BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)

Subject: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 May 02 - 08:20 PM

The thread "BS: What would you want on your headstone?" was getting a bit long, and it looks like it's still got some life in it.

And here's a non-joke one one to be going on with:

"The flowers of heaven and earth are the same flowers." (Joseph Mary Plunkett 1887-1916.)

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 May 02 - 08:22 PM

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: Amergin
Date: 11 May 02 - 10:49 PM

next stop, your place!

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 May 02 - 10:57 PM

I just curious to know if Morticia ever had David's stone finished and what was put on it.......

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: Hilary
Date: 12 May 02 - 02:44 PM

One thing I WOULDN'T like :

Swans sing before they die, Twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

S.T.Coleridge I think.

hilary

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: DonMeixner
Date: 12 May 02 - 03:25 PM

If I don't get to pick something better I would like.

" My Life Flows On In Endless Song."

Don

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: Greycap
Date: 12 May 02 - 07:34 PM

'Friend of the Devil'on a black marble slab will do. Should stop the little buggers in our local grave yard drinking Carlie Specials and pissing on my bit of the area.

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: Dead Horse
Date: 13 May 02 - 02:38 AM

No good you looking down on me, because I am looking down on YOU! (I hope)

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: DMcG
Date: 13 May 02 - 04:44 AM

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From: DMcG
Date: 13 May 02 - 04:44 AM

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Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: gnu
Date: 13 May 02 - 05:20 AM

You're only six feet away.

I'd rather you take me fishing.

Nothing better to do ?

Seriously ?.... I have the lived the lives of many men, And shared each of these with my true friends. Thanks for visiting and when you go, Drink lots of cold water and walk slow.

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 May 02 - 05:31 AM

"Beneath this ad John Brown is stowed. He watched the ad and not the road"
written by Ogden Nash for a road safety ad.

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: Morticia
Date: 13 May 02 - 07:15 AM

No,we haven't made a decision yet and to be honest we are still finding it a bit difficult to talk about. I guess he isn't going anywhere.

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 13 May 02 - 09:41 AM

Two epitaphs that I like. The first is sheer hearsay, I have no proof that it is correct butI was told that Perchy French when challenged to provide his own epitaph came up with, 'Remember me is all I ask, but yet If memory becomes a task, Forget.

The other is from a favourite book, Steinbeck's 'Travels With Charley In Search of America'. It is the epitaph of Robert John Creswell, died 1845 aged twenty six. "Alas that one whose darnthly joy had often to trust in heaven should canty thus sudden to from all it's hopes benivens and though thy love for off remore that dealt the dog pest thou left to prove thy sufferings while below". Steinbeck's response to the man who recited it for him was "It's wonderful....Lewis Carroll could have written it. I almost know what it means".

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: DMcG
Date: 13 May 02 - 09:52 AM

I've only heard this from one group and that was some 30 years ago. Other people may know more about it

Under this stone
Lies Gabriel John
Till the Year of Our Lord
Ten Thousand and one
Cover his head with turf or stone
'Tis all one, 'Tis all one

Pray for the soul
Of sweet gentle John
If you will, you may
Our let it alone
'Tis all one, 'Tis all one

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 15 May 02 - 08:25 PM

In one of the Long Island cemeteries lies an elderly man and his wife (no names). His says something like, "Loving husband and father, rest in peace." The wife died a few years later. On her stone are these words: "Strove, struggled- for what?"

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 16 May 02 - 07:16 AM

See I told you I was ill

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: Ralphie
Date: 16 May 02 - 07:24 AM

If this is in Part 1 Apologies!

Here lies the body of Lester Moore
Shot in the back, by a Colt 44
No Les
No More

Probably apocryphal, but, I'd love to think it true!
Regards Ralphie

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: kendall
Date: 16 May 02 - 07:36 AM

A middle age couple each wrote a secret epitaph, sealed them, and gave them to the executor of their estate. She died first, and her stone said, COLD, AS USUAL. Some time later on, he died, and his said STIFF AT LAST.

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: Crane Driver
Date: 16 May 02 - 04:23 PM

I'd rather like to be able to take lunch on mine .....

Subject: RE: BS: On your headstone ? (Part 2)
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 16 May 02 - 04:42 PM

quite disrespectful, but in a punning mood, how about

WHORES! (men pass by)