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Please add another elven of these images so that we may construct a calender. It's worth every trudging step thru the douchebagge snow to capture theez! This image is effing AWESOME man!!! Woo. Wu. ~Please subtract my stupid entry from the Queue. You are Ze GRATISST ARTEESTE in ze WHIRL and ave no time for nonsense pleeeaz. Zank yu very maach. | |||
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| Knows what a real civil war should be Member  |
One problem: 12 images of a graveyard in January for a calendar? Wouldn't people rather have all-year-'round pics? Here's another. Shrunk to 33% of it's size and .jpg image quality is 54% for net speed. No filters, cropping, or uzzair tweekings:  | |||
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| Weirdy American Tart Thing Member  |
Oh that's just creepy and amazing! I kinda think that if we have to have cemeteries then they should grow vegetables instead of flowers. Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. The brain: not always amenable to logic. ~Hive | |||
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My Dad once said he wants us to plant celeriac on his grave. I'm not sure he was joking... ****************************************************************** Mid-life crisis? I haven't gotten over birth trauma yet. - Lester Zombie ****************************************************************** 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be' said the Cat 'or you wouldn't have come here' | |||
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| was not written by a man named "Cougar" Member  |
Personally I think it would creep me out to eat veggies grown from dead people nutrients. ---------------- Duck...duck...duck...duck...BOOBS! | |||
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| Knows what a real civil war should be Member |
That would make you a type of sin-eater then; a highly respected member of any community. Or a looney.   | |||
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| Weirdy American Tart Thing Member |
It's more creepy to me that so many acres of arable land is just sitting there, looking green and being kinda useless. Yes I know that opinion is most likely a minority of one! I just don't see the point of cemeteries. Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. The brain: not always amenable to logic. ~Hive | |||
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| lives deliberately Member  |
I see the point of cemetaries-- a place for th living to go to remember the dead. But I don't see the point of coffins. They seem incredibly futile and exorbitant. I don't wish to get buried (I want to be cremated), but if I did, I'd request one of these. Then again, if it weren't for coffins, we wouldn't have as much archeological or anthropological information as we do. So I might have my stuff buried in a time capsule, but my body is for the worms. ego forceps ergo ego forceps **** "Chives?"� "Yes, m'lud?"� "Is that Ms Ephemera hovering over the croquet lawn?"� "Indeed m'lud. She's marshalled all the haggle-dans. Missy-twigs and vale-nymphs from Claypole Woods. Apparently she intends to tear this house down and dance on the ruins."� "Well, Chives, you'd better start the car, what? And pack my tennis things too"� --- Joe 3Heads | |||
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| Weirdy American Tart Thing Member |
I understand that's supposed to be the point of them. I just don't use them like that. I can't even tell you where my grandparents are buried, but I still remember them. Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. The brain: not always amenable to logic. ~Hive | |||
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| Knows what a real civil war should be Member |
I see it as a (wealthy) person's last attempt at immortality and conquering nature. The way the unique man-made geometric structures contrast against the randomness of the landscape and tree branches are a person's last "LOOK AT ME!" The time and money that went into making some of these extravagant pieces must have been eyebrow-raising (and I'm not showing the statues I found because I'll be stealing their poses, ze entiaire raison I frizz mai boot off in ze furst place!!). Just think: you could give your money to help your family or a charity, but no, instead you're either going to (a) make a baroque memorial to yourself or a 'respected member of the community' or (b) show the world the depths of your pain when a loved one passed away. Either way, the stones tell interesting stories. I didn't take a photo of it but there was one stone that resembled a, um-... cylindrical column with a bulbous top. How would you like to be recorded in history by stating that you had penis envy?  | |||
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| Pirate/Zombie/Hero Member  |
With the way families scatter across the country and even the globe, it seems to me like most people don't use cemeteries that way anyway (err, the way Al was talking about. Not Furi. Synchronized posting, yay!). People are too far away to visit graves often so they have other ways of remembering. I'd totally eat vegetables from a graveyard. I think that'd be an excellent way of honoring those who came before. And much better than eating vegetables that grew in poop. | |||
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i use to want to be buried in a graveyard, but not one my family could visit, so in a hundred years time someone could pass by and think 'i wonder who she was' and then get distracted by something shiny and pass on again. but now i don't. ~ I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. the parrot... ...gets tiresome. the parrot... ...i ate him. CHIKKINZ? | |||
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| Knows what a real civil war should be Member |
 That's a bald eagle flying away. He was about 30 feet away perched in a tree when my clomping around made him leave. The bird was so big it took me a few moments to compose myself and think hey dummy, take a picture of it. | |||
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| Weirdy American Tart Thing Member |
wow, that's impressive! Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. The brain: not always amenable to logic. ~Hive | |||
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| Knows what a real civil war should be Member |
Mind you I was standing in 18 inches of snow in sneakers and jeans, so running through the park after the eagle was a no-go. Beez and I kinda-sorta drove in the direction it flew but Birdie was well-hid by then.  | |||
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| Knows what a real civil war should be Member |
 Ze furst stacthoo ees almost done. Not too sure I like how ze base oof eet looks... nut the same type of style as ze rest of ze land. (Zat ees wat happens wan you fart around too mooch between art sessionnes; you forget ze style and muss re-learn eet!) | |||
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| the Penitent Member |
YES- I am digging where you are going with this- the base looks perfect as it is now- - - depends on where the foreground goes from here. ~yes? And-WOW, How COOL is THAT to see a bald eagle in the graveyard?! AWESOME!!! Cheers!! Good point on the 'calendar idea'- - - that was rather silly in retrospect. (Derr) But WOW that 2nd image was spectacular! Good catch man!! | |||
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| Knows what a real civil war should be Member |
 Starting to poot in ze foliagge, zen ze rest of ze stones, zen ze pipples. | |||
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| Knows what a real civil war should be Member |
 More trees. Now stones. Oof ze DEAD! OOOoooOOOoooOOOooo!! | |||
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| Knows what a real civil war should be Member |
 I figaire ze head hooba-hooba of zis place would haff a leetle hut oof hees own at ze ceremonial place becooz hee ees ze head hooba-hooba. When I was a leetle boy, ze pastoor of mai chorch had a hidey-hole like zis in ze chapel, and while we were singing to ze Lord, ze basturd went back zaire and got smashed on ze communial wine. Tru story, my friends. | |||
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Neil Gaiman www.NeilgaimanBoard.com www.NeilgaimanBoard.com The World's End The World's End Ze GRATISST ARTEESTE in ze WHIRL
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