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Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :

I came across this quote in a 1942 book that belonged to my grandad:
"Dead he is not, but departed,-
for the artist never dies."
-Longfellow
It reminded me of our old local sign guy, whom I call "Benny the Dead Guy". He passed away about 10 years ago, but his signs are still goin' strong!
By the way, folks, please be gentle with me! This is my first post! (blush)

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Jill M. Welsh

Posted by goddinfla (Member # 1502) on :

I hope to be cremated and my ashes thrown in the Gulf of Mexico, however I want a stone engraved with "I'm not here, I just wanted a rock with my name on it." Seriously this is what I've told family.

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Dennis Goddard
Excalibur Signs & Graphics
Tampa Fl

Posted by Michael Boone (Member # 308) on :

Nothing......not just yet!
Lil boy see's a ole man on the street corner.
He says"hey ole man ...you live here all yer life?"
Ole man says"Uh-uh.....not yet!!!!"

Dont be shy,everyone is too far away ta bite ya!

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Michael Boone
Sign Painter
5828 Buerman Rd.Sodus,NY 14551
Ontime @localnet.com

Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :

I too like to be cremated and spread over the waters of Peggy's Cove (Nova Scotia)
With the words spoken...
May the Fish and Lobster get Fat! And You Too!
(From Me.)

Raven/2001

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Raven/2000
Airbrushed by Raven
Lower sackville N.S.
deveausdiscovery@sprint.ca

Posted by Karen Tighe (Member # 1541) on :

" See? I told you I had a seafood allergy"
or
"I knew I shouldn't have ate the peanuts with my respirator on"
or
"Signs were her life but now theres no sign of life (thats why we buried her)"

best I can manage right now.

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Karen Tighe,
Strandhill,
Sligo in the Wild Wet West of Ireland.

mIRC = cafe_cruiser

Posted by Mikes Mischeif (Member # 1744) on :

"It's not that life was so short, but that your dead for so long"

or this...

"Elvis, Is that you ?

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Mike Duncan
Lettercraft Signs
Alexandria VA

" I set aside a few minutes everyday for myself, Then I am able to take off for a week at the end of the year"

Posted by jimmy chatham (Member # 525) on :

I told you i was sick.

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Jimmy Chatham
Chatham Signs
164 Poplar Rd.
Commerce, Ga 30529
706-335-2348
Fax 706-335-3378
icq#11718273

Posted by The Moon (Member # 452) on :

I don't know what I want on my tombstone, but I do want daisies planted near me... pushing up daisies will be the ONLY way I'll get those things to grow!

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The Moon
aka: Stefenie Harris
Moonlight Designs
Pollock Pines, CA
learnin' somethin' new every day!

Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :

Pause, stranger, when you pass me by,
For as you are, so once was I.
As I am now, so will you be.
Then prepare unto death, and follow me.

Pushing the grass aside a bit more, this was found scratched on the stone with a crude instrument:

To follow you I'm not content
Until I know which way you went!

Owen Moore has passed away
Owin' More than he could could pay

Sacred to the memory of Jared Bates,
Who died Aug. the 6th, 1800.
His widow, aged 24, lives at 7 Elm Street,
Has every qualification for a good wife,
And longs to be comforted.

Here lies the body
of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake

Here lays Butch,
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger,
But slow on the draw.

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Wayne Webb
Webb Sign Studio
creators of "woodesigns"
"autograph your work with excellence"
webbsignstudio@digitalexp.com

Posted by Brad Farha (Member # 931) on :

The nicest thing anyone could say about me after I was deceased would be "He loved the Lord his God with all of his heart."

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Brad Farha, owner
Farha Signs
Beckley, WV
304-252-3778
farhasigns@citynet.net

Posted by Mark Matyjakowski (Member # 294) on :

When I die ... I want people to crush me up and smoke me.
(somewhat quote- Tommy Chong)

Any body ever thought of carving/casting/blasting or at least designing thier own stone?
I'd probably just want my nane and some wild tribal scroll work ... or a cool flame/stripe job ... or something.

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Designing... it's like an itch in the brain... an itch you can't scratch, that if you can figure out how to scratch it, it just itchs more

http://www.slamgraphics.com
Rochester, N.Y.
mark@slamgraphics.com

Posted by Tim Whitcher (Member # 685) on :

RETURN TO SENDER

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Tim Whitcher
Quality Signs & Design
107 E Adrian St
Blissfield, MI 49228
qualitysigns@cass.net

Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :

did I ever mention that my Grandpa in Minnesota made tombstones for a living? It was kinda creepy when we were little ..but it was actually just another form of signs!

