RIP Edward Kennedy

[jimmy olsen]

ITS SHORT FOR EDWARD YOU NIMROD

Ed is short for Edward

Ted is short for Theodore

[Eddie Teach]

ITS SHORT FOR EDWARD YOU NIMROD

Ed is short for Edward

Ted is short for Theodore

What about Ned?

[citizen k]

ITS SHORT FOR EDWARD YOU NIMROD

Ed is short for Edward

Ted is short for Theodore

What about Ned?

Ned (Non Educated Delinquent) is a term applied to certain people in Scotland, akin to the term chav in England. The stereotypical view of a ned is a white adolescent male (although this does not exclude females), of working class background, who wears fake brand names (particularly Burberry), tacky jewellery (females often wear their name in large gold lettering), and engages in hooliganism, petty criminality, loutish behaviour, fighting, underage drinking and smoking or general anti-social behaviour. They are often assumed to be unemployed.

[Caliga]

Chappaquiddick behavior 'inexcusable': Kennedy memoir
(AFP) – 49 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — US senator Edward Kennedy expressed regret over his "inexcusable" behavior in the 1969 car crash that killed a campaign worker in a memoir to be published posthumously, the New York Times reported Thursday.

The crash, in which Mary Jo Kopechne died when Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick island, Massachusetts, and the subsequent scandal, effectively destroyed Kennedy's presidential hopes. He lost the Democratic nomination to incumbent Jimmy Carter in 1980.

In "True Compass," a memoir that goes on sale on September 14, the last of the four Kennedy brothers admitted he "made terrible decisions" when he left the scene of the accident.

Kennedy, who did not report the accident to police until Kopechne's body was recovered the following day, said the events may have also shortened the life of his then-ailing father, Joseph Kennedy, according to the Times, which obtained a copy of the memoir published by Twelve.

The Times said the account by Kennedy, who died aged 77 on August 25 after a battle with brain cancer, did not provide new details on the accident but rather reflected on how it impacted him and his family.

The 532-page book also delved into the senator's drinking and philandering episodes, as well as his relationship with his family, including his decision to not run for the presidency in 1984 after hearing objections from his children.

Kennedy's children, the book says, feared for his life in the wake of the assassinations of his older brothers -- president John F. Kennedy and senator Robert (Bobby) Kennedy. The eldest brother -- pilot Joe Kennedy Junior -- died during a World War II bombing mission.

Kennedy, the youngest of the nine Kennedy children of whom only one sister, Jean, now survives, said he did not question the official findings of the Warren Commission on JFK's assassination that gunman Lee Harvey Oswald alone was responsible for the killing.

He also wrote about his "self-destructive drinking," especially after Bobby's death. The tragedy, he said, initially left him unable to return to the Senate, where he eventually served a 47-year tenure.

[KRonn]

Talk circulating this morning that someone is floating the idea of renaming Logan Airport to Kennedy Logan Airport.   

[Neil]

Those Kennedy boys really had brain troubles, didn't they?  Joseph got his vaporized, John and Robert got theirs scrambled by bullets, and Edward had the cancer.

[Caliga]

@ the Kennedy Logan airport idea

[KRonn]

@ the Kennedy Logan airport idea

Yeah, that's what I think too. And I even told my new cat, Teddy, how I felt about this naming stuff.   

[Eddie Teach]

Isn't there already a Kennedy Airport somewhere?

[Ed Anger]

Isn't there already a Kennedy Airport somewhere?

Bostonians need an airport named Kennedy where they can be their douchebag selves at too.

[Savonarola]

Isn't there already a Kennedy Airport somewhere?

Yes, it's in New York City.

[Caliga]

Bostonians need an airport named Kennedy where they can be their douchebag selves at too.

I think it's about time the rest of us kicked Massachusetts out of the United States. 

[Berkut]

Talk circulating this morning that someone is floating the idea of renaming Logan Airport to Kennedy Logan Airport.  

How about Kopechne Kennedy Logan Airport?

[Ed Anger]

Bostonians need an airport named Kennedy where they can be their douchebag selves at too.

I think it's about time the rest of us kicked Massachusetts out of the United States. 

Goddamn Massholes.

[Caliga]

Goddamn Massholes.

They can rename their newly-independent country 'Kennedyana' with the capital city of 'JFKburg', and currency called 'Tedwards'.