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Hopefully this is only meant as fun...as I am in no hurry to choose my inscription yet!! ::)
Any ideas what you would have chizzled into the marble?
...." But I hadn't finished..." ;D
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yea!
i would have full name and/or any other names i was known as
correct date of birth and death,age and where it happened
all the places i have lived and worked
spouse and children's names
parents,G parents GG parents etc etc :)
including marriage dates and all page and volume numbers for all above mentioned ;D would be a very big tombstone but at least it would save somone some very time consuming hard work ;D
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Actually redspookhunter...I would also love a really busy tombstone,because I would want to leave as much info behind as possible. I have always found myself looking through old grave yards and find myself wishing that more had been said about the people buried there.Like you though I think I would have to end up with something the size of the great wall of china to write it all on!!! ::)
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Here ya go......you can at least make it look authentic now....have fun.... ;D ;D ;D..
http://www.jjchandler.com/tombstone/download.php
Michael72.
Just a demo:-
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I wish I'd thought of Spike Milligan's - I told you I was ill.
Cheers Dave
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Michael 72....boy was that creepy ;D :-X...but fun in an odd sort of way...freaked my 16 year old a bit,as typically he caught me out playing :D
davier.....Spikes one liner was fantastic...did he actually have this on his when the time came I wonder? ;)
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Dawn, Spike Milligan's tombstone does include "I told you I was ill" but it has been translated into Gaelic.
Sounds like it took a while to get the family to agree and get it approved :)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3742443.stm
Sula
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Sula thank's for the update.
I saw a documentary on his life through the eyes of one of his daughters a while back.What an incredible man....and a very interesting daughter.At the time she was trying to get a lot of his personal things back from his wife who had just sold the family home.It was sad because the daughter and her other siblings had gone to the garage of the house to pick up things that were Spikes,that had seemingly been dumped in the garage.Of course there are always two sides to every story.
Back to the threqd though...and I wonder how many graves across the world will have the "I told you I was ill" ? ;D
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Actually redspookhunter...I would also love a really busy tombstone,because I would want to leave as much info behind as possible. I have always found myself looking through old grave yards and find myself wishing that more had been said about the people buried there.Like you though I think I would have to end up with something the size of the great wall of china to write it all on!!! ::)
Exactly the same......lots and lots of information so future genealogists will know everything about me ;D
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Cost an awful lot of money for a headstone if you decied to be buried at sea. ;D ;D
Pete, :)
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although that one liner was accredited to spike, i acctualy read that in a book of headstones many years before his death, point of interest he also used to dig victorian tips and collect clay pipes that he dug up, i spent many a happy time with him doing the same, kali.
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"While you are reading this - you are treading on my head - Gerroff!!!!!!!" ;D
subee x
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Like that one subee...made me laugh.
Theres one in my local graveyard of teh old man we used to know next door that he penned himself.
" I'd rather be up there with you ...than down here with me!"
Kali :) I would have loved to have dug up old clay pipes or glass bottles...one day perhaps. You are very lucky to have shared this with him :-*
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very lucky, he was a very clever & sincere man but no different of stage to when he was on stage, kali.
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I do not intend to get myself into that position.
Gadget
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The mind boggles Gadget, I'm not sure which position you're not going to get yourself into!!! :o
Barbara 8)
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Flat out in a shroud in a coffin with my hands crossed and stuff - seen that. NO LIKE :(
But if you really must - 'She tried to understand' ???
Gadget
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Certainly not what is on gggrandmother's tombstone - "She hath done what she could"!!! Talk about damning with faint praise! And not at all appropriate for the formidable woman that she was!
I like "She did it her way."
MarieC
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Mine will probably have - 'She came, she saw, wrote it all down and promptly forgot where she put it!!'
Barbara 8)
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Barbara, shall we have twin tombs as I think that one would go well on mine ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
Or perhaps,
'She came, she saw, wrote it all down and then put it in a safe place but promptly forgot where the safe place was!!'
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My parents were both cremated and we have a joint plaque for them. We were restricted on the number of letters in each row and the number of rows. so all they have are names and year of death not much joy for future generations to see. I've not made my mind up if i want to be buried or cremated but hope that a C.D that lasts that can be placed instead of a plaque that contains all my family history for others to access when required.
Regards the still living
panda
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i lifetime cutting down daisies and now eternity pushing them up
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i lifetime cutting down daisies and now eternity pushing them up
LOL - very very clever
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Has anyone seen where they placed Barbara? ;D
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Thank you J.J. I like that :) :) :) :)
I might just have: I spent 80% of my life getting rid of dust and now they've buried me in it . . .. . where's the justice?? :-\
Barbara 8)
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Cute, Barbara...did you make that up?...
Glad you liked the cartoon...Probably could have thought up a funnier caption but was rushed...
Don't have a tombstone request in mind...but...want something like....below...
Used to work with a gal who went to the funeral of everyone who knew someone she knew..."I went to school with the aunt of that person!"...in order to get the afternoon off... :P J.J.
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I just looked at the thread...again and hope that everyone realizes that the reminder string is on the INDEX FINGER...
At first glance it may look rather rude...although I know a few people who would like the symbolic flipped a bird look for their farewell message ;D J.J.