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30 Nov 04 - 12:07 PM (#1343318) Subject: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST When the time comes and death grabs ya buy the short n curlies, what do you want on your gravestone to leave your mark in history? I'd have "Gone for lunch" |
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30 Nov 04 - 12:08 PM (#1343320) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Rapparee Still thirsty. |
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30 Nov 04 - 12:21 PM (#1343335) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Pauline L Something that Martin Luther King said in one of his last sermons (?): In my life, I have tried to love my fellow man. |
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30 Nov 04 - 12:27 PM (#1343343) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Clinton Hammond "He's Not Here" |
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30 Nov 04 - 12:39 PM (#1343363) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Sorcha Nobody Home |
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30 Nov 04 - 12:41 PM (#1343364) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Dead Horse He went peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers! (OK, I stole it, but it fits) |
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30 Nov 04 - 12:49 PM (#1343377) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Mooh Don't want me or my family to waste our money on a gravestone, a plot, or any other of the trappings of a burial. All I want is a cheap cremation and my ashes spread over one of my favourite places, near both my Dad and my sister. My happiest days were and are spent there, and I hope they always will be. Don't put no gravestone on my grave. Thanks anyway. Peace, Mooh. |
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30 Nov 04 - 12:53 PM (#1343384) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Schantieman I want to be buried in a wood with an oak tree planted on top of me. If anyone wants to put anything on the tree, that's up to them - I won't be around! Steve |
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30 Nov 04 - 01:05 PM (#1343400) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Stilly River Sage No grave or marker for me, thanks. Cremation and scattering. |
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30 Nov 04 - 01:07 PM (#1343403) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull dunno, not really thought about it. How about="jOhn from Hull-Dead"? |
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30 Nov 04 - 01:07 PM (#1343404) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Cod Fiddler I told you I was Ill! (Spike Milligan) |
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30 Nov 04 - 01:16 PM (#1343416) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Deckman My daughter has threatned to put the following on my stone: "Dad went through life an hour early". CHEERS, Bob |
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30 Nov 04 - 01:18 PM (#1343420) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: alanabit "Sorry, wrong place mate!" I am going to be cremated. |
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30 Nov 04 - 01:22 PM (#1343426) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy how about 'No Forwarding Address' I'm with the rest of the cremated/scattered crowd |
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30 Nov 04 - 01:28 PM (#1343434) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: ToulouseCruise a date sometime in 2090 or so... I think that would make me 122 yrs old... sounds like a record B |
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30 Nov 04 - 01:35 PM (#1343443) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Clinton Hammond Or... "This is a waste of space" Or "Reserved" Or "Yer standing on my nuts" |
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30 Nov 04 - 01:43 PM (#1343453) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Little Hawk To paraphrase Clinton Hammond's: "I'm not here." Anyway, I'm not planning to have a gravestone. |
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30 Nov 04 - 01:47 PM (#1343464) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Toenails John ....Fell asleep on (date) MAN is he gonna be pissed off when he wakes up |
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30 Nov 04 - 01:50 PM (#1343470) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Chief Chaos I don't believe you guys have missed two classics: "What a Long Strange Trip It's Been" and "It's worse than that, I'm dead Jim!" |
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30 Nov 04 - 01:56 PM (#1343476) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Justa Picker "He gave to worms and maggots what he refused homosexual men all of his life." |
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30 Nov 04 - 02:01 PM (#1343480) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Peace Body going to a medical school. Don't care what they do with it. |
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30 Nov 04 - 02:34 PM (#1343499) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: grumpy al I want to be buried at sea, with the proviso that my Ex Wife has to dance on my grave. |
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30 Nov 04 - 02:37 PM (#1343502) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Clinton Hammond Here here brucie! |
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30 Nov 04 - 02:42 PM (#1343507) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Catherine Jayne Im going to be cremated and my ashes scattered in woodland. I want people to plant a tree adn have a party, tell a joke, sing a song and play music. Its not a sad time, its a celebration of my life adn life in general and to see me off on the next leg of my journey! |
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30 Nov 04 - 02:45 PM (#1343509) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Geoff the Duck Somebody else's name.... Quack!! GtD. |
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30 Nov 04 - 03:04 PM (#1343522) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: The Walrus My first thought was "Not Just aAnother Suburban W*nker" but a better (and more accepable) version might be: "Bits of him live on" (I've got a muliple doner card - eyes, heart, lungs, liver and whatever else they can salvage - Don't just bury me, break me for spares!) As for the funeral, I'll go for my family standard; a conventional funeral to say 'Goodbye' the a party afterwards to celbrate the life remembered (I've got money set aside for a barrel). Walrus |
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30 Nov 04 - 03:18 PM (#1343528) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Scooby Doo My body is going for medical research so there wont be a funeral as such.But there will be a fine party for everyone to enjoy in my local where ever that will be. |
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30 Nov 04 - 03:34 PM (#1343538) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Ebbie My Work Here is Done Hi Yo, Silver! |
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30 Nov 04 - 03:38 PM (#1343546) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: the fence "Late again" |
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30 Nov 04 - 04:11 PM (#1343582) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,John O'Lennaine When I was a teenager my mother used to say my headstone should read: "He meant to do it" If, why I die, (if I haven't already), I have done it I would like "He did it", and if not, "Still working on it Mum" |
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30 Nov 04 - 04:30 PM (#1343605) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Little Hawk On Bambi's grave: "The Buck Stops Here" |
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30 Nov 04 - 04:39 PM (#1343609) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,amergin I'm not going to be buried...I'm going to be stuffed and used as a coat rack. |
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30 Nov 04 - 04:48 PM (#1343617) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Little Hawk Great idea! |
