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What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:06 pm
by globus
Mine.
Once I thought I was wrong, I thought I was wrong.
But I was mistaken.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:12 pm
by backrow
if you had your way, I'd have
Spoiler: show
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Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:19 pm
by Last Line
Going Underground

The Jam

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:23 pm
by Wilson's Toffee
Gone Fishing.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:24 pm
by Mr Mike
I’m fine

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:24 pm
by globus
Wilson's Toffee wrote:Gone Fishing.
I get your angle.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:27 pm
by Witchfinder General
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Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:32 pm
by backrow
actually, FHHD would suffice

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:34 pm
by Plato'sCave
Promised so much, delivered so little

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:34 pm
by Toulon's Not Toulouse
Nothing, I'll go for incineration.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:42 pm
by Wilson's Toffee
globus wrote:
Wilson's Toffee wrote:Gone Fishing.
I get your angle.

I am hooked, man.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:43 pm
by Wilson's Toffee
Toulon's Not Toulouse wrote:Nothing, I'll go for incineration.

"Gone, like a breath of air"

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:43 pm
by Working Class Rugger
Toulon's Not Toulouse wrote:Nothing, I'll go for incineration.
Same but donating my body to science before the oven.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:43 pm
by Nieghorn
Toulon's Not Toulouse wrote:Nothing, I'll go for incineration.
I notice they have little boxes for ashes within a larger structure (columbarium?). Not even that?


My grandmother was talking funerals the other day and said cremation costs $8000 ... :shock:

Can’t I just be burned in my canoe on a river for free?

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:53 pm
by feckwanker
It cost's how much per lett

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:56 pm
by julian
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:56 pm
by globus
Working Class Rugger wrote:
Toulon's Not Toulouse wrote:Nothing, I'll go for incineration.
Same but donating my body to science before the oven.
I'd do the same but most of my organs would be rejected.

We are running out of cemetery space here. I shall not be aware of my time in a burner, and I'm not too worried about that.

But it would be nice to put a bit of humour up for those who visit.

They are burying folk vertically in some places now. "Standing room only".

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:57 pm
by iarmhiman
I've left everything to the catholic church..... :smug:

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:02 pm
by Onelostbear
It distresses us to return work which is not perfect

peter o'toole

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:08 pm
by globus
iarmhiman wrote:I've left everything to the catholic church..... :smug:
I expect vandalism!

You heinous creature.

I had to put up with that creed for ages.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:14 pm
by globus
julian wrote:Non est ad astra mollis e terris via
Got me there J. Not sure of source. Can more or less translate.

Can you pop it up in English?

Per ardua ad astra is an RAF motif.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:33 pm
by The Man Without Fear
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with The Man Without Fear.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:38 pm
by globus
The Man Without Fear wrote:The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with The Man Without Fear.
A bit serious, but that will do.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:40 pm
by Toulon's Not Toulouse
Nieghorn wrote:
Toulon's Not Toulouse wrote:Nothing, I'll go for incineration.
I notice they have little boxes for ashes within a larger structure (columbarium?). Not even that?
Nah. I'm happy to leave the space for the living.

Eventually, I'll leave a note to my kids requesting them to go scatter the ashes over the Sportsground quietly at night on the eve of a big European game. It should be a 4G pitch by then. :lol:

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:45 pm
by Kiwias
No gravestone for me. My wife and I both want our ashes scattered in a place we both love -- off Fishermans Wharf at Northcote Point would do fine.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:52 pm
by SaintK
Spike Milligan's
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Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:54 pm
by danny_fitz
globus wrote:Mine.
Walter Mitty RIP.
Fixed that.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:56 pm
by julian
globus wrote:
julian wrote:Non est ad astra mollis e terris via
Got me there J. Not sure of source. Can more or less translate.

Can you pop it up in English?

Per ardua ad astra is an RAF motif.

Sure, Seneca the Younger wrote "there is no easy way from the earth to the stars"=Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.

The RAF motto has a similar meaning, in the same line is ""ad astra per aspera".

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:58 pm
by Raggs
I always liked

"Here lies an atheist, all dressed up with nowhere to go."

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:00 pm
by Joost
I daresay I’ll just want to be burned and chucked off a cliff somewhere.

You could always list out your achievements and go for something like this:

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Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:03 pm
by sewa
Joost wrote:I daresay I’ll just want to be burned and chucked off a cliff somewhere.

You could always list out your achievements and go for something like this:

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Holy sweet jesus, please tell me thats been taken down?

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:03 pm
by happyhooker
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Would seem to encapsulate it all

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:04 pm
by Brazil
Joost wrote:I daresay I’ll just want to be burned and chucked off a cliff somewhere.

You could always list out your achievements and go for something like this:

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They missed off scaramouching.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:10 pm
by Turbogoat
"This time it's permanent"

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:13 pm
by Rugby2023
Mr Mike wrote:I’m fine
:lol: "I'm fine, really!"

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:14 pm
by feckwanker
sewa wrote:
Joost wrote:I daresay I’ll just want to be burned and chucked off a cliff somewhere.

You could always list out your achievements and go for something like this:

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Holy sweet jesus, please tell me thats been taken down?
It's since been ground into dust.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:17 pm
by Raggs
Rugby2023 wrote:
Mr Mike wrote:I’m fine
:lol: "I'm fine, really!"
My missus keeps threatening to get me this t-shirt

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Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:20 pm
by globus
Brazil wrote:
Joost wrote:I daresay I’ll just want to be burned and chucked off a cliff somewhere.

You could always list out your achievements and go for something like this:

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They missed off scaramouching.
A lady I know played the part. Hope you and LP are trundling through parenthood.

We are up to our eyeballs in being grandparents. The trip to the (next to) Wobbledom houses are seriously tedious.

The ruddy GPS keeps wanting us to trundle through all sorts.

We just ignore it and hit the A3 westbound.

I'm so glad I do not live in London anymore. Breath of fresh air up here.

Plus the value of bits and pieces has rocketed in Norfolk.

Cash for the grand-kiddiwinks. The poor people trying to buy first time is impossible without help.

Hope you can bung a bit of stuff to your own.

Go on. Have bit of a punt. Visit our lovely Town.

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:20 pm
by Benthos
"My spirit finally escaped the constraints of identity, time and space, and all they bought me was a lousy bit of stone with my f**king name and some dates on, and plonked it here"

Re: What Goes On Your Gravestone?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:26 pm
by Fenman
Put me in a cardboard box, stick me in the ground and plant a tree on top. No need for any permanent reminder of my existence..