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#39757 08/29/01 01:36 AM
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One of the local businesses -- owned by a friend, in fact -- is The Skinner Funeral Home.





Ewwwwwwww.


#39758 08/29/01 02:16 AM
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We used to have a funeral parlor in a town named Cape May Court House, NJ, called the Lively Funeral Home!


#39759 08/29/01 02:37 AM
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Frederick's is rumored to be marketing a new bra called the "embargo."

Oh, Ted, I'll go bust trying to keep abreast of your comments! Well, at least they're uplifting.


#39760 08/29/01 02:41 AM
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When I was going to school in San Diego lo these many years ago, there was a mortuary called The Goodbody Mortuary. And in Los Angeles there was Dunniway and Fitch. Now if Dunniway had dumped Fitch and joined with Goodbody, they could have had something!


#39761 08/29/01 07:48 AM
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There is a cemetery in a town of south-eastern Spain called "Our Lord of Good Health Cemetery".



#39762 08/30/01 01:21 PM
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Here in Burlington, Vermont there is a little motel called the "Pacific View Motel." No, the Green Mountains are not high to afford a view clear across the continent, but rather the motel is next to a Pacific Gas Station.


#39763 08/30/01 01:27 PM
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One of the two Funeral Homes in Prattville, Alabama is actually called 'Ridout Funeral Home'. I presume it's a family name and yes, it is pronounced 'Ride Out'.


#39764 08/30/01 01:40 PM
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"Pacific View Motel."

More like Pathetic View Motel, eh.

'Ridout Funeral Home'

A surprising amount of people DO claim that white horses escort those dying to the 'other side'. :-)


#39765 08/30/01 02:46 PM
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I've mentioned this before, I'm sure, but it bears repeating:

In Ithaca we have a Bangs Funeral Home. Not so noteworthy in itself, but it is right next door to Bangs Ambulance Service.


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Is there a Bangs Body Shop to complete the set?


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