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    I just saw a facenutz post from someone wishing their dead relation a happy birthday. I can't say this is the first time I've seen this, and every time I've had to stop myself from saying something potentially offensive about it.

    I suppose if it helps the (living) person feel better, no harm, no foul. But it just seems really odd to me.

    Likewise, the "in loving memory of <whoever>" thing on the back window of someone's car. I realize that they feel the need to memorialize a loved one, but is that really the best place they could think of?

    The same goes for those little makeshift memorials on the side of the road. Is there some magical quality about that particular spot that requires a memorial? Like it's the location where the soul left the body? I don't want to belittle the grief of people...but I just don't get it.

    All that said, I will admit to drinking an adult beverage in honor of a person, usually on their birthday. But it's always in the context of a toast, and I don't specifically wish the person a "happy birthday." The wife likes to also do this on death days, as well, which strikes me as kind of macabre. And as we age, we unfortunately find ourselves doing more and more of these toasts.

    Anyway...I'm just kind of confused about the whole thing. Thanks for reading.

  • #2
    bwah. bro and I did some goofy shit

    Hopped a fence at the country club in CT where our dad won the CT amateur championship a long time ago and we spread some of his ashes on the ninth green
    John Erlichman, one of President Richard Nixon's closest aides, has admitted America's "War on Drugs" was a hoax designed to vilify and disrupt "the antiwar left and black people" when it was launched in 1971.

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    • #3
      Regarding the roadside memorials

      On one of the back roads near where my parents live there are two memorials for people killed in car accidents. They're on opposite sides of the road less than 100 yards apart. As the years have passed both memorials have gotten incredibly elaborate - giant crosses, pictures, ornaments, etc. It just seems that it's more a quest to out-do the other memorial at this point rather than memorialize a person (tragedy?).

      Of course, I have no connection to the deceased or the mourners so maybe I'm just a callous asshole.
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      Your Retarded

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      • #4
        Yeah I don't get the ads in the paper either

        Sometimes they are about some geezer that keeled over 20 years ago!
        "I could buy you." - The Village Idiot

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        • #5
          And burying shit in the backyard

          to sell a house. WTF
          John Erlichman, one of President Richard Nixon's closest aides, has admitted America's "War on Drugs" was a hoax designed to vilify and disrupt "the antiwar left and black people" when it was launched in 1971.

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          • #6
            Somehow I don't see the spreading of ashes as weird. It was personal and meaningful to you, but it wasn't something that you put on display for others.

            (If my kids want to honor me at the local golf course, they'd have to dump the ashes where I spent most of my time: in the woods.)

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            • #7
              exactly

              Im in charge of spreading my Mom's when she goes and I will leave some in a lot of different favorite places of hers. Good job, Loki and Bro.
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              • #8
                my problem with those things...

                they are distracting as hell sometimes when driving...some are so close to the road...obviously because its the death scene but still...and if you were a loved one, wouldn't you want a memorial at a happy place and not the spot where the person met a violent end?
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                • #9
                  Harry Kallas is still doing &quot;Fudge Kitchen&quot; radio spots.

                  The boardwalk fudge shop is sure getting their mileage out of Harry the K's taped testimonial. The guy has been gone since 2009 and they are still creeping listeners out by playing his pitch.

                  Right after he died they did a little intro to prepare you for it saying "Our old friend Harry Kallas said it best..." but now they just let it rip.
                  Officially awaiting Douchebagnacht II since
                  May 7, 2010




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                  • #10
                    Or on the clown at the 18th hole
                    John Erlichman, one of President Richard Nixon's closest aides, has admitted America's "War on Drugs" was a hoax designed to vilify and disrupt "the antiwar left and black people" when it was launched in 1971.

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