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30 Nov 04 - 04:52 PM (#1343622) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,amergin Maybe they can cut out a portion of my stomache...to be used as a shelving area for all of the william shatner cds... |
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30 Nov 04 - 05:12 PM (#1343649) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Joybell All you lucky people who got their bookings in early. As I've mentioned before, when we rang them, the medical school here told us "No more donations until after the new year". Still trying to figure out how they know when we're gonna go? Amergin, A tripe sheving unit. Now you don't see that every day. If I was to have a gravestone, which I won't (I'll try to hold out until next year) I'd have rather liked: "Just tell them that you saw me" From the song of that name. Of course it's not very funny and I do like funny. Maybe the way I sign off at the time of my passing over would be the go. For now it's Cheery-bye, Joy |
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30 Nov 04 - 05:21 PM (#1343661) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: skipy What ever headstone protective coating they have developed in 500 years time! eh! perhaps not then! Skipy |
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30 Nov 04 - 05:24 PM (#1343663) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Bobert Well, danged... |
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30 Nov 04 - 06:51 PM (#1343735) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: HuwG "Didn't get up this mornin'..." ;-) |
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30 Nov 04 - 06:57 PM (#1343742) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Chris Green After a particularly cack gig the other night - "This beats the shit out of playing in Dudley". :) |
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30 Nov 04 - 07:02 PM (#1343748) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Rapparee I've always said that I wanted to be encased in a cylinder of plastic, like a starfish in a biology lab. Encased standing, clothed in some obnoxious thing, both hands raised to about chest level, palms towards my body, middle fingers raised. An eyebolt in the top of the cylinder. Then they can just drill a hole and stick me in, corking it with a neat cylindrical stone. Therefore, in the future, if anyone says, "Gee, I wonder what he looked like and thought of life?" they can uncork the grave, put a hook into the eyebolt, yank me up, and find out the answers. (Actually, my driver's license states that anything that's needed can be used -- and my wife knows that. I really don't care about a stone, but if they have one I don't want one of those dinky, silly flat things. I want something that the caretakers have to mow around. And having made the things, I want it done right if it's to be done at all.) |
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30 Nov 04 - 07:03 PM (#1343749) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Shanghaiceltic Medical science can have my body but whatever bits not used need to be buried. 'Rest in Pieces' |
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30 Nov 04 - 07:23 PM (#1343771) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: The Fooles Troupe When I'm dead, I'll definitely be stuffed... |
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30 Nov 04 - 07:39 PM (#1343785) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST 1. Died on (insert date)with great reluctance John Ireland |
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30 Nov 04 - 09:04 PM (#1343842) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: JennyO 200. I thank you. |
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30 Nov 04 - 09:06 PM (#1343846) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Joe_F He got around to everything eventually. |
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30 Nov 04 - 09:11 PM (#1343850) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Jeep man "HE DONE HIS DAMNDEST" JEEP |
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30 Nov 04 - 09:16 PM (#1343855) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Blissfully Ignorant 'It's warmer in Hell' |
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30 Nov 04 - 10:25 PM (#1343916) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: mack/misophist No epitaph. No stone. Cremation sounds good. Just dump the ashes in the trash. Best would be to drop the body into the middle of a big wilderness and let the animals have it. |
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30 Nov 04 - 10:25 PM (#1343917) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: katlaughing Next? |
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30 Nov 04 - 10:50 PM (#1343933) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: freightdawg Rats, Geoff. You beat me to it. My second choice, "Old Pilots Never Die. He Just Landed At The Wrong Airport" Of course, my headstone is going to be so big that is just the beginning of what I want written on it. (snigger, snigger) Freightdawg |
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30 Nov 04 - 11:39 PM (#1343972) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: open mike IF YOU DO WANT TO DONATE YOUR BODY TO MEDICAL SCIENCE you need to make prepartaions well before the time. find the nearest medical facility and find out whqat their policy is. My parents donated thier bodies and it was a great feeling to know they were able to help future medical students. Some have restrictions on travel time, transportation, etc. and the people around need to know what arrangements have been made . |
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30 Nov 04 - 11:57 PM (#1343981) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST Justa Picker - you're warped! |
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01 Dec 04 - 12:56 AM (#1344017) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Justa Picker Nice of you to notice. :-) |
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01 Dec 04 - 12:58 AM (#1344018) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: chris nightbird childs "Let yr spirit burn, 'n they'll still smell the smoke when yr gone" |
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01 Dec 04 - 02:48 AM (#1344063) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST Good night, Gracie. |
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01 Dec 04 - 03:47 AM (#1344100) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Seamus Kennedy I've made arrangements to leave my body to medical science (U.MD) but if I did have a headstone, I'd like "Dig me up quick! I'm not dead." Or: "Seamus Kennedy, the World's Greatest Hide-And-Seek Player." Or:" Seamus Kennedy - died of Narcolepsy. Oh shit! Wait! Dig! Dig!" Seamus |
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01 Dec 04 - 04:35 AM (#1344118) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Crystal Hmmm. I'd have a flat one with "Memorial dancefloor" on it. |
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01 Dec 04 - 05:04 AM (#1344130) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Dave Hanson On the whole I'd rather be in Philadelphia. [ WC Fields ] eric |
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01 Dec 04 - 05:18 AM (#1344138) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Big Al Whittle I always liked the Derek brimstone line:- If I should die, think only this of me In some corner of a foreign field lies... a plagiarist. Its a depressing thought alright, a lovely sunny morning like today and the party goes on without us - no one much noticing that we've checked out, and won't be coming back. Like Keats said, here lies one whose name was writ in water.... Like a lot of people here I've left instuctions, I don't want any kind of funeral. People have a chance to say nice things about you when you're alive. that's when it counts. someone once wrote that Dickens wept over Thackeray's grave, but when they were both alive the and competing with each other, the boxing gloves were off.......an unpleasant side to us a species! |
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01 Dec 04 - 06:11 AM (#1344177) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Ellenpoly So why exactly are you asking this, huh? Do you know something I don't know? Huh? Huh? I have no intention of being buried. I want my body to be eaten by my friends. If they refuse, I'll let the medics have me. Anyone want to sign up now for my brain? It's been only lightly used, and should be quite tasty with a little marinara sauce. ;-D ..xx..e |
