It's like a fu**ing graveyard round here....

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27 May 2014, 9:52 am

Who else remembers that childhood song about being dead?"The worms crawl in,the worms crawl out,they crawl in your bottom and out your mouth..."

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27 May 2014, 12:09 pm

Misslizard wrote:

Who else remembers that childhood song about being dead?"The worms crawl in,the worms crawl out,they crawl in your bottom and out your mouth..."

"Didya ever think when a hearse goes by
that one of these days, you're gonna die,
the worms crawl in,
the worms crawl out,
in yer stomach,
and out yer snout..."

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27 May 2014, 12:40 pm

TheBicyclingGuitarist wrote:

It was a cough that carried him off; it was a coffin they carried him off in. A dad was upset to see a hearse parked in front of his house. He says to his daughter "I told you not to date that guy from the funeral home." She says, "But dad this is a hearse of a different caller." She was only a mortician's daughter, but anyone cadaver.

haha

did you know british humorist Bernard breslaw composed a song called 'it's not the coughin' that carries you off but the coffin they carry you off in"? I have that in my demented music collection. :mrgreen:

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27 May 2014, 2:25 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

Which "here" are you refering to?

"Here" where you live.

Or "here" on WP?

Seems pretty lively to me here on WP.

Last night when I made the thread, it was pretty dead.

On here I meant.

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27 May 2014, 3:24 pm

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Who else remembers that childhood song about being dead?"The worms crawl in,the worms crawl out,they crawl in your bottom and out your mouth..."

I'm pretty sure coffins are placed inside a concrete-vault to keep the worms out. But maybe that wasn't the case whenever that dumb song was written. Burial sounds kinda old-fashioned either way though.

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27 May 2014, 4:34 pm

If you go into some of the older cemeteries sometimes the ground is kind of sunk in from where the wood coffin rotted,and when areas flood sometimes the air trapped in the coffin causes them to pop up.I think the cement vault is more expensive,I've never seen one at the local cemeteries.

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27 May 2014, 8:21 pm

An real old geezer I used to know would spit on the ground and say, when a hearse would drive by, "not in my family."

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27 May 2014, 8:23 pm

I wonder if he whistled past the graveyard?

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27 May 2014, 9:13 pm

Misslizard wrote:

It's a cement box slightly larger than the coffin that gets buried along with it. I didn't mean a tomb at ground level.

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27 May 2014, 9:25 pm

My Grandfather was a grave digger and when anyone was ready to be buried he used to knock on the coffin and ask them "Having a good sleep there"

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27 May 2014, 9:33 pm

if it were me I'd take a shovel and bang it on the coffin several times just to make sure they were dead dead in there.

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27 May 2014, 10:16 pm

It does seem dead here from time to time. The threads aren't moving as fast as they were in previous years.

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27 May 2014, 11:30 pm

Venger wrote:

Misslizard wrote:

It's a cement box slightly larger than the coffin that gets buried along with it. I didn't mean a tomb at ground level.

I've never seen those used here,my ex's Aunt had a steel vault over her's,but everyone sort of laughed about it,cause why go to that extra expense when you are dead,and what does it matter if a worm eats you?These are rural small cemeteries,maybe in larger urban cemeteries it's required to keep the grounds smooth to mow,you can't plant flowers around the head stones in them.In the little cemeteries people have all sorts of stuff planted and little statues and stuff.

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27 May 2014, 11:41 pm

An old saying for when you get a weird little chill is,"Someone's walking on your grave."

In the old cemetary near here someone put one of those little solar lights by one of the head stones,some people drove by and saw it glowing at night and it scared the s**t out of them
They had no idea it was a light and told everyone they say a spook,the people that put the light there heard about it and got a hoot out of it.Now they are all over the cemeteries here.

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27 May 2014, 11:51 pm

Aprilviolets wrote:

My Grandfather was a grave digger and when anyone was ready to be buried he used to knock on the coffin and ask them "Having a good sleep there"

That's kinda heartwarming, in a weird sort of way.

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27 May 2014, 11:52 pm

Misslizard wrote:

In the old cemetary near here someone put one of those little solar lights by one of the head stones,some people drove by and saw it glowing at night and it scared the sh** out of them Razz
They had no idea it was a light and told everyone they say a spook,the people that put the light there heard about it and got a hoot out of it.Now they are all over the cemeteries here.

copycats. if they were more creative one or more might have put little motion-activated speakers hidden behind a shrub saying things like "stop walking on top of me!" and "YOU'RE NEXT!" and such.

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