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Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« on: September 15, 2011, 06:57:48 PM »
Today, while helping my mom on some things, she stoped at an graveyard out in middle of no where fluvanna county and asked me,
"you want me to show you the funniest headstone you will ever see?"

Predictably, I said "yes, of course."

After I I read the (rather large) headstone and laughed my ass off, I ran back to the car to take pictures so I can share with you lot.
 :lol:

Enjoy.

 
the overveiw....

 

Isn't wife #2 lovely?

 

So, here lies Buckshot.... But not wife #1, because they got devorced....

(notice that he kindly provided us with his SSN, so the government KNOWS where he is)

 

However, Buckshot got along with wife #1 well enough to have four kids, before marriage to wife #2, who he clearly liked much better....

 

But they only had one kid...

And here's his resume.... He had a fourth grade education, founded a bunch of stuff.

I guess he figured it was good to have on hand before going to see st. peter. Clearly, he was well preped for that interveiw....

 

In summery, he was a good, modest guy (loved his wimmonz and kids), although, that bit about being straightforward may have been a touch redundent...
 
 :laugh:  :lol:  :laugh:

Too bad Buckshot has passed on. He'd probably fit in around here.
 =D


 
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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2011, 07:04:37 PM »
Looks like Floyd the barber to me.

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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2011, 07:09:45 PM »
Once I was a slave at the sawmill
Mercy on a poor boy
Mercy on a poor boy
Never saw a dollar bill
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward toward the light; but the laden traveller may never reach the end of it.  - Ursula Le Guin

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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2011, 07:09:49 PM »
They almost ran out of room for the "THRU"  (would have changed the whole meaning)
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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2011, 07:10:46 PM »
Do we take his name and SSN amd try to get a credit card?  >:D
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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2011, 07:11:49 PM »
HA! His picture looks like it should be underneath the wall of text. Is it just me or does it look like he is looking up and smiling?
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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2011, 07:12:02 PM »
Looks like Ol' Buckshot married Russel's mom when he was about 30.   ;/ :O ;)


And it's doesn't appear that Mrs Buckshot#2 is dead or if she is, she ain't buried with Ol' Buckshot.  ;/
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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2011, 07:14:46 PM »
Do we take his name and SSN amd try to get a credit card?  >:D

Too be fair, considering its location, I doubt its been attempted....
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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2011, 07:21:58 PM »
Looks like Ol' Buckshot married Russel's mom when he was about 30.   ;/ :O ;)


And it's doesn't appear that Mrs Buckshot#2 is dead or if she is, she ain't buried with Ol' Buckshot.  ;/

You mean "she"

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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2011, 07:26:20 PM »
Too be fair, considering its location, I doubt its been attempted....
 :lol:
So there's still a chance!  ;)
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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2011, 07:29:37 PM »
Quote
THE EARTH IS A BETTER PLACE BY HIS PASSING

I read that as "better off dead".
In thy presence is fulness of joy.
At thy right hand pleasures for evermore.

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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2011, 08:39:33 PM »
I read that as "better off dead".
You missed "thru".

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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2011, 09:46:37 PM »


I've always been partial to this one.
I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you also were meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought

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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2011, 11:37:59 PM »
 
"As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so shall you be."
   

Grim ..... but true. [popcorn]
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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2011, 11:51:34 PM »
Grim ..... but true. [popcorn]

Grim?  You ain't seen grim 'til you've checked out the cheery little monuments known as transi tombs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_tomb

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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2011, 11:57:10 PM »
I was thinking more in terms of epitaphs .... not 3D artwork ..... [tinfoil]
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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2011, 11:58:46 PM »
You mean "she"


Married Mrs#2 - 16  July 1973
They had one son - Russell - born 17 Sep 1944

Which means Little Russ was just shy of his 30th Birthday when Mom and Dad got Married.  ;) =D ;/ :O

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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #17 on: September 16, 2011, 12:08:17 AM »
Grim?  You ain't seen grim 'til you've checked out the cheery little monuments known as transi tombs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_tomb

A 3D life-size image is worth a thousand words...

Nope, nothing compares to grim like the Ossuary at Verdun.  Nothing like looking in the windows and seeing the bones of over 130,000 killed in WWI.
« Last Edit: September 16, 2011, 12:56:53 PM by scout26 »
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« Reply #18 on: September 16, 2011, 07:20:09 AM »
"My Friend, have you ever felt the depth of a sigh or the weight of a tear?"

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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #19 on: September 16, 2011, 10:25:43 AM »
Home is the hunter home from the hill,
And the sailor home from the sea.
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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #21 on: September 16, 2011, 02:43:05 PM »
Married second wife in 1973 and had their first child in 1944.......chris3

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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #22 on: September 16, 2011, 03:02:32 PM »
I like the fact with each wife they had a kid named Richard Edward :)

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« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2011, 03:09:41 PM »
Nope, Second Mrs. Buckshot had RUSSELL in 1944, 30 years before she married Ol' Buckshot in 1973.

Doesn't say when Ol' Buckshot got rid on the First Mrs. Buckshot, but they had their last kid in 1932.  So I'm going to guess that sometime between 1932 and 1944.   Although something makes me want to say it was probably right around Summer of '44 when Mrs. Buckshot the Firstest gave him the old heave-hoe.

Call it a hunch. ;) =D
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Re: Most Awesome Gravestone EVER!
« Reply #24 on: September 16, 2011, 06:45:30 PM »
I like the fact with each wife they had a kid named Richard Edward :)



Actually, i'm slightly concerned by the Gatewood on that stone.

Buckshot may actually be related to me.

Funny thing is I don't think momma noticed that.
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