BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.

Subject: BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.
From: Joybell
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 05:57 PM

True-Love and I both decided to leave our mortal remains to Melbourne's medical school. Not that we don't want to keep them for a long time yet, but we thought, best we make it official. True-Love had thought he would rather like medical students to have a bit of fun at the same time. It's a hard life as a medical student and he thought a few practical jokes would be the go. A friend warned us that if we suggested anything like that they wouldn't take us. They'd think we weren't suitable clients or something.
Anyway True-Love put on his most reverent voice and called up the university.

They said,
"Thank you for your offer but we don't need any more donations of that kind until after the new year"

Dead weird or what? Joy

Subject: RE: BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 06:09 PM

THat is weird! I mean, how do they know?

Subject: RE: BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 06:19 PM

Do they want you to book in in advance?    Or do they plan to phone you up and say "We can take you now, but don't delay or you'll miss your chance."

Subject: RE: BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.
From: Peace
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 06:48 PM

Abra cadaver.

Subject: RE: BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.
From: Dead Horse
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 08:03 PM

Perhaps they "do it while you wait"?
It's always better to leave it til after the January Sales anyway.........

Subject: RE: BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 08:15 PM

Ungratefull bastardss.

Subject: RE: BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.
From: DougR
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 09:57 PM

Perhaps they are a bit short on ice!

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.
From: Dead Horse
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 11:48 PM

I always get "enbalmed" at Christmas, too.

Subject: RE: BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 11:56 PM

Maybe they already know what Santa is leaving under their tree?

Subject: RE: BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.
From: Joybell
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 12:46 AM

We thought so too, Sir jOhn.

I guess Santa has lots of ice to keep folks fresh. Perhaps we should ring him. If we're feeling poorly before the New Year that is. Joy

Subject: RE: BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 09:33 AM

I've sometimes felt that I was going to die on New Year's Day. Something to do with the night before, I think.

Subject: RE: BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 10:54 AM

"I Ain't Got No Body" - that's a Merle Haggard song isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 11:54 AM

I don't know how big the medical school is but they probably don't have dissections every month. Perhaps you may get a better response and have your bodies do more good for science by allowing a broader range of research to be done on them. Perhaps a study of the size and weight of folksingers' brains and tongues is being conducted somewhere.

Subject: RE: BS: No more bodies till next year Thank you.
From: Joybell
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 03:49 PM

OK. Well maybe ebay is the way to go. Or bodysnatchers.com or something like that. folkiebodyforfunandreasearch.com
It's Melbourne University. The only centre in Victoria set up for this kind of donation.
It's ok for you, Jack. Any old tarpaulin jacket, a bit of a song and into the briny-deep. Fish in deep waters to swim over your head. Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum.

Whenever we old folks get together we dream about folkie retirement/nursing homes perhaps we should go the one step further. Of course we haven't set up the first bit yet. Probably won't get around to it. Cheery-bye (still trying out a new sign-off) Joy