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HAVE YOU THOUGHT about what it will say on your tombstone?
Over the last few hours, a lot of people on Twitter have – so many, in fact, that #mytombstonein5words is now trending.
One user took inspiration from Spike Milligan:
While another continued in the technological-fail vein:
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DES CFC / Twitter / Twitter
Paddy Power’s suggestion struck a chord with quite a few people:
Paddy Power / Twitter
Paddy Power / Twitter / Twitter
As did this:
Some users took the opportunity to make a point or a TV suggestion … or express their love of bacon:
Henry VIII got involved from beyond the grave, which was nice of him:
Glasnevin Museum also got in on the action:
And, as with many Twitter discussions, talk inevitably turned to a certain band:
Powerful.
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“Would you please cut the grass! State of me!”
“Just dropped out for lunch…”
There is actually a headstone in Aghadoe, Killarney, which says; – ” LET HER RIP “
Remember to turn off immersion!
“It seemed like a good idea at the time!”
” she was a mad thing ” !
The Dash
I read of a man who stood to speak
at the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on the tombstone
from the beginning…to the end.
He noted that first came the date of birth
and spoke the following date with tears,
but he said what mattered most of all
was the dash between those years.
For that dash represents all the time
that they spent alive on earth.
And now only those who loved them
know what that little line is worth.
For it matters not, how much we own,
the cars…the house…the cash.
What matters is how we live and love
and how we spend our dash.
So, think about this long and hard.
Are there things you’d like to change?
For you never know how much time is left
that can still be rearranged.
If we could just slow down enough
to consider what’s true and real
and always try to understand
the way other people feel.
And be less quick to anger
and show appreciation more
and love the people in our lives
like we’ve never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect
and more often wear a smile,
remembering that this special dash
might only last a little while.
So, when your eulogy is being read,
with your life’s actions to rehash…
would you be proud of the things they say
about how you spent YOUR dash?
Copyright 1996 Linda Ellis
238 words Tom.
“I am the Stig”
Linda Ellis could consider ….’Dying ,my greatest contribution to poetry’.
…..I am stiff at last!!!
She died roaring!
“Bury me upside down so the world can kiss my arse”
That’s more than 5 words !
What do I care I’m dead.
Here is 5 words.
“The journal won’t miss me”
Ah glen , I would miss ya !
Thanks Suzie
I would invite you but it’s kinda hot where I’m going.
Either will most of the readers
;-)
Glen , might see you there , hot is good .
I remember, meny moons ago Gerry Ryan, R.I.P through out a question on his Show , On how you would like to be buried, standing up, facing North, South, East, or West, well he must have forgot to put on the 7 second delay, a smart boy rang the show with his choice, Gerry asked him how he would like to be buried, and he answered up to the balls in Bib Baskin, if fairness to him he got his spoke in before Gerry cut him off, there was absolute silence on the radio for quite a while ,I would say Gerry was in convulsions.
A wee bit off the subject but funny, not to often you would catch Gerry.
I would miss you Glen. You and Frank made the Journal. Dam I miss Frank.
Not to worry Dave
Heaven doesn’t want me and hells afraid I’ll take over.
So the journal are stuck with me for the minute.
Many years ago one of my kids was making their Fist Communion and herself and I had to attend a meeting with the other parents and a priest. He asked how we’d like our child to remember the day. As everyone pondered the question my mouth engaged before my brain and said “as the day his father won a huge jackpot on the lotto”. For some reason that priest had no sense of humour.
What about Hell then, Glen.
As do some here…
I let the dogs out.
Should have listened to Frank.
“Here lies Twonky Kong”
In really small writing so that people will have to walk on my grave to read the small text “you’re stepping on my balls”
There’s a million euro in…….
I didn’t pay Irish Water and I’m never going to.
or
I didn’t come up with an original idea and now I never will!
“Are those my feet?”
It’s dark in here .
It is hot there as well lol.
‘I told you I was ill…’ Spike Milligan
” Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite ” – is what is actually on Spike’s headstone, because the local council wouldn’t allow ‘ I told you I was ill…’ – so they wrote ‘as Gaeilge’ & fooled them.
There’s a dentist buried in Sligo, his headstone reads: ‘Now filling his last cavity’
More than 5 words but my fav was always ‘Here lies an atheist, all dressed up and no where to go’. Lol
Maybe I shouldn’t have got the missus a copy of ’50 Shades Of Grey’ after all …
Valar Morghulis
Nice choice! I personally want “You win or you die”.
Just another deceased debt slave
Billy Connolly is planning a message in very small writing so that you have to walk up very close to read it.
“You’re standing on my balls”.
“Told I was I’ll”? Nice one Amanda.
‘Sent from iPhone’ I.e an auto correct joke…
Dyslexic headstone?
Musician, Artist, Actor, Author, Stud
Died 25 December 2096
I told you I was sick
‘The worms crawl in, and the worms crawl out. They crawl in small, and they crawl out stout’
RIP in peace
Ding dong the witch is dead.
YOU CAN’T SAY THAT ABOUT JOAN…
Oh thank god for that
I’ll be back
First re-incarnated man rests here
“Still looking down on me” Lol !!
“You have the rest of eternity to think inside a box”
The only boxes we make are in our heads?
Wats the one direction obsession yawn
” sic transit Gloria mundi ”
- in other words, – “it was a terrible journey, Gloria got sick last Monday”
Please repose virgins here!
‘I didn’t want a tombstone’
You wanted a 99 instead… lol.
Or a Kit Kat?
Either “Well this sucks” or “Dead, back in 10 minutes”
“Finally, a diet that works!”
Does my bum look big in this
Another one bites the dust.
“I told you I was sick”
As a woman dressed up as Merkel kills you with her whip by calling you Michael in a German brothel? lol.
What does this button do?
Been there,done that, I’m knackered I need a rest.
YOU ARE WHAT I ONCE WAS…
AND YOU WILL BE AS I AM NOW…
Don’t look down- you’ll crank your neck-
Darling I can’t hear you
Here lies Martin, inventor of the self-polishing shoe.
And so the game ends.
Been everywhere else….
Hope my last cheque bounced !
Only man-flu, she said.
That’s not a real gun…
“Dear Lord, tis a very hard task for a man to wait here, who has nothing to ask.”
I’m coming back for you
“Does this button do anything?”
Was that it ?
“It will not work! Oh.”
Mozart’s final movement…
His bladder and bowels just went in D major?
Here lies succumb to truth.
Couldn’t stop picking at it
For.the techies out there:
Reboot In Progress
Or
Down for maintenance
Knowing some on this site, it would be vote yes or vote no, lol.
Vote No to gay marriage …
Vote Yes to gay marriage …
That is 5 words, lol.
He use to pee himself laughing,
He then peed himself dying…
Bloody diabetes lol.
I told you I was sick…
I told you I was sick
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