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|    Aidan Kehoe to All    |
|    Re: Plan Your Epitaph Day (2 November)    |
|    03 Nov 24 16:50:05    |
      From: kehoea@parhasard.net               Ar an triú lá de mí na Samhain, scríobh Ross Clark:               > Created by American "epitaph artist" Lance Hardie, 1995.        > Oh well, anything to drum up a little more business.        > Crystal quotes Benjamin Franklin:        >        > "The Body of B.Franklin, Printer; like the Cover of an old Book, Its        > Contents torn out. And stript of its Lettering and Gilding, Lies here, Food        > for Worms. But the Work shall not be wholly lost; For it will, as he        > believ'd, appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and        > amended By the Author."              I’d like my epitaph to have my name and date of death.              Lee Marvin’s is great:               LEE        MARVIN        PFC        US MARINE CORPS        WORLD WAR II        FEB 19 1924        AUG 29 1987              --       ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /       How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’       (C. Moore)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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