Re: TOMBSTONE Generator (on-line version, only)

[Elaine Parrish]

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Rob Petrie wrote:

> x-no-archive: yes
>
> http://www.worldalmanac.com/200505%20WAE-Newsletter.html
>
> The World Almanac E-Newsletter
>
> Volume 05, Number 05 - May 2005
>
> ---
>
> The Original TOMBSTONE Generator
> <don't accept any substitutes>
>
> Step right up here, folks, and design your own (up to 5 lines) Tombstone
> epitaph in this ingenious on-line 'Tombstone Generator'!
> Not to be missed by anybody <least of all those on this ng>. [*]
>
> What's on YOUR tombstone?
>
> http://tombstone.dogcrap.net/create.php
> (Over 374,061 People Created Over 577,722,579,776 Tombstones So Far!)
>
> Copyright © DogCrap.net
>
>
>
>
> [*] My first go at it produced this 5-line gem:
>
> "He Hated Socialists
> and Communists
> and Dictators
> and Tyrants
> and War-Mongers"
>
> <g>

There is a very old tombstone in Missouri where I do some genealogy that
says:
As you are now, I once was,
As I am now, you soon shall be,
prepare for death,and follow me.

It is really strange to stand in the graveyard and read that.

Elaine

(BTW, Jack La Lanne's wife is Elaine LaLanne. Life could always be worse.)

[J.D. Baldwin]

In the previous article, Rob Petrie <r@attnet> wrote:
> http://tombstone.dogcrap.net/create.php
> (Over 374,061 People Created Over 577,722,579,776 Tombstones
> So Far!)

Let's say it takes a minimum of ten seconds to create a tombstone.
That would mean that on *average*, these nearly-375,000 people spent
4290 hours -- nearly six months -- doing nothing but creating these
"tombstones."

I am skeptical of these figures.
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