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http://hurricane.wxv.net/~sm/img/Harv_Was_There.jpg

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 3 August 2003 06:33 (twenty-three years ago)

satchel paige's
http://www.findagrave.com/photos/101c/222/paige2.jpg

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 3 August 2003 06:34 (twenty-three years ago)

WOW!!

Best thread ever!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 3 August 2003 06:38 (twenty-three years ago)

http://thebrgs.homestead.com/files/Jon_Fu_2.jpg

― Dada, Sunday, 3 August 2003 06:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Best thre...oh.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 3 August 2003 06:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to take a shortcut to school every morning via St Mary’s Churchyard in the centre of Cheltenham, and was always amused by this gravestone :

To the memory of John Higgs, died 1825.

Here lies John Higgs,
A famous man for killing pigs,
For killing pigs was his delight
Both morning, afternoon and night
Both heats and cold he did endure,
Which no physician could e’er cure;
His knife is laid, his work is done,
I hope to heaven his soul is gone

The picture isn’t very clear – the tombstone is really crumbling away now.

http://www.stmaryschelt.org.uk/pictures/higgs_grave.jpg

― C J (C J), Sunday, 3 August 2003 06:53 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.unwind.com/jokes-funnies/media-mania/used%20tombstone.jpg

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Sunday, 3 August 2003 07:02 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.gravesights.org/images/funny%20tombstone08.jpg

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 3 August 2003 07:10 (twenty-three years ago)

nothing beats harv though

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 3 August 2003 07:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but who is Harv anyway? Just some guy?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 3 August 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but who is Harv anyway? Just some guy?

Not just "some guy", Ned, but a guy WHO WAS THERE!!

Although, you know, I am looking askance at the Rick Springfield and Loverboy mentions. *shakes head*

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 3 August 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"The social ramble ain't restful."

― Asymmetric Cocktails (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 3 August 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The saddest tombstone I ever saw was in a cemetery in Kansas City, MO, old and forgotten, lots of graves from 1800-1950. The tombstone had an oval inset with a picture of woman dressed a la 1919 (a picture of her in younger days most likely) and the death date was during the Great Depression, around 1930-something.
it had only one word on the tombstone besides the date:

MOMMA

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 3 August 2003 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

The saddest one I have seen is a tiny headstone marking the grave of a week old baby, in the cemetery in Cheltenham. It just has that one line from Yeats on it :

"Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams"

It makes me want to cry every time I see it.

Cheltenham cemetery, incidentally, is where Brian Jones is buried (he has a very unassuming headstone, and his grave always looks rather neglected which is a shame)

― C J (C J), Sunday, 3 August 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't remember a particular one but I think NUnhead cemetery has some dramatic ones.

― hebe cat (hebe), Sunday, 3 August 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to post the one Dada put up. It's in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetary on Mount Royal.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 3 August 2003 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.notofthisworld.nu/notwgravehumor/feet.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 3 August 2003 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~wwc2r/enlt226/plachaise1.jpg

Wilde's grave. It's surprisingly beautiful and gripping when you see it directly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 3 August 2003 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

"Here lies Lester Moore
four slugs from a .44
No Les, no more"

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 4 August 2003 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

http://southsidecallbox.com/images/johnbrown.jpg

― Asymmetric Cocktails (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"Here lies Lester Moore
four slugs from a .44
No Les, no more"

There's been some speculation that that one's fake, BTW.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

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