This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_904743538_boundary Content-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi you all, I enjoyed the enclosed humor. Hope you do too. Love, Arlene ([log in to unmask]) --part0_904743538_boundary Content-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> Received: from rly-ya05.mx.aol.com (rly-ya05.mail.aol.com [172.18.144.197]) by air-ya05.mx.aol.com (v49.1) with SMTP; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:21:09 -0400 Received: from mail2.fw-bc.sony.com (mail2.fw-bc.sony.com [198.83.177.13]) by rly-ya05.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id LAA20761; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:21:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail1.nhq.in.sel.sony.com (mail1.nhq.in.sel.sony.com [43.144.86.11]) by mail2.fw-bc.sony.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA21378; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 08:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail1.nhq.in.sel.sony.com id HAA29833; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 07:53:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ccMail by ticegw.mail.sel.sony.com (IMA Internet Exchange 2.12 Enterprise) id 0004EE1A; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:42:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:43:04 -0400 Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> From: [log in to unmask] (Margaret Bezares) Subject: FW: Epitaphs To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] (Mike Celuch), [log in to unmask] (Eric Cinque), [log in to unmask] (Naruki Iwahara), [log in to unmask] (BURGER LES), [log in to unmask] (Nancy Carver), [log in to unmask] (Herb Chin), [log in to unmask] (Kathy Demitriou), [log in to unmask] (Mike DeRosa), [log in to unmask] (Carolyn Diefenbach), [log in to unmask] (Thomas Lind), [log in to unmask] (Janet LoSasso), [log in to unmask] (Jose Luis Ramos), [log in to unmask] (Icis Reid), [log in to unmask] (Barbara Sanchez) Content-Description: cc:Mail note part Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > > > Epitaphs from real tombstones: > > > > On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova > Scotia: > > Here lies > > Ezekial Aikle > > Age 102 > > The Good > > Die Young. > > > > In a London, England cemetery: > > Ann Mann > > Here lies Ann Mann, > > Who lived an old maid > > But died an old Mann. > > Dec. 8, 1767 > > > > 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. > > > > Playing with names in a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery: > > Here lies > > Johnny Yeast > > Pardon me > > For not rising. > > > > Memory of an accident in a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery: > > Here lies the body > > of Jonathan Blake > > Stepped on the gas > > Instead of the brake. > > > > In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery: > > Here lays Butch, > > We planted him raw. > > He was quick on the trigger, > > But slow on the draw. > > > > A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery: > > Sacred to the memory of > > my husband John Barnes > > who died January 3, 1803 > > His comely young widow, aged 23, has > > many qualifications of a good wife, and > > yearns to be comforted. > > > > A lawyer's epitaph in England: > > Sir John Strange > > Here lies an honest lawyer, > > And that is Strange. > > > > Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont: > > I was somebody. > > Who, is no business > > Of yours. > > > > Lester Moore was a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent for Naco, Arizona > > in the cowboy days of the 1880's. He's buried in the Boot Hill > > Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: > > Here lies Lester Moore > > Four slugs from a .44 > > No Les No More. > > > > In a Georgia cemetery: > > "I told you I was sick!" > > > > John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery: > > Reader if cash thou art > > In want of any > > Dig 4 feet deep > > And thou wilt find a Penny. > > > > On Margaret Daniels grave at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia: > > She always said her feet were killing her > > but nobody believed her. > > > > In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England: > > On the 22nd of June > > - Jonathan Fiddle - > > Went out of tune. > > > > Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont has an epitaph > > that sounds like something from a Three Stooges movie: > > 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. > > > > More fun with names with Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England: > > Gone away > > Owin' more > > Than he could pay. > > > > Someone in Winslow, Maine didn't like Mr. Wood: > > In Memory of Beza Wood > > Departed this life > > Nov. 2, 1837 > > Aged 45 yrs. > > Here lies one Wood > > Enclosed in wood > > One Wood > > Within another. > > The outer wood > > Is very good: > > We cannot praise > > The other. > > > > On a grave from the 1880's 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. > > > > The grave of Ellen Shannon in Girard, Pennsylvania is almost a > > consumer tip: > > Who was fatally burned > > March 21, 1870 > > by the explosion of a lamp > > filled with "R.E. 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