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Old 08-09-2007, 20:26   #15
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Re: pavarotti died

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob View Post
It's actually "Nessun Dorma" (trans. None shall sleep.). Pedantic of me, I know, I am chastising myself as I type.

I was watching the report of his funeral on the news this evening; can anyone enlighten me as to why Italians feel the need to applaud at funerals? They did this at the funeral of the late Pope, too.
It's a good job it wasn't a cremation.

They would have kept opening and closing the drapes, as he took his last curtain call.

Diana, Princess of Wales, was the first funeral I remember people applauding at. People were doing it in Hyde Park, even before her brother's eulogy.
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