Grave Humor: Funny, Ironic, and Ridiculous Tombstones

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Funny, Ironic, and Ridiculous Tombstones Electronic book text. Description Details Customer Reviews People act like being dead is so serious. But if you've spent any time in a cemetery, you know a lot of those dearly departed have to be rolling over in their graves--with laughter. This collection of ironic, comic and just plain ridiculous tombstones proves that it's possible to have a sense of humor about kicking the bucket.

Just be careful you don't laugh yourself to death. Electronic book text Pages: The panel can be seen here. Some of them have humorous epitaphs, including "Hold my beer and watch this" and "He's Dead, Jim". As they silently pray, Murphy notices that the picture on the tomb is Rocco's mugshot, and that a painted-out police arm is holding his long hair up out of his face in a ridiculous fashion.

All reverence quickly disappears. Hubbins suggests an epitaph for his own grave at one point: Arthur contains several on the final page of Arthur's Halloween, with probably the most bizarre being "Here lies the body of Sally Bent: Kicked up her heels and away she went" The Catcher in the Rye has Holden remarking on profane vandalism and saying that his gravestone will most likely read: For example, one in The Church Mouse has "He ran the fete sack race on a full stomach".

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In the Christmas special, she is kayaking and says this to a man who warns her to stay away from a particular stretch of water. She ignores his advice, and is killed when her boat goes over a waterfall. Her friends are then seen standing by her tombstone, which is inscribed with the words "I still ain't bovvered".


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As always, there is an example from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When Buffy dies at the end of season 5, her tombstone reads Buffy Anne Summers, beloved sister, devoted friend. She saved the world. A Rushmore-sized carving of the man's last name in the side of a mountain, with tiny little plots staked out for the two heroes in its shadow. In Blackadder Goes Forth , Blackadder says he wishes his tombstone to be inscribed: Here lies Edmund Blackadder, And he's bloody annoyed.

On The Big Bang Theory , Sheldon bought a monogrammed funeral urn for Leonard in case his deviated septum surgery didn't end well.

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It read "Here lie the ashes of Leonard Hofstadter. He thought he was right, but his roommate knew better. He gave us his wisdom, his love, and his life a couple of times. The tombs under Castle Ravenloft had a number of funny inscriptions on their individual crypts.


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Grave Humor: Funny, Ironic, and Ridiculous Tombstones

The race may go to the swift, but vengeance is for the loser's relatives. The Lonesome Manor in Epic Mickey , which is based on this ride, has them as well. The train ride at Six Flags over Georgia in the late s had a tombstone hidden among the weeds: The "last rites" option of Saradomin's holy book like a Bible reads "Thy cause was false, thy skills did lack; see you in Lumbridge when you get back. In the original Japanese version and the Dawn of Souls English translation, the tombstone read "here lies Link ". Sole is an example. The game came out in , obviously. Can be found in Monkey Island 2: Fallout 2 has a number of these, including the "four slugs from a.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has a whole graveyard of these in its expansion pack, with new tombstones added with each dead character, regardless of involvement in the main storyline. Every new Sheothian has a unique narrative regarding their personality on their tombstones. The Elder Scrolls Legends: Battlespire had another whole graveyard of these, and this graveyard was referenced to in The Elder Scrolls Adventures: In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim , many of the word walls that you get your words of power from are epitaphs of some sort in the dragon language.

A lot of them say something about some hero who died in battle, or some sort of ancient Nord proverb, but some of them say something like this: Here lies Fjolmod Foul-Air who stank as much on earth as his body does now in the ground. Neverwinter Nights has a tombstone that reads along the lines of "Here lies X, who scoffed at the warnings of lesser men and built this fine tower.

He discovered his error a few weeks later. Baldur's Gate beats this one to death in one town. You get things like "Here lies X, who was killed by long list of summonable creatures " followed by the Latin for "do not call up what you cannot put down", implying that this was a hapless summoner who didn't know what he was getting into. Ne invoces expellere non possis. Do not call up that which you cannot put down.

Spoiler alert: We're all going to die.

The city of Haven in Dragon Age: Origins has a graveyard filled with humorous tombstones, including some Shout Outs to others on the the page. Anyone who has played Knights of the Old Republic or Mass Effect will breathe a sigh of relief upon viewing that tombstone. Used in Quest for Glory IV , with numerous "graveyard humor" jokes scattered beyond the tombstones.

And Quest for Glory I , for that matter. Not to mention Igor , who is a veritable walking fountain of graveyard humor. Naturally, given the setting, one of them the one that says "don't stand on his grave" is a trap that does Rosella in if she actually stands on it.

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Also, there's a blank grave; if examined to close, she's shoved in and Buried Alive , the words "Rosella, Rest in Pieces" appearing on it. Just be careful you don't laugh yourself to deat People act like being dead is so serious. Just be careful you don't laugh yourself to death. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Grave Humor , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia.

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Jan 27, Shelia rated it liked it. Death can be funny at times. This book was a bit cheesy but I got a few good laughs. I think it took all of 10 minutes to read. Nov 16, Traci rated it really liked it. It's almost embarrassing to say I "read" this book; it took me all of about 10 minutes to flip through the whole thing. But it provided me with some awesome laughs, and with the world the way it is these days, one needs to laugh as often as one can. The book operates on a very simple principle. On the left page you see a photo of a tombstone with the name of the dearly departed.

On the right page is some sort of humorous comment about said tombstone. Sometimes there's only one headstone and the c It's almost embarrassing to say I "read" this book; it took me all of about 10 minutes to flip through the whole thing. Sometimes there's only one headstone and the comment is about the name, or the epitaph if the deceased chose to have one done. Other times there's more than one headstone and the comment page points out how well they go together, such as the two headstones in the same cemetery mere feet apart that read "Maxwell" and "House".

Hey, I never said it was intellectual humor! There are the odd headstones, too, the ones that are shaped like something from the person's occupation during life and some "infamous" last words. It would make a great gift for the person in your life with a warped sense of humor, or perhaps if you exchange Halloween gifts I'm really surprised at the reviews.

The book, while a cute idea, was filled with typos. When there are only a few hundred words, a few typos is even more inexcusable. I was also surprised to see an infant's tombstone mocked - perhaps I'm too sensitive, but adults' tombstones can be amusing or funny or weird but a child's tombstone is never anything but sad.

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I'm disappointed that my library had this book. I hope they received it as a freebie because I'd like my fine money to go toward something b I'm really surprised at the reviews. I hope they received it as a freebie because I'd like my fine money to go toward something better! Aug 18, Tasha rated it did not like it.