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What Does This Gravestone Mean?  
User currently offlineTransactoid From Canada, joined Mar 2001, 788 posts, RR: 0
Posted (10 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 1224 times:

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I was fascinated by this tombstone immediately upon seeing it. I'd love to know what the inscription means.

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User currently offlinePROSA From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 5440 posts, RR: 5
Reply 1, posted (10 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 1210 times:

Gotta admit, I can't figure it out at all.

When it comes to tombstone inscriptions, my favorite, often seen in New England cemeteries from the 1700's, is

Behold my friend as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now soon you will be
So prepare for death and follow me


"Let me think about it" = the coward's way of saying "no"
User currently offlineTransactoid From Canada, joined Mar 2001, 788 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (10 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 1204 times:

I hate to sound macarbe, but I really love dark, morbid inscriptions. They're strangely...poetic.

User currently offlineJetService From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 4798 posts, RR: 13
Reply 3, posted (10 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 1198 times:

It means she underwent surgery to remove water from her body (probably a wicked edema), and was tapped (tap'd) 66 times in 67 months totally 240 gallons. Apparently, she never bitched about it, nor feared it. The tombstone belongs to a woman named Mary Page.


"Shaddap you!"
User currently offline707cmf From France, joined Mar 2002, 4885 posts, RR: 32
Reply 4, posted (10 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 1153 times:

One of the funniest grave stones I've seen is the one of one of my great-grand uncles : "Here lays xxxxxx, born 1870, died 1930, along with his daughters, yyyyyyy, born 1880, died......"

the first time I saw it, I was "boy, something is wrong with that one, but I cannot figure it out properly  Laugh out loud

User currently offlineDripstick From Canada, joined Dec 2001, 2364 posts, RR: 23
Reply 5, posted (10 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 1122 times:






What's another word for thesaurus?
User currently offlineTransactoid From Canada, joined Mar 2001, 788 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (10 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 1094 times:

Hmmm, someone else exploring that site?  Smile
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