Discussion:
Real Headstones
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Donna Lantello
2006-02-04 14:53:17 UTC
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Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York:
Born 1903-Died 1942
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the
car was on the way down. It was.
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In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery:
Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up
And no place to go.
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In a London, England cemetery:
Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann.
Dec. 8, 1767
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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.
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In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:
Here lies Johnny Yeast.
Pardon me
For not rising.
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In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, cemetery:
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake.
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In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery:
Here lays The Kid.
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger
But slow on the draw.
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A lawyer's epitaph in England:
Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange.
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John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery:
Reader, if cash thou art
In want of any,
Dig 6 feet deep;
And thou wilt find a Penny.
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In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England:
On the 22nd of June,
Jonathan Fiddle
Went out of tune.
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Anna

Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls,Vermont
Here lies the body of our Anna -
Done to death by a banana.
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low,
But the skin of the thing that made her go.
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On a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket, Massachusetts:
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
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In a cemetery in England:
Remember man, as you walk by,
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, you soon will be.
Prepare yourself and follow me.
(To which someone replied by writing on the
tombstone:)
To follow you I'll not consent
Until I know which way you went.
Canuck
2006-02-10 23:43:58 UTC
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Excellent contribution, Donna. And very amusing. - Peter R. Whitmey
Donna Lantello
2006-02-11 05:38:04 UTC
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Post by Canuck
Excellent contribution, Donna. And very amusing. - Peter R. Whitmey
Thank you, Peter. I figure any post that comes close to being on topic, is
better than spam.

All the best,

Donna
Eric, Melanie & Cohen
2006-02-12 03:07:40 UTC
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it's been so quiet, I thought everyone was watching "the Book of Daniel"
Post by Donna Lantello
Post by Canuck
Excellent contribution, Donna. And very amusing. - Peter R. Whitmey
Thank you, Peter. I figure any post that comes close to being on topic,
is better than spam.
All the best,
Donna
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