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Re: R.I.P. .... but with a smile !
« Reply #45 on: Monday 22 October 07 19:00 BST (UK) »
I spend quite a lot of time on my computer, but I don't think I'd want one on my grave.  ;D


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Re: R.I.P. .... but with a smile !
« Reply #46 on: Monday 22 October 07 19:18 BST (UK) »
Do you think someone was being funny?

Makes you wonder when they were ever together with two hobbies like that - maybe someone getting a dig in you think?

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Re: R.I.P. .... but with a smile !
« Reply #47 on: Monday 22 October 07 19:23 BST (UK) »
Elsie hasn't got a date of death so maybe she's still alive.

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Re: R.I.P. .... but with a smile !
« Reply #48 on: Saturday 27 October 07 14:05 BST (UK) »
 My favorite epitaph
'I told you I was sick'
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Re: R.I.P. .... but with a smile !
« Reply #49 on: Saturday 27 October 07 22:25 BST (UK) »
Wasn't that Spike Milligan ?
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Re: R.I.P. .... but with a smile !
« Reply #50 on: Saturday 27 October 07 22:26 BST (UK) »
Wasn't that Spike Milligan ?

Lydart - I think he'd probably like that one as well  :D
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« Reply #51 on: Saturday 27 October 07 22:28 BST (UK) »
Just found this on Wiki ...

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Milligan died from liver disease, at the age of 83, on 27 February 2002, at his home in Rye, East Sussex. He had once quipped that he wanted his headstone to bear the words "I told you I was ill." He was buried at St Thomas's Church cemetery in Winchelsea, East Sussex, but the Chichester Diocese refused to allow this epitaph. A compromise was reached with the Irish language translation, "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite", and additionally in English, "Love, light, peace".

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Re: R.I.P. .... but with a smile !
« Reply #52 on: Saturday 27 October 07 23:46 BST (UK) »
Just found this on Wiki ...

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Milligan died from liver disease, at the age of 83, on 27 February 2002, at his home in Rye, East Sussex. He had once quipped that he wanted his headstone to bear the words "I told you I was ill." He was buried at St Thomas's Church cemetery in Winchelsea, East Sussex, but the Chichester Diocese refused to allow this epitaph. A compromise was reached with the Irish language translation, "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite", and additionally in English, "Love, light, peace".



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Re: R.I.P. .... but with a smile !
« Reply #53 on: Sunday 28 October 07 00:51 BST (UK) »
I had another query on here about a Church on the Yorkshire Moors near Ravensgill (holidaying there with Bradford friends in the '70's) which had a lot of hilarious epitaphs. 
 I had a cine camera and spent some time recording the graves. Of course "s-d's" law , the tape was never returned from Kodak!!
The only link I have is that The Mouseman ( Robert Thompson of Kilburn)had carved his signature mouse into the new pews.
Wonder if there is anyone who knows the church and can record the inscriptions on graves.?

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