BS: Your headstone

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Miken
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 01:03 AM

Apologies to Flann O'Brian

"I dedicate these years
to my Guardian Angel,
impressing upon him
that I'm only fooling
and warning him
to see to it that
there is no misunderstanding
when I go home"

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 12:59 AM

water you lookin at?

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Deckman
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 10:37 PM

For the last 15 years, my daughter Ingrid has declared that this is what she will put on my tombstone: "Dad went through life an hour early!" (what can I say! CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Art Thieme
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 09:57 PM

Got the idea from the fact that we had to bury my old uncle with his head stickin' out of the ground because the hammer broke before we got him all the way in.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Art Thieme
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 08:57 PM

I think Yorick in Hamlet had the right idea. I want my headstone to be just that, my own head !!! Nothing more and nothing less. And you all can come by and say, "Yes, I knew him well, Katlaughing. A man of infinite jest."

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Gareth
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 08:56 PM

Seaweed and Coral !

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Jeep man
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 07:51 PM

I still like the old chestnut,"He done his damndest". Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 07:43 PM

In a cemetery here on LI where my husbands parents are buried, there are two graves- the husband's says, "Devoted father...etc." The wife's says, "Strove. Struggled. For what?"

Katlaughing, I loved your grandpa Frank Hudson's lines. Here are mine, possibly already in another thread:

Harp on the willow tree, now it is hung.
One man, one faith, one God, to them I clung.
Sweet were the songs of life, now they are sung.
Harp on the willow tree, now it is hung.

Dear little son of mine, child on your knee-
Sing him your songs of life, let him fly free!
Dear little son of mine, child on your knee-
Sing them for you, for him, sing them for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: thehiker
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 07:13 PM

Here Lie The Remains Of John P Murphy
Died In Bed Aged 92
Shot By A Jealous Husband.
Sadly Missed By Both His Widows.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Amos
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 10:26 AM

"He Never Got Around to Ordering the Mudcat CDs..."

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: mack/misophist
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 08:52 PM

Even a relatively new graveyard can be a great place for a pick-nick or a stroll (Think of it as a park. Because it is.) But there are just too damn many of us to go on doing this. I'm going to have them recycle what they can , then let the med students use the left-overs to make bad jokes.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 08:39 PM

One more time:

'I'll Be Back Before You Know It'

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Bill
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 07:07 PM

All I want is- DIED AGED 100 CUT DOWN IN HIS PRIME

Bill (the sound)

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Taunus
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 06:51 PM

"Sequel's coming"

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 05:45 PM

"Check New Babies- One of them will be me.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: stevetheORC
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 10:57 AM

'OUT TO TEA'
Please call Later



ORC

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Cluin
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 10:47 AM

A couple from English headstones:

Beneath this stone, a lump of clay,
Lies Arabella Young,
Who on the twenty-fourth of May,
Began to hold her tongue.

Here lies the body of Martha Elias
Always uneasy and not over pious
She lived to the age of three score and ten
And gave to the worms what she refused to the men.

And a couple from the States:

Under the sod and under the trees
Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod:
Pease shelled out and went to God.

Here lies an Atheist:
All dressed up and no place to go.

A few more here.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: jimlad
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 10:33 AM

Seen on a grave dating from 1663 in Cheshire...

Stop vain youth as you pass by
As you are now so once was I.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Cluin
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:51 AM

"I haven't forgotten. I'll get to it..."

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: JennyO
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:37 AM

On my grandfather's headstone was:

"To thine own self be true"

I haven't decided what I'd like, but I reckon that one would be hard to beat.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:35 AM

Still thirsty.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Snuffy
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:30 AM

Allegedly a true one:

Here lies [name supplied]
Spinster of this parish
and for 47 years postmistress

Returned unopened

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: JennyO
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 08:36 AM

Mark Clark - nearly missed scrolling down!

Just when I was thinking "that's rather nice".

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Mark Clark
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 01:22 AM

I think my favorite headstone is that of John Laird McCaffery in Montreal's Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 09:40 PM

Be Right Back

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Neighmond
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 09:33 PM

Another one:

Charles our watches kept in motion
for countless years with great devotion
thy balance or thy mainspring's broke
and all thy movements cease to work.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Neighmond
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 09:30 PM

my name
vital dates
wishes to announce that he has a fine house and grounds, for rent, at modest cost. Inquiries may be diricted to (childs' name here).

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: DonMeixner
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 09:59 PM

"I did the best I could with the Time I had."

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: WyoWoman
Date: 25 May 00 - 11:15 PM

I favor:

"See, I TOLD you I was sick."

or

"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

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

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.

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)

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)

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

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: The Shambles
Date: 24 May 00 - 05:16 AM

THE END...............?

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~

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.

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)

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

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
Life is a gift, you get it free.
Some people are granted the use of it
for a much longer time than others.
But there is not much point in complaining about that.
To me, it seems better to make use of it while you have it.

And, he did

© G. L. Hudson Family

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."

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Melani
Date: 23 May 00 - 02:27 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 23 May 00 - 02:03 AM

I was the world's most modest person.

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

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Max
Date: 22 May 00 - 06:37 PM

www.mudcat.org

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

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: kendall
Date: 22 May 00 - 02:59 PM

cat got your tongue?

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 May 00 - 02:38 PM

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..>