Friday, May 21, 2010

Funny Saying on Headstone

Born 1903--Died 1942.
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the
car was on the way down. It was.

Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls,Vermont:
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.


On a grave from the 1880s 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


In a cemetery in England:
Remember man, as you walk by,
As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so shall you be.
Remember this and follow me.
To which someone replied by writing
on the tombstone:
To follow you I'll not consent...
Until I know which way you went.

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