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01 Dec 04 - 06:11 AM (#1344179) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: kendall I KNEW IF I LIVED LONG ENOUGH THIS WOULD HAPPEN |
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01 Dec 04 - 07:01 AM (#1344197) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: muppett Beneath this sod lies another |
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01 Dec 04 - 07:41 AM (#1344219) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: JennyO All this talk of dying and gravestones reminded me of a poem - maybe a quote from it somewhere might be apt. Reincarnation - Wallace McRae What does reincarnation mean?" A cowpoke asked his friend. His pal replied, "It happens when Yer life has reached its end. They comb yer hair, and warsh yer neck, And clean yer fingernails, And lay you in a padded box Away from life's travails. "The box and you goes in a hole, that's been dug into the ground. Reincarnation starts in when Yore planted 'neath a mound. Them clods melt down, just like yer box, And you who is inside. And then yore just beginnin' on Yer transformation ride. "In a while the grass'll grow Upon yer rendered mound. Till some day on yer moldered grave A lonely flower is found. And say a hoss should wander by And graze upon this flower That once wuz you, but now's become Yer vegetative bower. "The posey that the hoss done ate Up, with his other feed, Makes bone, and fat, and muscle Essential to the steed. But some is left that he can't use And so it passes through, And finally lays upon the ground. This thing, that once wuz you. "Then say, by chance, I wanders by And sees this upon the ground, And I ponders, and I wonders at, This object that I found. I thinks of reincarnation, Of life, and death, and such, And come away concludin': Slim, You ain't changed all that much." |
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01 Dec 04 - 09:13 AM (#1344290) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Bat Goddess JennyO -- a friend of ours does that recitation at our sessions occasionally. Love it! Since I can't dispose of my body by slow oxidation in the treetops (I'm afraid of height, anyway), I'm also opting for cremation and scattering. But since I've spent so much of my life studying New England slate gravestones, I really want one as a marker. I'll probably carve it myself if I can't get one of my favorite (living) carvers to do it. Haven't a clue as to what I want on it, though. Best line I've run into in my meanderings through old graveyards is on the markers for TWO different women in York, Maine -- "She lived desired and died lamented." Probably can't get much better than that! Linn (the thanatolithologist) |
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01 Dec 04 - 09:27 AM (#1344308) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Ellenpoly Speaking of old gravestone markers, here's one from my local cemetary which always catches my eye in my regular rambles: "He Had a Love Affair With Death" |
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01 Dec 04 - 11:04 AM (#1344394) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Rapparee He died first: "Stranger, note as you pass by As you are now, so once was I As I am now, so will you be Prepare for Death and follow me." And his good friend, next to whom he'd purchased his grave and with whom he'd had a falling out just before he died, passed away and had this as his epitath: "To follow you I'm not content For I know not which way you went." Why not buy a large field somewhere, a sunny field bordered by mountains and the seashore, and turn it into the Mudcat Memorial Field? Graves and gravestones, scatterings, a mausoleum (you want it, you build it), a couple of pubs, picnic tables, gardens, nooks for private moments alone or with others, places to place and sing -- British Columbia, Washington, or Oregon come to mind as places that might have such a place available. |
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01 Dec 04 - 11:18 AM (#1344407) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Flash Company How about:- I'm a Celebrity, get me out of here! FC |
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01 Dec 04 - 11:22 AM (#1344411) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Cluin "Just another dead fucker" |
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01 Dec 04 - 02:00 PM (#1344581) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Megan L My aunt has "you love me best who are happy for me" some old ones Here lies the father of 49 he would have had more but he didnt have time. Here lies Ann Mann she lived and old maid and died an old mann. here we lie back to back my wife and I and when the final trump shall trill if she gets up then i'll lie still. Mine "so thats what that button did" |
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01 Dec 04 - 03:54 PM (#1344694) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: akenaton "I have no connection to Huntington Life Scieces" |
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01 Dec 04 - 04:19 PM (#1344721) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: beadie I'm rather partial to the epitaph that Peter O'Toole claims to have appropriated from a note sent to him by his dry-cleaner, . . . "it distresses us to return a piece of work uncompleted." Personally, I'll be cremated, . . . I don't want to unnecessarily take up good fairway. |
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01 Dec 04 - 05:55 PM (#1344788) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Rapparee Ship your ashes to me, beadie, and I'll sprinkle them on the 2nd fairway of the Highland Golf Course -- actually, I'll just dump them over my back fence and you'll be in the rough, but what the hell -- most of the golfers around here seem to spend an eternity there. |
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01 Dec 04 - 06:14 PM (#1344806) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: harpgirl WAIT!!! I have to tune my autoharp first! |
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01 Dec 04 - 06:24 PM (#1344815) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Big Mick "Look, he's moving" Mick |
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01 Dec 04 - 07:12 PM (#1344874) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Bee-dubya-ell What do I want on my gravestone? Chutney. Or maybe some good salsa. I never eat gravestones without something spicey on them. If there's anything more bland tasting than a gravestone, I don't know what it is. |
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01 Dec 04 - 07:15 PM (#1344879) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Chris Green After having seen "The Vanishing" how about "Dig! Now please!" |
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01 Dec 04 - 07:23 PM (#1344888) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Ebbie This is an outrage! Don't you know who I am? |
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01 Dec 04 - 07:48 PM (#1344911) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Snuffy I like the one for the village postmistress: Here lies Martha Jones, spinster and For forty years postmistress returned unopened |
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01 Dec 04 - 10:07 PM (#1345012) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Joe_F George Orwell said that if he were a woman, he would like Stand close around, ye Stygian set, With Dirce in one boat conveyed, Lest Charon, seeing, should forget That he is old and she a shade. He said it would almost be worth being dead to have that written about you. I feel the same about this one from Mencken's Quotations: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout, who loved his friend, and persuaded his enemy; what his mouth ate, his hand paid for: what his servants robbed, he restored: if a woman gave him pleasure, he supported her in pain: he never forgot his children: and whoso touched his finger, drew after it his whole body. Mencken also quotes the following by Byron: Posterity will ne'er survey A nobler grave than this: Here lies the bones of Castlereagh: Stop, traveler, -------. There is also something to be said for the end of a famous poem by Goethe: Warte nur, balde Ruhest du auch. Be patient: soon you will rest too. In the real world, tho, I expect to follow my mother to the Boston University School of Medicine. |
