Thursday, October 22, 2009

Down at the Graveyard: Light Thoughts about Grave Matters

OK. let's just collect all the clinches, puns, etc. about graveyards and bury them once and for all.


I was talking to the Superintendent at the cemetery:


How's business? I said.


Oh, just great. In fact, people are dying to get in.


Is that so?


Yeah, besides that there are people dying today who never died before.


No kidding! You do a good job here, I bet.


Yeah, well, we've never had any complaints for any of our tenants. Nobody has ever tried to get out.


What's it like working in a cemetery?


Well, its' awfully quiet. No loud music. No wild parties,  Late at night, it's pretty dead around here.


What do you do if a prospective customer complains about a plot?


Oh, we'd start digging into it and not stop till  we got to the bottom of it.


But aren't a lot more people getting cremated these days? Does that hurt business here?


Well, you know, more people are thinking outside the box, and that is a grave problem for us.


Do you have any worries at all?


Oh yes,  I do have a few worries, but I  think about them for a while and then just bury them.


You like working here, on the whole?


Oh yeah. And undertakers are wonderful people, very loyal and trustworthy. I can assure you  they will be the last to let you down.

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