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Best Line Ever to Run in an AP Obituary

Started by David Parmet · 6 months ago

The family is looking into whether Thompson’s cremated remains can be blasted out of a cannon, a wish the gun-loving writer often expressed, Brinkley said.


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  • Ross

    4 years ago

    We have a phrase over here in the UK.
    "Only in america". As in "Only in america can .."
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  • Gary

    4 years ago

    I keep telling my wife I want to be flung from a trebuchet to the tune of Procul Harem's "Whiter Shade of Pale". She thinks I'm kidding.

    I think it would look and sound great. In slow motion. I guess I can't change life's FPS.
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  • Shawn Lea

    4 years ago

    Almost as good as the one I read years ago, that I now wish I had clipped. The guy being buried had been a janitor at the funeral parlor where he was going to be buried. He left explicit instructions for his casket to be standing up - because he did not want anybody looking down on him, now that he was dead. The image has stayed with me for years and always makes me smile.
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