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Old 08-03-2006, 12:59 PM
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The ultmate question - if you died what would you like on your gravestone?

this is one of those questions that has been probably avoided by one and all. it is not meant to be an arguement or debate, just simply what would you like to have on your tombstone!

i like Spike Milligan's "see I told you I was sick"
and a few months ago when Mike got his 350D he did a bit of grave photography, sometimes the graveyard can provide some humour

For me I think it would be "now I can spend some quality time observing" or "could you move to the left your spoiling the view"

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Old 08-03-2006, 01:23 PM
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<my name=""></my><small>Blown upward </small>
<small>out of sight:</small>
<small>He sought the leak </small>
<small>by candlelight</small>


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Old 08-03-2006, 01:32 PM
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was that a local gravestone vermin?
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Old 08-03-2006, 01:39 PM
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"he died aged 211"
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Old 08-03-2006, 01:46 PM
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hehe - when I saw your thread title Houghy I thought of the spike milligan one - then viewed and there it was LOl - that is a classic tho

couple of other classics would be
for the feisty even in death .. "What are You Looking at?
take a picture it lasts longer"

and the party animal classic
"came here for a good time,
not for a long time"
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Old 08-03-2006, 01:56 PM
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"he died aged 211"
he died aged 211, drunk and in a harem.
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Old 08-03-2006, 03:43 PM
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what would i like on my tombstone?????

little stories and pictures from my great grandkids of things happening in space. I intend to corrupt them all with a love of the sky!
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Old 08-03-2006, 04:52 PM
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was that a local gravestone vermin?
Nope somewhere in the US if my memory serves me correctly.

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"he died aged 211"
Scratched underneath: only the good die young
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Old 08-03-2006, 06:32 PM
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Lived like a King
Died like a pauper,
The Bank got ZIP!



but talking about graves, back in South Africa, in fact cape Town is a funeral directors called "Human & Pitt" classic if ever there was one..
see add here : www.yellowpages.co.za and enter Human and Pitt
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Old 08-03-2006, 06:50 PM
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I got taken to the microsoft site with that one Ziggy...

I thought of what you looking at,take a pic it lasts longer, but someone had already beaten me to it. Great minds think alike.

So if I were to have anything on my grave stone it wo.......................
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I would either have

I am wake
The Swan is flying
Gold against blue
An Arrow is lying.
There is hunting in heaven
I Sleep safe until tomorrow.

The moon belongs to me
The best things in life were free,
The stars belong to me,
They are there for me to see
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Old 09-03-2006, 07:41 AM
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I thought about it a bit and came up with the simplest thing I could think of.
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Old 09-03-2006, 07:46 AM
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I thought about it a bit and came up with the simplest thing I could think of.

Brilliant! so do we just wait for the truck to come around and pick you up mate
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Old 09-03-2006, 08:40 AM
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You can get cardboard coffins you know!
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Are they old scope sonotubes?
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