OT Grave Humour

[UK_Widowmaker 571]

Just got these in email...thought I would share

[Olham 164]

Oh Lord, mankind was perhaps your funniest creation.

[FastCargo 412]

Yes, this is a real gravestone:

 

 

If you're having trouble seeing it, put the first letter of each line into a sentence.

 

FC

Edited October 3, 2009 by FastCargo

[Bullethead 12]

I saw one in the UK somewhere for a baby who lived just long enough to be named. I forget his 1st name, but his surname was Longbottom. The funny thing about his epitaph (if anything about dead babies can be funny), was a pun mostly in Latin:

Arse longa, vita brevis. Get it?

 

My favorite epitaph, however, comes from a book of old epitaphs. I always wanted it for my own tombstone, but now that Ted Kennedy's FINALLY dead, I'll let him have it. He deserves it more than me (said with a mixture of scorn and grudging admiration). I think the original was from the early 1700s:

 

If Heaven be pleased when sinners cease to sin

If Hell be pleased when sinners enter in

If Earth be pleased at riddance of a knave

Then all are pleased, for (name) is in his grave

Edited October 3, 2009 by Bullethead

[Olham 164]

As far as I know you by now, I always thought, an artillery crater would suit you (Lol!)

[Flyby PC 23]

I like Spike Milligan's epitaph.

 

"Told you I was ill".

[JimAttrill 24]

I like Spike Milligan's epitaph.

 

"Told you I was ill".

 

In Irish (Erse). Some people did not like the sentiment in English, so it was sort-of disguised. Or maybe he wanted it that way.