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01 Dec 04 - 10:37 PM (#1345027) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Peace Count Dracula 1236- 1458- 1527- 1703- 1823- 1995- |
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01 Dec 04 - 11:51 PM (#1345075) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: mg stop right where you are and say a prayer to get me out of purgatory. mg |
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02 Dec 04 - 04:41 PM (#1345686) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Bat Goddess A number of years ago (I've got the clipping somewhere in my files), a pub was selling final resting places in the brick wall of the pub and under the brick floor. Jay Smith still owned The Press Room at the time, and I suggested the idea to him. I wanted the spot behind the painting above the bar or maybe a plaque under my favorite bar stool (even though I spend most of my Press Room time holding down a chair in the session/singaround corner). I know I'd like to have all that conviviality and music around my final resting place. There's a guy in Boston who has a grave warming ceremony every year. He has a piper lead the parade to the cemetery, then he lies down on his plot for a few minutes, and then everyone retires to the local pub for a pint. Linn |
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02 Dec 04 - 04:57 PM (#1345704) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp Well, I got a few ideas on this... How about: "What are YOU lookin' at???" Or: "On Vacation till further notice" Or a button. A red button. No explanation. When the person pushes the button a panel opens in the gravestone and a fake tommygun pops out and blasts 'em with blank cartridges!!! Then my voice says, "Oh! Sorry about that... I thought it was the North Side gorillas comin' to collect." I wanta be buried as close to King Kong as I can manage, but I ain't goin' till I'm good and ready! |
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02 Dec 04 - 09:17 PM (#1345912) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Pogo I would have a gravstone laid on the ground On one side it would have " Please Turn Me Over " And the other side would have " Thanks...I needed that " {O) |
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03 Dec 04 - 04:47 AM (#1346103) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Paul Burke This is widely runoured to be authentic: Here lies the bones of Elizabeth Moore Born a virgin, died a whore. She was aye a virgin at seventeen A remarkable thing in Aberdeen. But I want: He never realised that it's never too late until it was too late |
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03 Dec 04 - 02:43 PM (#1346601) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Tannywheeler I intend to be cremated, after they've taken anything healthy enough to be useful to anyone else. If there's any kind of a memorial that my family puts up it should read: "Throughout eternity to thee A joyful song I'll raise; But, oh -- ETERNITY'S TOO SHORT To utter all thy praise." This is the last verse of a poem by Addison (remember paradox in high school Eng. Lit. class?) the whole of which is a hymn in the Episcopal Hymnal(1940 & '82). One of my favorites. Tw |
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03 Dec 04 - 03:37 PM (#1346655) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Cluin "I've got Oreos down here..." |
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03 Dec 04 - 04:21 PM (#1346689) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: beadie Thanks for the offer, Rapaire. I'll tell the Missus that she won't have to dust my urn every week. . . . I'd much rather fertilise the fairway (or the rough) than occupy a six by three foot chunk of it with an obstacle in the form of a gravestone impeding the ball's trajectory to the pin. |
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03 Dec 04 - 05:32 PM (#1346739) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,stevi they say that when yer go yer cant take it with you ! if its not their when ive gone ime coming back! stevi |
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05 Dec 04 - 01:48 AM (#1347781) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Cluin Being dead sucks |
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05 Dec 04 - 03:55 AM (#1347814) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Big Al Whittle I don't know about anybody else but I'm finding this current crop of macabre postings and intimations of mortality......well a little unnerving. On blokes on about what to do with his instruments when he's dead , and this one. Come back sir jOhn with his dead cats, etc |
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05 Dec 04 - 10:40 AM (#1347983) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Little Hawk Cliun - How do you know that for sure? |
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05 Dec 04 - 02:37 PM (#1348130) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Cluin Coz it'll be on the gravestone. Y'know, written in stone an' all that? |
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05 Dec 04 - 07:33 PM (#1348306) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Peace Get it written using the futhorc alphabet and really screw 'em up. (And put the birth/death dates to 1,200 years ago.) Drive someone nuts after you're gone. |
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05 Dec 04 - 08:01 PM (#1348333) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Little Hawk Oh, I see... :-) I've been thinking of putting a photo of Martin Gibson on my gravestone, so as to scare away potential grave-robbers. (Not that there'd be any point robbing my grave...) |
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06 Dec 04 - 08:11 AM (#1348714) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Kendall I knew if I lived long enough something like this would happen |
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06 Dec 04 - 08:16 AM (#1348719) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: mooman "Impermanence" or just plain blank will do me fine. Peace moo |
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06 Dec 04 - 08:40 AM (#1348741) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Amos Anonymous Guest |
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07 Dec 04 - 01:36 AM (#1349627) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Art Thieme HE KNEW WHAT FOLK MUSIC IS (and M.G. didn't!) |
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07 Dec 04 - 01:58 AM (#1349636) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Cluin On a grave in the East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia: Here lies Ezekial Aikle Age 102 The Good Die Young. In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery: Anna Wallace The children of Israel wanted bread And the Lord sent them manna, Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna. A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery: Sacred to the memory of my husband John Barnes who died January 3, 1803 His comely young widow, aged 23, has many qualifications of a good wife, and yearns to be comforted. Epitaph for a loving husband, by his widow: Rest in peace - Until we meet again. From Shropshire, England: Here lies the body of Martha Elias Always busy, but not very pious She lived to the age of threescore and ten And gave to the worms what she refused to men. In Devon, England: Here lie I, by the chancel door, Here lie I, because I'm poor, The farther in, the more you pay, Yet here lie I, as warm as they. One from a graveyard in Sargentville, Maine: Sacred to the memory of Elisha Philbrook and his wife Beneath these stones do lie, back to back, my wife and I When the last trumpet the air shall fill, If she gets up, I'll just lie still. From Kilmurry, Ireland: This stone was raised by Sarah's lord, Not Sarah's virtues to record, For they're well known to all the town, But it was raised to keep her down. In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery: Here lays Butch, We planted him raw. He was quick on the trigger, But slow on the draw. A lawyer's epitaph in England: Sir John Strange Here lies an honest lawyer, And that is Strange. Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont: I was somebody. Who, is no business Of yours. Here lies the body of an atheist... All dressed up and no place to go |
