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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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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.
------------------ Dennis Goddard Excalibur Signs & Graphics Tampa Fl
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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!!!!"
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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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" 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)"
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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!
------------------ The Moon aka: Stefenie Harris Moonlight Designs Pollock Pines, CA learnin' somethin' new every day!
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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.
------------------ Wayne Webb Webb Sign Studio creators of "woodesigns" "autograph your work with excellence" webbsignstudio@digitalexp.com
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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.
------------------ 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
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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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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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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!
------------------ 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! :^)
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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.
------------------ 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
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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.
------------------ Mike Duncan Lettercraft Signs Alexandria VA
I have never let schooling interfere with my education - Mark Twain
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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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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
------------------ Jill M. Welsh
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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!!!!
------------------ 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"
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One of my alltime favorite Cowboy poets wrote this: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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.
------------------ Adrienne Morgan Splash Signs www.splashsigns.com "Rainkatt'
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Sausage, black olives, pineapple, green and yellow peppers, and xtra cheeeeese, please. (the works!)
------------------ 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
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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 - and always believed in SIGNS.
------------------ "If it isn't fun, why do it?" Signmike@aol.com Mike Languein Doctor of Letters BS, MS, PhD ___________________
You know what BS is, MS is More of the Same, and it's Piled Higher and Deeper here
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