Title: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: tikay on August 24, 2006, 02:19:03 PM en route to Brighton last weekend, Red & I babbled away, subjects ranged from Tractors to bridges, trees, health, animals, wheel nuts on lorries (fascinating one that), his home (which I had the pleasure of visiting for the first time - he lives in Paradise), & how big Chili's bum looked in those jeans.
Anyway, he asked me a purler. "What would you like your epitaph to read?". I'm still puzzling over that one. I came up with a handful of possibles for myself, but am still undecided. What would you like YOUR epitaph to say? And what epitaph would you propose for selected others? Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: matt674 on August 24, 2006, 02:20:22 PM thats something i'm leaving for my next of kin to decide (should i actually have one at the time!)
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: TightEnd on August 24, 2006, 02:29:06 PM "He knew everything except anything that was important" (Me)
for a n other " He was always 39 years old until the day he stopped being so" Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: bolt pp on August 24, 2006, 02:31:51 PM No disrespect or Anything but i couldn't care less, once I'm gone I'm gone and the people of my lifetime will remember me how they chose.
I know how my family and Friends will view me but if i dont do anything that gains me significant recognition then why should i care what people that dont know me think 100 years down the line. I dont know what my great great granddad done with hes life or if he was a good man and i wouldn't presume to believe that he was from reading a few words about him unless the memory of him was past down through my family, thats what i thinks important. I feel embarrassed whenever i read an epitaph and feel that the casual way in which i gaze upon a few words that are supposed to serve as a memory of someones life actually belittles the memory of that person. Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: Robert HM on August 24, 2006, 02:38:29 PM "he meant well"
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: AndrewT on August 24, 2006, 02:57:01 PM Here lies Tony Kendall
He thinks he's still alive Another misread Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: boldie on August 24, 2006, 03:03:52 PM Here lies an Atheist.
All dressed up and no place to go. Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: boldie on August 24, 2006, 03:10:32 PM Here lies an Atheist. All dressed up and no place to go. on a more serious note I like this one; 'To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: Tonji on August 24, 2006, 03:11:27 PM Spike Milligan's is "I told you I was ill"
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: Rod Paradise on August 24, 2006, 03:29:49 PM Ashes scattered on a hillside and a Rowan tree planted. That's do me nicely.
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: Swordpoker on August 24, 2006, 03:58:19 PM Press here for zombie action
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: Rod Paradise on August 24, 2006, 04:13:56 PM On a headstone in Montreal:
John Free your body and soul Unfold your powerful wings Climb the highest mountains Kick your feet up in the air You may now live forever Or return to this earth Unless you feel good where you are A bit contrived, until you read it again...... Free your body and soul Unfold your powerful wings Climb the highest mountains Kick your feet up in the air You may now live forever Or return to this earth Unless you feel good where you are Mr John Laird McCaffery gets a message for prosterity from his wife and his mistress. rotflmfao Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: yt on August 24, 2006, 04:30:23 PM I've always fancied building a pryamid. You know as big as one of the great pyramids in egypt.
It would be cool to leave something that significant behind. Like stonehenge maybe. I might need to become a millionaire first though. And it would say "Steve White Woz Ere" in honour of my Essex roots. :D Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: ericstoner on August 24, 2006, 04:49:25 PM I'd like to be buried under a horse chestnut tree..........Then my epitaph could read.
I came I saw I conquered. Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: thetank on August 24, 2006, 04:55:04 PM Yo Adrian.....that's a boys name hun.
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 24, 2006, 04:59:27 PM "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it."
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: ariston on August 24, 2006, 05:25:15 PM He came
He saw her He came again He died with a smile on his face Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: RED-DOG on August 24, 2006, 06:44:28 PM I would like mine to read 'He died from living too much'
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: Newmanseye on August 24, 2006, 07:10:38 PM "what did I miss?" That would be mine I hope, probably along with the father and husband guff that gets thrown in there as a filler.
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: The_nun on August 24, 2006, 07:16:35 PM After all these years i am still on my back
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: RED-DOG on August 24, 2006, 07:20:05 PM After all these years i am still on my back Or, 'She's a dead cert' Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: BigTomatoes on August 24, 2006, 07:23:11 PM i think its Walt Disneys which reads '' Thats All Folks ! '' Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: turny on August 24, 2006, 07:27:24 PM mine would say.................you guessed it...................."he was rubbish!" :D
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: Dingdell on August 24, 2006, 07:38:49 PM After all these years i am still on my back ;tightend; brilliant! Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: NEVES on August 24, 2006, 07:49:27 PM From the pool of life emerges a few great men. (bloody shame i never got to be on of "em") Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: NEVES on August 24, 2006, 07:52:22 PM doh ONE of "EM" Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: leighton_87 on August 24, 2006, 09:01:01 PM i think its Walt Disneys which reads '' Thats All Folks ! '' It's Mel Blanc who did the voices for the Warner Brothers Cartoons, like Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: Karabiner on August 24, 2006, 10:18:04 PM "Deal me out"
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: AndrewT on August 24, 2006, 10:51:48 PM "I'm going up to heaven as soon as it's my big blind"
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: RED-DOG on August 24, 2006, 10:53:18 PM Now, deal me my hole cards!
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: RED-DOG on August 24, 2006, 11:01:30 PM Never a spade when you need one!
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: RED-DOG on August 24, 2006, 11:10:46 PM tikay: I may be offline for a while, bear with me.
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: tikay on August 25, 2006, 12:44:29 AM tikay: I may be offline for a while, bear with me. I'll do it tomorrow, I promise. Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 25, 2006, 12:59:18 AM "I disagreed with AdamM about moving the short stack."
Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: The_nun on August 25, 2006, 10:19:41 AM Never a spade when you need one! That is good..Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: Simon Galloway2 on August 25, 2006, 10:54:22 AM I too liked Spike Milligan's one. I tried to Google one that I remember being in the paper years ago. Some guy was less than happy that his ex had been uber-unfaithful and still took him for every penny. Her epitaph, which I guess she didn't have much to do with, simply read "At last she sleeps alone."
And not an epitaph, but on similar lines, there was a nice one where some old nag had been promising to "dance on his grave" for the last 40 years of his life. His last will simply said "I wish to be buried at sea." Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: Rod Paradise on August 25, 2006, 11:45:11 AM Now, deal me my hole cards! Or simply "I've still got outs!" :D Title: Re: What would be your chosen Epitaph? Post by: NEVES on August 25, 2006, 03:27:06 PM I am drawing dead |