Tombstones - initials added and clues
#1259567
10/28/21 10:32 AM
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Pandora
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Sonic Boomer
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The phrases below appear on the tombstones of well-known people. Can you identity them? -1. Every housewife’s friend -2. Workers of all lands unite. The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. KM -3. Called back ED -4. Blese Be The Man Thatt Spares Thes Stones And Curst Be He That Moves My Bones WS -5. On the whole I’d rather be in Philadelphia (might be just a myth) -6. That’s all folks! -7. Quoth the raven nevermore -8. She hath done what she could C----- N----- (temperance) -9. Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water -10. Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here JJ -11. The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o’er him planned RWE -12. Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime -13. The best is yet to come -14. If you seek his monument, look around C---------- W--- (architect) -15. Look Homeward, Angel -16. I told you I was sick
The moon is actually more useful than the sun since the moon gives us light at night when it's dark. The sun only gives us light during the day when it's already bright out.
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Re: Tombstones
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#1259590
10/28/21 01:59 PM
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fildil
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5 W. C. Fields - I hope it's not a myth. I can just imagine him saying it.
Fil
There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant
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Re: Tombstones - initials added
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#1259749
10/30/21 08:48 AM
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Urban Worrier
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10. Jesse James "That dirty little coward that shot Mr Howard Has laid Jesse James in his grave"
To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self. I wonder what's on television...?
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Re: Tombstones - initials added
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#1259904
11/01/21 12:43 AM
11/01/21 12:43 AM
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flotsam
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11 Given the initials I am guessing Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quantity has a quality all of its own
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