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07 Dec 04 - 07:20 AM (#1349768) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,daylia Two Beings clothed in Light saying "She is not here". :-) |
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07 Dec 04 - 12:23 PM (#1350012) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Donuel "I thank my parents without whom I would have never come this far" |
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07 Dec 04 - 01:02 PM (#1350049) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,JTT I think I'd like something like: "For sale or rent, 300-year-old gravestone. Owner still alive and can't be bothered storing it." |
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07 Dec 04 - 01:10 PM (#1350058) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,The Original Web Geek Mr. T Ate My Balls |
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07 Dec 04 - 01:16 PM (#1350063) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Georgiansilver So do you believe in re-incarnation??? These two guys were talking in a hotel I was in.....One asked the other what he was doing there and he told him he was in London for the "Conference on Reincarnation". He said "I have paid £5500 altogether to come from America and stay at this expensive hotel, just for the conference". The man he was talking to said..."That is a lot of money" To which the American man replied "Well I thought, what the heck man You only live once!!!!.................... Best wishes. |
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07 Dec 04 - 05:46 PM (#1350353) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Little Hawk Well, the fact is you DO only live once as the specific role you are playing in this life....regardless of reincarnation. So it makes sense either way. |
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07 Dec 04 - 07:07 PM (#1350426) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Chris Green There's a story about a bloke in Yorkshire whose wife died. He wanted on the gravestone under her name "She was thine". He went to see the grave and the mason had put on the stone "She was thin." So he rang the mason and told he'd left the E out. He went back the following week and it read "Eeee, she was thin!" :) |
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08 Dec 04 - 06:57 PM (#1351403) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Juan P-B My Missus is as houseproud as they come so when I go I'm gonna be cremated and have my ashes scattered on our front room carpet Then there was they gay who died - His loving partner had him cremated then mixed him into a Vindaloo Curry just so that he could tear his arse up one last time Juan P-B PS - Nice to see Martine Gibbon is still getting up peoples snotters!! |
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09 Dec 04 - 11:16 AM (#1352029) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: kendall On a stone in Tombstone Arizona: He called Bill Smith a liar. and: Here lies Fred. He's dead, there's no more to be said. |
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09 Dec 04 - 11:18 AM (#1352034) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Mingulay WHAT, NO ENCORE!!!! or THIS IS A GRAVE SITUATION. |
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23 Oct 05 - 02:47 PM (#1589103) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,DOC ROGERS (DOCROGER@MAINE.RR.COM) Your original message says that you are one of (if not the only) people still SINGING this song. I am impressed out of my mind! I didn't think anybody still knew this song. As for the male singers referenced as having sung and/or recorded the piece, that is begging the question. The lyrics hardly conduce a male speaker (though I have to admit that my devotion to the song has persuaded me to sing it every now and then). thanks for your note & best regards & keep on keepin on doc |
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23 Oct 05 - 02:48 PM (#1589105) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Peace Was kinda hoping for b. 1947- d. 2057 |
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23 Oct 05 - 04:07 PM (#1589154) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Mr Red "If you can read this YOU ARE TOO DAMN CLOSE" |
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23 Oct 05 - 04:25 PM (#1589165) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: bobad You can have your body turned into a permanent work of art. |
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23 Oct 05 - 05:18 PM (#1589186) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Firecat When I eventually go (hopefully not before 5 January 2084, my 100th birthday) I'd like a process I read about in the paper. First the body is dipped into liquid nitrogen, then is gently shaken so it becomes a powder. A magnet is used to get rid of any metal (fillings, false joints etc), and the powder is put into a coffin made of potato or maize starch. This is buried and a tree is planted in the soil above the coffin. After about a year, the coffin has biodegraded and turned into compost. A plaque shows who is being grown on. The plaque should read either "She grew on people, now something's growing on her", or "Now, weary traveller, rest your head, For just like me, you're utterly dead". |
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23 Oct 05 - 06:27 PM (#1589243) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Peace Sounds like a plan. What's it cost? |
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23 Oct 05 - 07:15 PM (#1589275) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Rapparee Actually, I want to be encased in plastic, like those starfish and things in a high school biology lab. I want to be standing up when this is done and the plastic made into a cylinder. A hookeye should be placed in the plastic, and a hole drilled to accomodate the cylinder. On top will be a cylindrical gravestone giving my name, dates (birth and death, not all of those girls), and a few facts about me -- my Nobel Peace Prize, a list of my Grammys and Oscars, etc. The epitath will read "Still thirsty!" or "Returned to Sender" or something equally short. BUT! When folks in the future wonder what I looked like, all they have to do is pull out the gravestone, hook a derrick or wrecker or whatever to the eyebolt, and hoist away! Up I'll come, looking as natural as the day I was put into the plastic. My eyes open, mouth in a nice smile, both middle fingers upraised.... |
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23 Oct 05 - 08:26 PM (#1589326) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: gnu Get off me! |
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23 Oct 05 - 08:29 PM (#1589328) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Peace "What do you want on your gravestone?" The bodies of my enemies. That would be nice. |
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23 Oct 05 - 09:09 PM (#1589364) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Joe_F inanimate inaminute --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Sexual morality is properly a department of hospitality. :|| |
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24 Oct 05 - 05:10 AM (#1589500) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Stephen L. Rich It should say, "After a lifetime as an entertainer you'd think that I'd be used to this by now." Stephen Lee |
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24 Oct 05 - 05:27 AM (#1589507) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Dave Hanson Gone fishing. eric |
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24 Oct 05 - 10:27 AM (#1589664) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Janie "27 years in therapy.... Almost cured" or "Never voted for a winning candidate in a major election" (both from Matt Groenig's "Life in Hell" Janie |
