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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST,Mrr Date: 19 May 00 - 12:46 PM Who was it who wanted "I'd rather be here than in Philadelphia!"? And did he get it? I like touristing in graveyards, there is a really pretty one near Gordonsville, Virginia, which has a very fancy stone saying MOUNTAIN MAN - Born on the Blue Ridge (and a year), died (still blank the last time I looked). I like that one, but the idea of reserving it and having it carved, and placed, years before you die is a little strange to me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Mbo Date: 19 May 00 - 12:51 PM Mrrz, it was W.C. Fields. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST,Mrr Date: 19 May 00 - 01:37 PM Mbo, thanks - I figured you'd know, somehow! And is that what his tombstone says, or just one of his bons mots from while still alive? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: poet Date: 19 May 00 - 02:28 PM Warning:- Thread Creep. If Guest JulieF was a famous American Folk singer who played the Guernsey Folk club about 10yrs ago to a packed house. then I must say that through a comedy of unfunny errors I owe you a deep and grovelling apology. I hope it is you I've been carrying this around for a long time. Graham (Guernsey) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST,Pete Peterson (at work) Date: 19 May 00 - 02:46 PM |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST,Pete Peterson (at work) Date: 19 May 00 - 02:49 PM whoops (or maybe a blank tombstone would not be such a bad idea) anyway-- Fields' tombstone has name and dates only. Some literary (?) magazine wrote a number of celebrities in about 1930 asking what they wanted. . . you know Fields' response, the other memorable one was Dorothy Parker who wanted "excuse my dust". As for myself, for some years now I have said it would read "Missed Final Jeopardy" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST,Mrr Date: 19 May 00 - 02:59 PM I just LOVE Dorothy Parker, thanks! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST,Ickle Dorritt Date: 19 May 00 - 03:52 PM 'Don't think this is going to stop me!' |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Grandma Marshall Date: 19 May 00 - 04:00 PM I told you I was sick and tired! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: BlueJay Date: 19 May 00 - 04:07 PM I can't decide: it's either being laid down in "Forest Lawn", or letting my ashes be blown over the left field wall at Wrigley field, to come to my final resting place, "on Waitland avenue". Really, I think I prefer my headstone to read: "I always wanted to go to sea", tie it to my feet, and throw me in the Atlantic. BlueJay |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST,Chris Banshee Date: 19 May 00 - 04:56 PM By the time I'm dead and buried,(I hope) there will probably be digital headstones where one pushes a button on the stone and a prerecorded message of you saying "hey" with your favorite music, maybe a favorite quotation and a montage of pictures of your life will be displayed. And maybe your own personal motto: Music: Maid of Culmore or If I were a Blackbird or Queen of Argyle Personal motto for headstone: "I took the path less traveled by." I'll be cremated like my parents and I'd like a portion of my remains scattered at the high water mark at Gettysburg, Pa just like I did with a portion of my father's remains. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: MMario Date: 19 May 00 - 05:06 PM you can already buy them if you want to pay enough....been around for years. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST,Bill D Date: 19 May 00 - 05:13 PM WC Fields said.."I'd RATHER be in Philadelphia"... one of my favotite headstones..
"Owen Moore has gone away |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Pinetop Slim Date: 19 May 00 - 05:17 PM My sister's ashes were scattered where Narragansett Bay meets Block Island Sound, but a granite bench in her memory has been placed in the family cemetery. It's a pretty place. Children play there sometimes. At one family reunion, a bunch of cousins ended up serenading the departed with a jam session there. I'd like my name on a bird bath next to that bench. Should the birds poop all over my grave, it would feel as if I were still alive, but I'll take that risk. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Peter T. Date: 19 May 00 - 05:30 PM I think I would like a little story, or some extensive print about the person on every headstone. I spend a lot of time in cemeteries -- they are often the only places in towns where original tree species still thrive, and there is almost nothing to read on these headstones. Sometimes that is interesting -- you get to conjecture about people by comparing dates, and generations, but I would like some more extensive information about almost everyone. It would be nice: sit by the headstone, and read about the person and their lives, what they thought, whatever. I usually want less information: but in graveyards, I always want more. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: The Shambles Date: 19 May 00 - 09:05 PM Guest |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Petr Date: 19 May 00 - 09:07 PM Why Me? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Petr Date: 19 May 00 - 09:09 PM Seen on an old cowboys headstone. Be what you is, cuz if you be what you aint You aint what you is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: ceitagh Date: 19 May 00 - 10:13 PM I don't think I'll be sorry to say goodbye Unless the world is different when I die And when I go, on my face will be a smile Knowing I have walked the final mile And if I have seized the hours of each day, And if I know know that I have lived the way, Then No Regrets! for God will be with me and we will wait for you in Eternity. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Amergin Date: 19 May 00 - 10:52 PM Wasn't that a party? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Spider Tom Date: 20 May 00 - 12:51 AM You have given it some thought too Ceitagh. It's good to meet a thinking mind, so many others laugh nervous in the face of Death. Keep Well, Spider Tom |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: mactheturk Date: 20 May 00 - 09:28 AM "When you are dead,` seek for your resting place` not in the earth,` but in the hearts of men." