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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Re: Death-obsessed THANKS #7029 09/27/00 07:14 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen OP Carpal Tunnel OP Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 A big "thank you" for all your reponses, especially TEd for thanatomania, and maverick for your mortaphilia joke. That was an excellent way to lighten the morbid tone before the thread became moribund. The humorous end to the thread also suggested a new depth of meaning behind the age old cry of the failed stand-up comic: "I'm dyin' out here" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Death-obsessed THANKS #7030 09/27/00 07:50 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 1,094 Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U... J Jazzoctopus old hand Jazzoctopus old hand J Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 1,094 Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U... Are we now saying that this thread is dead? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Death-obsessed #7031 09/28/00 03:46 PM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia B Bridget addict Bridget addict B Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia >Ted goes away, coffin in his windingsheet< AS my grandmother always said, It wasn't the cough that carried 'im off. But the coffin they carried 'im off in. Now what was that about sentences ending in prepositions??? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Death-obsessed #7032 09/28/00 11:04 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass we've danced all around it: thanatophilia - an undue fascination with death [OED] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Death-obsessed #7033 09/29/00 09:12 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta In reply to: one who loves cemetaries and funerals (see Harold, in "Harold and Maude") Another fan? At last. Let me herald this great day by getting all maudlin over the fact that I haven't seen this work of cinemtographic genius in years. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Death-obsessed #7034 09/29/00 09:21 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 J jmh Pooh-Bah jmh Pooh-Bah J Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 Thanks for bringing this film to my attention. I must have missed it during my "tryingtobeafilmbuff" years. It looks like lots of other people like it too. It gets an average of ***** at eopinions.com http://www.epinions.com/ep?temp=allrev&res=mvie_mu-1009241&rt=mr Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,351 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 813 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 27 A C Bowden 22 LukeJavan8 2 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,549 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,918 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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