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  • #611992

    wakeflood
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    OK, so a little twist in the same vein as the quote list to keep it rolling.

    This time, favorite eptiaphs. There’s been some great ones. Some serious, some humorous, some just plain strange. I’ll start with a funny one from Spike Milligan that most of you already know:

    “I told you I was ill.”

    And we’re off…

    #810944

    Pibal
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    “Here lies Lester Moore. Four slugs from a forty-four.

    No Les No More.” – Tombstone, Arizona

    “I’d rather be here than Texas.” – Colorado

    “Here lies an atheist. All dressed up and nowhere to go.” – Maryland

    “I may be gone but Rock and Roll lives on.” – John Belushi

    #810945

    metrognome
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    I am still learning – Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (except I’m pretty sure he said it in Italian.)

    #810946

    wakeflood
    Participant

    Excellent, Mgnome. I wonder if he had a nickname, we’d think of him differently? Like, say, Micky? Eh Micky, nice statue there with the thing and the stuff.

    #810947

    wakeflood
    Participant

    And Pibal, I’m not sure if that Belushi one is apocryphal? I thought I’d seen one way back that said something like, “I may be gone but Rock and Roll lives on!”, or something to that effect. Maybe not.

    #810948

    wakeflood
    Participant

    Oh, and while I think of it, feel free to add what you would enjoy on yours oh so many, many years from now.

    #810949

    seaopgal
    Participant

    Ha Ha, Pibal: “… all dressed up and no where to go.”

    No tombstone for me (although I love cemeteries) as I intend to go into the ground au naturel. But here is my epitaph: “Seasons change with the scenery, weaving time in a tapestry. Won’t you stop and remember me at any convenient time?” (Simon & Garfunkel)

    #810950

    metrognome
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    “Don’t call me Micky!!!” – Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (except I’m pretty sure he said it in Italian with emphatic hand gestures.)

    “Th-th-that’s all folks!” – Mel Blanc

    “Curiosity didn’t kill this cat” – Studs Terkel

    “I told you so, you damned fools.” – H. G. Wells

    “Rosebud” – Citizen Kane

    “A Benny shaved is a Benny urned.” – some guy named Benny who dropped dead after visiting the barber.

    (for details: http://www.punoftheday.com/cgi-bin/punjoke.pl?number=15)

    “Only the good die young.” – Billy Joel (ok, he’s not dead yet)

    “You may be right,

    I may be crazy,

    But I just may be

    The lunatic

    You’re looking for”

    to be engraved on my urn. ‘Disco Inferno’ will be playing during my cremation. Not sure what was playing during my creation. Ever notice that ‘m’ is the only thing that separates our beginning from our end? (yes, I edited this an hour after I posted this.)

    #810951

    Pibal
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    Wakeflood, you’re right. I was able to still edit my post so it’s corrected now. The apocryphal version “He could have given us a few more laughs but noooooo” does crack me up though.

    #810952

    wakeflood
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    Hey, have you ever seen the skit Belushi did where he’s walking through a graveyard in the snow and talking about how all the other cast members died before him? The reason he outlived them? “I was a dancer!”

    Talk about irony…

    #810953

    JanS
    Participant

    John Yeast: “Here lies Johnny Yeast. Pardon me for not rising.”

    #810954

    JanS
    Participant

    Dee Dee Ramone: “OK…I gotta go now.”

    #810955

    miws
    Participant

    My own (hopefully):

    Here Lies miws

    Even Tho’ His Health Was a Bit of a Mess

    He Was Able to Keep From Becoming Dead

    for Oh So Many, Many Years After Wakeflood Posted His Forum Thread.

    #810956

    JanS
    Participant

    can we get a group rate on that, miws?

    #810957

    miws
    Participant

    Don’t see why not…. ;-)

    Mike

    #810958

    wakeflood
    Participant

    Mike, Jan, you guys know that only the good die young. Billy said so. Which suggests you’ll both be around a long, long time. ;-)

    #810959

    miws
    Participant

    Well, in that case:

    Here in This Hole Lies miws

    and What Some May Find Rather Nifty

    is That By the Time He Moved to This Current Address

    He’d Reached the Ripe Ol’ Age of One Hundred and Fifty

    Mike

    #810960

    wakeflood
    Participant

    Ha! Outstanding.

    #810961

    waynster
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    #810962

    metrognome
    Participant

    ‘I don’t do horror pictures, nor would I take my clothes off. Seriously, I’m simply not an exhibitionist.’ Rest In Peace James Garner. Thanks for the laughs and your inimitable sense of style. Billy was wrong in this case; sometimes to good ones live a long life.

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-garner-rockford-files-maverick-dies-442238

    #810963

    miws
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    #810964

    FionaEnzo
    Participant

    Not sure if Marlene Dietrich said this herself or in a film or if my friends and I just added her accent to this line we often repeated to each other, “I go home and look at ze four walls and know … I must go out again … into the night!”

    #810965

    waynster
    Participant

    oh and selfies not good sometimes……lol

    http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2013/09/26#.U83CLrFx6sY

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