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"surf" or "MoJo54" on mirc
Cheryl J Nordby
Signs by Cheryl
(206) 300-0153
Seattle WA.....!
signsbycheryl@hotmail.com
I had a life once. Now I have a computer. http://signsbycheryl.homestead.com/home.html
http://mojosignco.homestead.com/home.html

Posted by Gail & Dave Beattie (Member # 572) on :

the look on ppls faces when they see real coffins in our workshop is a classic.... u just know thay want to ask 'is sumone in there'!
hehehe

i too am gunna get scattered and thrown to the 4 winds, so i guess a stone aint gunna happen..
just so long as they remember to say 'she wouldn't have missed it for the world' at the wake i'll be happy

regards
gail

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on chat T2

Gail & Dave
NSW Australia

taurus_signs@one.net.au

sumtimes ya just gota

Posted by David Fisher (Member # 107) on :

How about
"Connection timed out"
(One for the irc users

David

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D.A. & P.M. Fisher Signwriting
Brisbane Australia
da_pmf@yahoo.com

Posted by Gregg Harbison (Member # 1226) on :

What I'd really like on my tombstone woud be:
"Here Lies A Man of Letters"

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Gregg Harbison
Signs 'n Stripes
615 West St.
McComb, MS 39648

Posted by Pierre St.Marie (Member # 1462) on :

Cremated, sifted, mixed with IMR4064 powder, 44 grains of me in a 7.5 Swiss cartridge topped with a Sierra Matchking 168gr. Make up 1000 rounds and fire me liberally on the 4th of July, Halloween, Christmas, Easter and every anniversary of Clinton leaving office! Ha!

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St.Marie Graphics
& Makin' Tracks Sound Studio
Kalispell, Montana
stmariegraphics@centurytel.net http://www.stmariegraphics.com
800 735-8026
We're chiseling every day of the week! :^)

Posted by John Deaton (Member # 925) on :

I TOLD YOU NOT TO GET
THAT STUPID DOG MAD!

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John Deaton III
Deaton Signs&Grafix
109 N. Cumberland Ave.,Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-573-9101

johnd3rd@kih.net
http://www.angelfire.com/ky2/dsigns

Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :

WHere 'bouts in Minnesota Cheryl? I bet he liked Grain Belt didn't he? yah. sure you betcha.

I spent 9 months in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in 1982 while in da Army. I seen lots of white crosses in prefect rows everyday.

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Mike Meyer SignPainter
575 1st Street Box 3
Mazeppa, Mn 55956
(507) 843-5951
EMail-mikemeyer@sleepyeyetel.net http://www.markfair.com/mikemeyer check out this great web site..www.grainbelt.com

Posted by Mikes Mischeif (Member # 1744) on :

I can't remember where I saw it (maybe Bob Bonds Magazine - AutoGraphics) But those dude pinstriped and airbrushed a Dark Blue CASKET with flames and scallops. Too Cool!!

I want one.

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Mike Duncan
Lettercraft Signs
Alexandria VA

I have never let schooling interfere with my education - Mark Twain

Posted by Steve Shortreed (Member # 436) on :

I want a photo of Jill on my tombstone.

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Steve Shortreed
144 Hill St., E.
Fergus, Ontario
Canada N1M 1G9
519-787-2673
steve@letterhead.com
ICQ 316338
www.letterhead.com/profiles/shortreed/

Posted by Bob Burns (Member # 268) on :

On W.C.Fields' tombstone:
ON THE WHOLE, I'D RATHER BE IN PHILADELPHIA.

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Bob Burns
Bob Burns Signs

1619 Oregon Ave.
Prescott, Az 86305
1-520-778-5879

Posted by Dave Draper (Member # 102) on :

Here is one I just seen the other day!

Here Lies
Sign-A-Ramma Fred
Shot Dead For Using
Black Shading On
Letters of Red
(by a fed up Letterhead)

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Draper The Signmaker
Bloomington Illinois USA
Stop in and visit a while!
309-828-7110
signman@davesworld.net
Raptorman or Draper_Dave on mIRC chat

Posted by Cam Bortz (Member # 55) on :

HEY! YOU! GET THIS #%&*&%# ROCK OFF MY HEAD!

