Tombstones - initials added and clues
#1259567
10/28/21 10:32 AM
10/28/21 10:32 AM
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Posts: 52,968 Upstate NY
Pandora
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Sonic Boomer
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Upstate NY
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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
Netflix needs to stop asking if I'm still watching and start asking if I've switched the laundry over yet
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Re: Tombstones
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#1259590
10/28/21 01:59 PM
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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10/30/21 08:48 AM
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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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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