiable suicide.
>
>Not if you're one of his loved ones and spend the rest of your life
>wondering what you could have done to prevent it. Of course the "you" here
>is rhetorical because accusing you, b.m., of having normal human feelings
>would be silly.
>

that's me all over. inhuman beast, more animal than man. it's a
wonder all the wimmen can keep me downtrodden.

blake
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