R.I.P. .... but with a smile !

[jim1]

I Know WC Field's says"It's better than playing Philadelphia"
Who's is it that says "I told you I was ill"
                                 Jim

[Paul]

I Know WC Field's says"It's better than playing Philadelphia"
Who's is it that says "I told you I was ill"
                                 Jim

It was Spike Milligan.

[7igerby7he7ail]

Actually Spike's gravestone reads 'Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite", which is Irish Gaelic for 'I told you I was ill' so as to comply with the diocese rules where he is buried

[trish251]

I recently refound a little book I have had for many years by H L Lee - subtitled An anthology of wit and wisdom Despite having nothing to do with epitaphs I would like to include the following, as I think it describes some of the villages of our ancestors (and my childhood)

... One of those far-away friendly villages where you chat for 5 minutes on the phone after getting  a wrong number.

Back to epitaphs

He ploughed a straight furrow - Yorkshire for a farm labourer

Here lies the mother of children seven
four on earth and three in heaven
the three in heaven preferring rather
to die with mother than live with father -  Birmingham

An upright, downright honest man - Ripon Cathedral

Having read the inscriptions
Upon the tombstones
Wang Peng advised the emperor
to kill all the living
and resurrect the dead -  Paul Eldridge

Trish

[Paul]

Actually Spike's gravestone reads 'Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite", which is Irish Gaelic for 'I told you I was ill' so as to comply with the diocese rules where he is buried

'Cliste Toin' , which is Irish Gaelic for 'Smart Arse'

[7igerby7he7ail]

Gorabhatha guit

[Tony Payne]

Beneath this stone lies Murphy
They buried him today
He lived the life of Riley
While Riley was away


So many funny people gone...
Stanley Unwin was one of a kind, truly unique.
As was Spike Milligan - quite insane but he could.
And Dave Allen - I could listen to him for hours...

[Paul]

Stanley Unwin. Easier to understand than any politician and spoke a lot more sense.

Paul.

[suzard]

"Here lies Ann Mann
Who lived an old maid
And died an old Mann"
1767

Epitaph of the gravedigger of Kingsbridge

"Here I lie at the chapel door
Here I lie because I'm poor
The farther in the more you pay
Here I lie as warm as they"

..and a genealogist's nightmare

"I was somebody
Who is no business of yours"