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24 Oct 05 - 06:27 PM (#1590036) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler I think I would like - "For Sale Gravestone. Owner no longer needs as has recovered." |
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24 Oct 05 - 06:52 PM (#1590048) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: bobad Another epitaph at Boot Hill ; Here lies Lester Moore No Les no Moore |
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24 Oct 05 - 07:52 PM (#1590089) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: LilyFestre Beloved Wife, Friend and Mother Michelle |
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25 Oct 05 - 11:44 AM (#1590532) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Noddy Vacant, Available for long lease. |
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25 Oct 05 - 02:04 PM (#1590658) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: NH Dave Born 19NN, Died 2065. |
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25 Oct 05 - 09:40 PM (#1590842) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Joe_F Peace: "My grave's no bad: they've put intill't / Twa o the Sassenachs I killt. / I'll kill them again as soon's the horn / Toots on the Resurrection morn. -- Hugh MacDiarmid" --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: His sunburn will finally unburn, But he's burned in the moonlight for keeps. :|| |
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26 Oct 05 - 01:52 PM (#1590967) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Chief Chaos After a pretty bad accident with a bus I came up with the following: Here lay the remains of old Dave H. Killed by an oncoming bus He should have listened to our add And left the driving to us! |
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26 Oct 05 - 03:00 PM (#1591035) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: lady penelope Yes I rather fancy the liquid nitrogen thing for all the bits that neither usefull nor wanted. I don't want a grave stone as such, but a wooden plaque grown into a tree with the words "I ain'tnt dead" would amuse me no end......... TTFN Lady P. |
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26 Oct 05 - 03:31 PM (#1591062) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Back in 10 minutes |
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26 Oct 05 - 03:35 PM (#1591066) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Don(Wyziwyg)T I want an emergency exit, so I can leave whenever I choose. There is a country graveyard with a stone which says "Here lies Emily Smith, spinster of this parish, and our postmistress for forty years......Returned unopened". Don T. |
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26 Oct 05 - 04:29 PM (#1591114) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: 42 a picnic. j |
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26 Oct 05 - 07:14 PM (#1591262) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST VACANCY |
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27 Oct 05 - 02:55 AM (#1591539) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Dave Earl Was it Spike Milligan who said he wanted :- See, I told you I wasn't well. ?? |
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27 Oct 05 - 08:08 AM (#1591653) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Dave Hanson Spike Milligans epitaph is " I Told You I Was Ill " but they wouldn't allow it in english, so it's written in Irish gaelic. eric |
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27 Oct 05 - 02:58 PM (#1591831) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Chief Chaos Lady Penelope - Just don't go borrowing too long. Sometimes they don't come back. |
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27 Oct 05 - 03:08 PM (#1591840) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: MMario No trespassing. |
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27 Oct 05 - 03:10 PM (#1591844) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull jOhn from Hull, 1967-2067. |
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27 Oct 05 - 03:11 PM (#1591846) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: MMario plan on dying young then John? |
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28 Oct 05 - 07:32 AM (#1592345) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Dave Hanson I found this epitaph in a book by Ed Cray, it's from the 17th century, If one must die as oft as breath departs, Then he must often die who often farts, And if to die be but to lose one's breath, Then death's a fart, and so a fart for death. eric |
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28 Oct 05 - 04:51 PM (#1592644) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Donuel If you donate correctly there should be nothing left to bury. Who knows, some crack pot may invent organ tatoos that could really freak some doctors out one day. |
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28 Oct 05 - 08:20 PM (#1592796) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Firecat Not sure on the price of the liquid nitrogen thing, but hopefully it will become the norm. |
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29 Oct 05 - 05:52 PM (#1593358) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,TheBanjoist I will be taken back to the Rez and placed on my elevated burial bed and covered in my buffalo blanket. In a couple of years what's ever left of my bones will be crushed and mixed with the ash of all my dogs and we will be put in a river that goes to the sea...Then we will be forgotten. |
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21 Nov 05 - 02:56 AM (#1609987) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,lotta dust there are three i want the first one is actully my name "here lies Lotta Dust" "ouch your standing on my head" "here lies John Yeast pardone me for not riseing |
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21 Nov 05 - 05:42 AM (#1610060) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: MuddleC 'Standing room only' (train/bus conductor) 'life's a bitch, -but now I've died' (biker) 'dam, -it was the red wire' (bomb disposal) 'scythes sharpened while you wait' 'wake me in the morning' 'jus' when I wuz getting the hang of it..' 'now will you stop sending those tax demands?' |
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21 Nov 05 - 07:21 AM (#1610091) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Mr Fox I'm sure His Bobness won't mind if I nick a quote from one of his songs: The bottles are done We've killed each one The table's full and overflowed And the corner sign says it's closing time So I'll say farewell and be down the road. |
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21 Nov 05 - 07:31 AM (#1610096) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: *daylia* ON SABBATICAL *BE RIGHT BACK* |
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21 Nov 05 - 08:46 AM (#1610141) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST "Out to lunch. Please leave message." |
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21 Nov 05 - 01:09 PM (#1610335) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: lady penelope "I can see right up your nose......." |
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21 Nov 05 - 01:11 PM (#1610340) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Rapparee Vacancy. Call for information. |
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22 Nov 05 - 11:53 AM (#1611271) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Cluin I tried and tried and tried... And this is the thanks I get? |
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22 Nov 05 - 12:01 PM (#1611276) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Gervase Lichen and birdshit, the same as everyone else, I suppose. |
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22 Nov 05 - 08:35 PM (#1611628) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Ebbie 'Look for me in the Mountains- I am not here.' |
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22 Nov 05 - 10:25 PM (#1611714) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST "He came, he saw..said it could have been better" |
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23 Nov 05 - 06:17 PM (#1612369) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST DANCE HERE |
