what do you want on your tombstone?

woodnymph_O

Literotica Guru
Joined
Nov 18, 2004
Posts
976
the comercial says, but it gets me to thinking
here are a few I found this morning
In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery:
Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up
And no place to go.

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:
Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann.
Dec. 8, 1767

In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery:
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 Daniel's 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 - Age 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. Danforth's
Non-Explosive Burning Fluid"

Oops! Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York:
Born 1903--Died 1942
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car
was on the way down.
It was.

I'm gonna have to work on mine if I wanna make the list :p
Nymphy
 
Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite.

Any Spike Milligan fans. Or Irish Gaelic speakers? Never mind.

Here lies The "Of course it's not loaded" Earl

The Earl
 
woodnymph_O said:
In a Georgia cemetery:
"I told you I was sick!"

Nymphy: I'm afraid the list you have is bogus. At least this entry is. There is no tombstone in Georgia bearing this legend, mainly because it was a precedent when this epitaph was allowed in England only a few years back.

The Earl
 
A few weeks after my dad's funeral, my mom was given a brochure to pick out a stone for his grave. It had a page of suggested epitaphs that actually gave us a few laughs. I liked these two, for a man and woman buried side-by-side:

"He was a font of all the virtues."

"She has fallen by the wayside."

I don't think I get a tombstone if I'm cremated and added to a vial of oil at George Clooney's massage therapist's, but if I do get a stone I'd like it to say,

"Billionaire Philanthropist and World Traveler"

woodnymph_O said:
the comercial says, but it gets me to thinking
here are a few I found this morning
In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery:
Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up
And no place to go.

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:
Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann.
Dec. 8, 1767

In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery:
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 Daniel's 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 - Age 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. Danforth's
Non-Explosive Burning Fluid"

Oops! Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York:
Born 1903--Died 1942
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car
was on the way down.
It was.

I'm gonna have to work on mine if I wanna make the list :p
Nymphy
 
True or not

they are stil worth a laugh.
stil makes me wonder though what I'd want mine to say if I had the choice.

here lies Nymphy
Missed by those that dug her
But if you dig her now
You will be shot

:p
Nymphy
 
Re: Re: what do you want on your tombstone?

TheEarl said:
Nymphy: I'm afraid the list you have is bogus. At least this entry is. There is no tombstone in Georgia bearing this legend, mainly because it was a precedent when this epitaph was allowed in England only a few years back.

The Earl

Maybe in England, but it has been used at least a few times here in the states. I know of one in my area (sortof), an old fisherman used it on his tombstone in the late 1800's on Nantucket (I think).

Also:

"I told you I was sick."
Erma Bombeck, on her tombstone
US author & humorist (1927 - 1996)
 
"Hey you guys........Colly was right....its hotter than steak on a barbeque down here........but hell....its fun. I reserved you all a place."
 
Ronnie Scott, the heavy smoking, drinking jazz saxophonist interviewed shortly before his death, on being asked if he believed in reincarnation:

"With my luck, I'll probably come back as a fucking sax player."
 
I have been considering the one that W.C. Fields supposedly used (but did not.)

"On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia."
 
Johnny Carson's : Here's Johnny

Arnold Swartenegger : I'll be back.

Sally Field : They really, really like me here.

Edgar Allen Poe : Scratch, scratch, scratch. Anyone there?
 
Tatelou said:
"You can't keep a good slut down...

Oh yes you can!"
I'd have thought you would have worked in twat.

"Here lies a Twat, you stupid twit."
 
I actually liked the one from Friends:

"Phoebe Buffet - Buried Alive."

Mine'll have a poem from Elsie I think.

The Earl
 
My favorite quote from the other side. Lester Burnham's post-death soliloquy at the end of American Beauty:

"I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life."


:rose:
 
Back
Top