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: thosp Date: 20 May 00 - 01:40 PM "It was NOT my idea to be here" peace (Y) thosp |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: mactheturk Date: 20 May 00 - 02:04 PM "Friends may come, and friends may go, and friends may peter out. But I was your friend, through thick and thin, peter in or peter out." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 20 May 00 - 05:13 PM My Beautiful Wife has instructions on what to put on mine (if I get there first): "A Gentleman and a Scholar......and a Lover. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie Date: 21 May 00 - 01:07 AM "The worms crawl out, the worms crawl in, And those that crawl in are slim & thin; And those that crawl out are fat & stout, Be merry my friends, be merry." Or to be less morbid: "When you gotta go, you gotta go" Eddie :o) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: zonahobo Date: 21 May 00 - 01:37 AM Ok I'll bite .. how about I KNOW SOMETHING YOU DON'T KNOW |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: kendall Date: 21 May 00 - 06:00 PM Thanks Kim C. My ears are empty without Gus |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST,Second Banana Date: 21 May 00 - 07:09 PM When days are few and I am due> To sleep no more to wake.> When games are done and I have won> I've one request to make.> A banal word is often heard> And cant I can't abide> Please do not say I've passed away> Just say that I have died..> |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: wysiwyg Date: 22 May 00 - 02:38 PM |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: kendall Date: 22 May 00 - 02:59 PM cat got your tongue? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: keltcgrasshoppper Date: 22 May 00 - 06:26 PM "I will go back now and build my little shanty by the sea" from my favorite poem.. by Edna StVincent Milay |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Max Date: 22 May 00 - 06:37 PM www.mudcat.org |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST,art Date: 22 May 00 - 06:43 PM owen moore has gone away owing more than he could pay owen moore'll back one day owing more |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Peter Kasin Date: 23 May 00 - 02:03 AM I was the world's most modest person. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Melani Date: 23 May 00 - 02:27 AM |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Escamillo Date: 23 May 00 - 06:05 AM "Please don't cut this tree at my side. I'm feeding it." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: katlaughing Date: 23 May 00 - 10:54 AM Written by my grandfather, Frank Hudson, an old cowboy-rancher in Colorado:
Death is the other end of being born And, he did © G. L. Hudson Family |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST Date: 23 May 00 - 12:24 PM Poet - I'm sorry I can't offer you absolution. I'm a decidedly not famous, Scottish lass ( well 36) living in Sheffield (UK). Sorry. Why do you think I'm someone else ? Julie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: poet Date: 23 May 00 - 04:35 PM Like I said i feel guilty about something and If I see the Sobriquet Julie F my concience adds the ELIX. Vso alas there is no atonement yet. Graham (Guernsey) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: JulieF Date: 23 May 00 - 04:39 PM What Can I say - if you're really bothered I'ld change the name I post under to make it easier for you. Julie Ps - I keep comming up as Guest at work anyway because I forget to label myself. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: wysiwyg Date: 23 May 00 - 04:40 PM kendall, I dunno, it's a blank to me. (I was just blitz-refreshing to sink yesterday's duplicate Willies. I can only handle so many of them at once, after all.) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: The Shambles Date: 24 May 00 - 05:16 AM THE END...............? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: katlaughing Date: 24 May 00 - 09:00 AM Not quite, Shambs. DId you all see that?! I missed it until checking this thread, today. FAST EDDIE posted!! My elusive friend wrote about the worms!!! C'mon, Eddie, jump in some more....now we know you're out there!**BG** Hope you're feeling okay! katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: poet Date: 24 May 00 - 08:47 PM Dont change the name Julie F. it suits your postings. Graham (Guernsey) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie Date: 25 May 00 - 02:07 AM Katlaughing, I think you've got me mixed up with someone else. I'm Crazy Eddie, not Fast Eddie...........I've never hustled pool, and I'm always s-l-o-w. But I hope your elusive buddy turns up. You can't have too many Eddies! :o) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST,Al T. Date: 25 May 00 - 08:18 AM Bartlett's credits the following as an epitaph written 1896 by Mark Twain for his daughter. I've seen it in Green-Wood in Brooklyn, and it may be older; but still beautiful: Warm summer sun, shine kindly here; Warm southern wind, blow softly here; Green sod above, lie light, lie light - Good-night, dear heart, good-night, good-night. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: katlaughing Date: 25 May 00 - 11:07 AM Crazy Eddie, well, ya still made me smile! Sorry about that...Fast Eddie or whatever we named him, has been off from work for a short spell and I just got so excited when I saw "Eddie", and, oh, hell, I didn't care if you were fast, slow, OR crazy...you were an Eddie and that's good enough for me! Thanks for showing me the error of my ways. **BG** katlaughngatherself |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: WyoWoman Date: 25 May 00 - 11:15 PM I favor:
"See, I TOLD you I was sick."
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"This terminal logged off..." (Why, when I finally find a few minutes to stop by Mudcat and see what's happening, do I end up posting to a thread about freakin' HEADSTONES????? But ... here I am. Briefly. Maybe that would be a good epitaph...) (Actually, I think I'll steal one from Monica Lewinski, Patron Saint of the Imprecise: "So, I'm, like, whatEVer ...." WyoWoman |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST,Slider Date: 26 May 00 - 04:33 AM Could be used for a headstone or a bumper sticker: "An acoustic guitar will get you through times of no electricity better than an electric guitar will get you through times of no air." I thought that one up during that fuzzy interface between dreaming and being awake. My wife thinks I'm daft. I seldom disagree with her. |