the creator has a weird sense of humor

Otto ottosell at googlemail.com
Wed Apr 18 16:25:11 CDT 2012


There is a famous scene in "Easy Rider" with the protagonists on acid
at a New Orleans graveyard:

http://youtu.be/qp184faWaus

2012/4/18 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> Here in New Orleans most graves are above ground in small individual
> mausoleums, or multi-level versions.  The corpses inside cook rather
> quickly from the hot sun, and soon are dust.  That allows multiple
> famile members to share the same space, just pushing the dust toward
> the back to make new room.  A very cozy arrangement.
>
> http://www.neworleansonline.com/neworleans/attractions/cemeteries.html
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 1. More than 50% with an increase of 1% per year.
>>
>> This has the numbers from 1998, from the „The Cremation Society of
>> Great Britain“:
>> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuerbestattung#Heute
>>
>> More protestant, more cremation.
>>
>> 2. It looks like if that is the case:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity
>>
>>
>> Next thing they'll find out will be that cremation adds too much CO2
>> to climate change and should be forbidden. Bad for the Hindus...



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