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25 Sep 07 - 06:48 PM (#2157374) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Toni_Init! Well...This sucks! |
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26 Sep 07 - 10:12 AM (#2157707) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker the head on a spike of the little drugged up speeding boy-racer shite who'll probably have run me down and killed me.. |
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26 Sep 07 - 02:05 PM (#2157869) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Donuel due to creamation, you are breathing me now. |
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26 Sep 07 - 02:40 PM (#2157911) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Don(Wyziwyg)T No gravestone! No grave! Just cremate me and deliver my ashes to "Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs" with a note saying "I hope you are happy now. You've got the lot, you Bastards. Don T. |
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26 Sep 07 - 04:40 PM (#2158010) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Little Hawk "Your opinion means diddly to me." |
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26 Sep 07 - 04:47 PM (#2158018) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: John MacKenzie I am going to be buried at sea, so all the people who have said they would love to dance on my grave are welcome to do so. Giok |
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26 Sep 07 - 05:59 PM (#2158052) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Amos "AHJ -- 1945 - ???? "He Ain't Daid Yet!!!" |
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27 Sep 07 - 12:02 PM (#2158589) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Little Hawk How about, "What are YOU lookin' at?" I liked Timon's motto on his grave: "Timon the misanthrope am I below. Go and revile me, stranger, only go." |
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27 Sep 07 - 04:04 PM (#2158767) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Genie Well, since I want my body to be used for medical research at some university, I guess what the 'inscription' should be is: "This WILL be on the test." |
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27 Sep 07 - 04:05 PM (#2158770) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Little Hawk What? All of it??? What if some local Dr Frankenstein makes off with your brain and uses it for some unholy purpose? ;-) |
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28 Sep 07 - 12:00 AM (#2159014) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,MarkS Just see that my grave is kept clean. (After all, this is a music site) |
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28 Sep 07 - 03:48 AM (#2159076) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Catherine Jayne Just reread this thread and I still stick by what I said years before! |
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28 Sep 07 - 09:20 PM (#2159675) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Bill the sound This is a cenotaph I wont be here for years yet |
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29 Sep 07 - 07:46 AM (#2159846) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Mad Jock AVAILABLE FOR LONG TERM RENT. |
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03 Dec 07 - 06:36 PM (#2207881) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Euan "He Lol'd in life, he Lol's in death" |
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03 Dec 07 - 08:06 PM (#2207929) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: skipy Bird shit? Skipy What would you do if a bird shit on your windscreen? Well, I'd never go out with her again! |
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04 Dec 07 - 03:54 AM (#2208087) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: aussiebloke A parking meter, showing 'expired' should do the trick, or I'd be happy with the simple words 'Kids liked him'. |
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04 Dec 07 - 07:14 AM (#2208165) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: bankley hopefully ,not a lot of bird shit... |
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04 Dec 07 - 03:42 PM (#2208541) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Folk Form # 1 Roland Kirk, the jazz musician, said that when he died, he wanted to be cremated so that people could smoke his ashes and get high. Inpractical, when you think about it. Ashes don't burn as they've already been burnt. Still nice thought, I suppose. On Yeat's grave, it quotes one of his own poems: Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by. |
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04 Dec 07 - 03:57 PM (#2208545) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,sinky went to heaven and all i got was this lousy gravestone |
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04 Dec 07 - 04:58 PM (#2208597) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Rowan Live and love life! You're a long time dead. Cheers, Rowan. |
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05 Dec 07 - 01:08 PM (#2209234) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: topical tom If in life you held me dear, play some folk and bluegrass here. |
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05 Dec 07 - 02:52 PM (#2209315) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Geordie-Peorgie Aah'm only stopping for one drink!! |
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05 Dec 07 - 02:56 PM (#2209324) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Amos "He Never Believed Bush" would do. A |
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05 Dec 07 - 03:15 PM (#2209343) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Mark Ross "MARK ROSS FOLKSINGER MORS ANTE SERVITIUM,* ILLEGITIMI NON CARBORUNDOM** TAKE IT EASY, BUT TAKE IT!" *Death Before Employment **Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down Mark Ross |
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05 Dec 07 - 04:58 PM (#2209419) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: autolycus If Imhave one, perhaps, HOW VERY INTERESTING THAT WAS a quote from The Goon Show. One I remember from long ago, here lies the body of Jonathan Blake who stepped on the gas instead of the brake Ivor |
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28 Aug 08 - 08:58 PM (#2425035) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Alec James Thanks Anyway |
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28 Aug 08 - 09:06 PM (#2425046) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: olddude Eternal rest at the best Hot Dog Stand ever. |
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29 Aug 08 - 09:02 PM (#2425967) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Joe_F First you go to hell, then your body rots, and then you die. |
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29 Aug 08 - 09:09 PM (#2425972) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: olddude I read that some celeb had "I told you I was sick" |
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29 Aug 08 - 09:19 PM (#2425978) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Ed T A beer stien, right on top. |
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29 Aug 08 - 09:25 PM (#2425979) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: bobad A button which, when pressed, blows a raspberry AKA a Bronx cheer or an unvoiced linguolabial trill. |
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30 Aug 08 - 12:49 PM (#2426315) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: vectis On a Sussex grave "He was never dull" Not a bad epitaph. |
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30 Aug 08 - 02:24 PM (#2426368) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Lizzie Cornish 1 From olddude: >>I read that some celeb had "I told you I was sick" << It was our beloved Spike Milligan, Dan...greatly missed over here in the UK. He was just the funniest man. Suffered terrible depression in his life though, often locking himself away for weeks at a time, but when he came back to us, he made us cry with laughter. He was one of The Goons, along with Harry Seccombe, Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine. He was all around, everywhere, in my childhood...and he was still there making my daughter laugh, so many years later. If only we could have him back again! Still, we sell loads of books about Spike in The National Trust shop, so he's still very much loved and far from forgotten about. I told you I was ill Spike Milligan on Room 101 The Goonshow - What Time Is It Eccles? |