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"A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Raoul Duke (Hunter S. Thompson)

Cam
Finest Kind Signs
256 S. Broad St.
Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379
"Award winning Signs since 1988"

Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :

Steve!
Why would ya want a picture of little ol' me on your tombstone? Check out those gleamimg pink gums!
Last week, a family friend asked me to "critique" sample clay busts of her & her late hubby that she was going to have cast in bronze on their tombstones. Man o man, were they bad! The artist had taken her trademark beehive hairdo and turned it into a "moe". The late hubby resembled Dillinger's police photo. Or maybe an older, thinner version of Jethro Bodine.
I grew up in front of a cemetery and spent many a happy hour there. I often stop at old cemeteries and check out the headstones. Some are way cool, especially up in New England.
Here in Butler, we're lucky that they're spelled right!
I would like to design my own tombstone. My dad's has lovely trailing shamrocks. Tombstones kinda are like signs! I wonder if monument dealers have to put up with the same kinda crap we sign people do?
Thanks, Guys!
Love- Jill

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Jill M. Welsh

Posted by Kathy Joiner (Member # 1814) on :

Someone else's name.

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Kathy Joiner
River Road Graphics
Ponchatoula, La.
Old enough to know better...Too young to resist.

Posted by Kookaburra (Member # 254) on :

Hmmmm... I'm not intending to die soon

But.... I'm not sure.

I'll think about this one and get back to you

But, no-one seems to have welcomed you, so.... WELCOME to the bullboard! I hope that you get hours of fun and entertainment, from this wonderful group of signies. I'm the wonderful junior of the group, being... *ah hem* slightly younger that most here... or all here, I'm not sure which So, welcome to the BB!!!!

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From Katie Wright, 16 year old professional signie wannabe from Aus.

"Life is a great big canvas, throw all the paint on it that you can"

Posted by Adrienne Pereira (Member # 1046) on :

One of my alltime favorite Cowboy poets wrote this:
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Reincarnation, by Wallace McRae

What is reincarnation? A cowboy asked his friend.
It starts, his old pal told him, when your life comes to an end.
They wash your neck and comb your hair and clean your fingernails,
And put you in a padded box away from life’s travails.

The box and you goes in a hole that’s been dug in the ground.
Reincarnation starts in when you’re planted neath that mound.
Them clods melt down, just like the box, and you who is inside.
And that’s when you begin your transformation ride.

And in a while the grass will grow upon your rendered mound,
Until some day, upon that spot, a lonely flower is found.
And then a horse may wander by and graze upon that flower
That once was you, and now has become your vegetated bower.

Now, the flower that the horse done eat, along with his other feed,
Makes bone and fat and muscle essential to the steed.
But there’s a part that he can’t use and so it passes through.
And there it lies upon the ground, this thing that once was you.

And if perchance, I should pass by and see this on the ground,
I’ll stop awhile and ponder at this object that I’ve found.
I’ll think about Reincarnation and life and death and such,
And come away concludin’, why, you ain’t changed all that much.

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Adrienne Morgan
Splash Signs
www.splashsigns.com
"Rainkatt'

Benicia, CA
707-746-7847 (shop)
707-550-4553 (voicemail)
adrienne@splashsigns.com

Posted by dpsign (Member # 1769) on :

What do I want on my tombstone???

Pepperoni and extra cheese.

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Posted by Deb Fowler (Member # 1039) on :

Sausage, black olives, pineapple, green and yellow peppers, and xtra cheeeeese, please.
(the works!)

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Deb
Creative Signs
"All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath. So what does that make today worth?" Og Mandino

Posted by Mike Languein (Member # 319) on :

Well, when I was up in Portland, OR in July I saw this in a cemetary there: it was a marble bench and all around the edges were words carved in naming everything the guy enjoyed in his life. On the top, though were these instructions: "Bite Me"

personally I like a sign from Al Imelli's book:

Dedicated to all those
who were never superstitious
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and always believed in
SIGNS.

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"If it isn't fun, why do it?"
Signmike@aol.com
Mike Languein
Doctor of Letters
BS, MS, PhD
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You know what BS is, MS is More of the Same, and it's Piled Higher and Deeper here

Posted by roger bailey (Member # 556) on :

At the risk of being a bit too bold,
creamate me,put me in a d$%$#^% bag, and run
me thru one last time !
Just a joke I heard once, Roger

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Roger Bailey
Rapid Tac Incorporated
Waikoloa, Hawaii

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