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30 Aug 08 - 06:51 PM (#2426516) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Little Hawk I have no desire to have a gravestone. As soon as I'm done here I'll be busy dealing with the next thing anyway, so why worry about gravestones? |
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31 Aug 08 - 02:52 AM (#2426627) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: mg I don't know if I said this or not..someone else said it long before...she never had any fun (substitute great accomplishments) but she had state benefits....mg |
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10 Nov 08 - 05:52 AM (#2489649) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Flo, Kayla and Emily!! What do you mean im dead?!! |
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10 Nov 08 - 09:21 AM (#2489768) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Dani "86" |
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10 Nov 08 - 09:51 AM (#2489791) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Donuel Human nature being what it is... just 5 words DO NOT LICK THIS STONE ! (A small three foot lime stone/marble marker will have been marninated in a mixture of X and LSD for two months. Small side drilling holes will insure total absorbtion. A small wishing well type roof will be erected to keep the rain off the stone and the bottom of the stone that is beneath the earth will be coated with poly urethane) |
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10 Nov 08 - 09:54 AM (#2489794) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: goatfell in very small letters 'YOU ARE STANDING N MY BALLS' or as Spike Milligan says ' I TOLD YOU I WAS ILL' |
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10 Nov 08 - 11:25 AM (#2489890) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: frogprince Lady Penelope's "I can see right up your nose......." triggered one other possibility I hadn't thought of before: in fairly small print, "Nice panties!". |
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10 Nov 08 - 01:48 PM (#2490031) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Justin Urqhart "Justin Urqhart. He spoke his mind and few liked it". |
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10 Nov 08 - 02:19 PM (#2490060) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Lizzie Cornish 1 "Uh Oh!" |
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10 Nov 08 - 02:28 PM (#2490069) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: George Papavgeris I'd like young couples on my gravestone... Then I can be a dirty really old man! But WRITTEN on the gravestone, I want the following: "Now that I am silent One thing above all I regret: Not singing those songs That nobody has written yet" But more realistically, I'd be happy enough if they spell the surname right! |
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10 Nov 08 - 02:29 PM (#2490071) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: George Papavgeris Of course, there's always ARE WE THERE YET? |
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10 Nov 08 - 02:32 PM (#2490074) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Cluin "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency..." |
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10 Nov 08 - 02:36 PM (#2490079) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Big Mick He was a Union Organizer, With the blood of workers in his veins... Paraphrase of a line from Bill Gallaher's "The Ballad of Ginger Goodwin". But not too soon.. All the best, Mick |
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10 Nov 08 - 04:03 PM (#2490177) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Ed T Was it all worth it? I'll get back to you on that. |
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10 Nov 08 - 06:47 PM (#2490313) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Rapparee How about a blank date of death? |
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10 Nov 08 - 06:51 PM (#2490317) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Melissa if you can read this you're facing east |
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10 Nov 08 - 07:36 PM (#2490359) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Justin Urqhart I certainly wouldn't want the mods, on this site to visit my final resting place and read my headstone. Unless it's nice, sweet and to their liking, off it comes ! No problem, proves fact & truth hurts.
But I suppose if you post David Duke shit in the cemetery, you'll get deleted there, too. -Joe Offer- |
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10 Nov 08 - 09:30 PM (#2490413) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Gurney 'Oh. Sorry, false alarm.' Won't have one anyway. |
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10 Nov 08 - 09:39 PM (#2490417) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Genie Ah, yes, Mick -- not too soon! I want mine to say "1942 - 2042" or something like that. |
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11 Nov 08 - 02:32 PM (#2490967) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Jayto "Oh God uhm you look pissed." I heard that when WC Fields was on his death bed a man approached him and noticed he was reading the Bible. He asked him about it knowing he had never been religious. He asked what he was doing. WC never looked up and replied "Looking for a loophole." I guess seriously I would want how much I love my kids. That is all that really matters to me so I would want it forever in stone. So everytime they visit my sight I could tell them in a way that I love them. I have accomplished alot in music. Music was my one love forever until I held my 1st born. After that music took a back seat and has for 10 years now. I can't imagine not being able to tell my 3 kids that I love them. So when I go out I want it on my stone so they can at least read it everytime they visit and know I had it put there because I could no longer say it but my love for them remains eternal. Ok off the mushy stuff lol |
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12 Nov 08 - 02:50 AM (#2491464) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity I might be dead..but I'm ahead of you! |
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12 Nov 08 - 07:57 AM (#2491592) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: GUEST,The black belt caterpillar wrestler "If you don't like the progressive problems associated with becoming older, consider, you are looking at the alternative". |
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12 Nov 08 - 09:26 AM (#2491676) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Rapparee Here Lies You Know Who 1945 - Good Lord, he's still out there! (And he's still thirsty.) |
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12 Nov 08 - 02:16 PM (#2491960) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: goatfell Who are you looking at? |
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12 Nov 08 - 02:53 PM (#2491999) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Little Hawk Post No Bills |
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14 Nov 08 - 04:54 PM (#2494129) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Peter the Squeezer In times (long) past, all the old cinema organists used to have thier own signature tune, so that when they came up on the lift from the pit, the audience could tell who was playing. It has become a sort of tradition, that when one of these old timers passes on, at the moment of committal during their funeral, somebody will get on the crematorium chapel organ, and play thier signature tune as the coffin dissappears. Some years ago, the body of one of these dear departed musicians was thus despatched to the strains of ... wait for it ... it's good ... "Smoke gets in your eyes" |
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14 Nov 08 - 05:26 PM (#2494159) Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone? From: Ed T I voted for MacCain/Palin...and did not get better! |