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Something I noticed.. in Beetle juice, the waiting room is full of people that've been dead a long,time, and are stuck in the state they were in at death. (Smoker in bed charred, guy that got run over flat as a pancake.) I figure the main ghostly couple should've been wet the whole time. I also wonder where the Maitlands ended up when the cartoon started.



Speaking of Ghosts (thanks Disney, and Thurl.), the Walk I took at Evergreen was nice enough.

Yesterday, I walked over and under the New River, over a lesser canal twice, saw a very handsome black lab puppy, ate wheat thins and drank cold cold iced tea between six and twelve feet above an assortment of veterans, Freemasons, infants and people of the Jewish faith. Not to mention the unmarked graves of folks killed in a disastrous hurricane in 1926.

A few pictures from my trip

Click to make bigger where available.

Evergreen Entrance Evergreen Entrance
Historic marker, with a breakdown of the cemetery's history. readable at full size
Babyland Babyland
It always freaks me out a little when there's an area especially for babies.
Bessie Sherman -  Lasted 100 years! Bessie Sherman - Lasted 100 years!
I see candy left behind. I see candy left behind.

Do Cemetery elves eat it? Squirrels?
Ida B McLaughlin Ida B McLaughlin
I'd-a be McLaughin' too, if I lived to be 101.
mason beds mason beds
a couple that was bricked in, rather than interred.
crazy gregg crazy gregg
the old owner of the elbo room Lauderdale. king of spring break. one of my favorites headstones.
mickey - 1 mickey - 1

back of a child's headstone. I wonder if there are power ranger / ninja turtle / yu-gi-oh! headstones out there?
mickey -2 mickey -2
front of the mickey mouse headstone
our hero! our hero!
My favorite headstone... no date or name. plus, three exclamation marks. Who is buried here? what did they do to be a hero?
heehee heehee
heh. Cremation. Blackburn.

I can laugh at the most goofy morbid stuff at times.


When the crypt goes creak,
And the tombstones quake.
Spooks come out for a swinging wake.
Happy haunts materialize,
And begin to vocalize.
Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize.

More to follow tomorrow.



In Tribe of Tiger, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas says that domestic cats, especially neutered cats, remain in a perpetual adolescent state and interact with humans as surrogate parents. (via [livejournal.com profile] talonvaki)



Moment of Lyric -
All those people that you know
floatin' in the river are logs.
Well let's take this potted plant
to the woods and set it free.
I'm gonna tell the owners
just how nice that was of me.


Interactive Autopsy



Girls sued for delivering cookies

DURANGO, Colorado (AP) -- Two teenage girls who surprised their neighbors with homemade cookies late one night were ordered to pay nearly $900 in medical bills for a woman who says she was so startled that she had to go to the hospital.

Judge Doug Walker declined Thursday to award punitive damages, saying he did not believe the girls acted maliciously.

Taylor Ostergaard, 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitti, 18, baked the chocolate chip and sugar cookies one night last July.

They made packages with a half-dozen cookies each and added large red or pink construction-paper hearts that carried the message, "Have a great night."

The notes were signed with their first initials: "Love, The T and L Club."

Then they set off to make their deliveries.

Wanita Renea Young, 49, said she was at her rural home south of Durango around 10:30 p.m. when she said saw "shadowy figures" outside the house banging repeatedly on her door.

She yelled, "Who's there?" but no one answered, and the figures ran away.

Frightened, she spent the night at her sister's home, then went to the hospital the next morning because she was still shaking and had an upset stomach.

The teenagers' families offered to pay Young's medical bills, but she declined and sued, saying their apologies were not sincere and were not offered in person.

The girls declined comment after the ruling. Taylor's mother said the girl "cried and cried."

"She felt she was being punished for doing something nice," Jill Ostergaard said.

Young said the teenagers showed "very poor judgment"

"The victory wasn't sweet," Young said. "I'm not gloating about it. I just hope the girls learned a lesson."

The teens said they did not answer when the woman called out because they wanted the treats to be a surprise.



1 year ago - Super-loved ones, 2-headed baby surgery, fox wedding weather, meat eaters, scale, ruins

2 years ago - Nice thoughts, torture, LCD, note to Newt, Latrave b-day card, Class action suit.. I got my $12 check, eventually, Chandlerisms

3 years ago - MP pay delay, tron, #10 tight, naughty work thoughts, Scripts, system lockdowns and short tempers

4 years ago - At Last, first find hero machine (now in my toybox), bug, Dani and Rhonda hook me up!

RE: Girls sued for delivering cookies

Date: 2005-02-06 01:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] no1topaz.livejournal.com
Reading things like this just make me sad. Way to teach kids about the world. Some people suck. :(

Re: RE: Girls sued for delivering cookies

Date: 2005-02-06 01:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
Sad statement, indeed.

I think the girls should be lauded for doing an anonymous good deed, not sued.

Heh. Good Choice of Subject Line

Date: 2005-02-06 01:55 pm (UTC)
rejectomorph: (rudisuhli_demon of love)
From: [personal profile] rejectomorph
Wow. I'll bet those girls never even dreamed that, when they went out to deliver cookies, they would end up going to the house of the one person around whom the entire world revolves!
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
Who knew they lived so close to the celestial axis?!

Re: Girls sued for delivering cookies

Date: 2005-02-06 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] no1topaz.livejournal.com
No good deed goes unpunished, eh?

Re: Girls sued for delivering cookies

Date: 2005-02-06 02:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
I've gotten away with a few in my time. I still think it's worth the effort. :)

Date: 2005-02-06 02:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eryx-uk.livejournal.com
Loved the interactive autopsy. :)

I read about the cookie girls the other day was very shocked and dissapointed. I see no reason what so ever why they should be sued or even forced to pay fees/damages.
Pathetic.

Date: 2005-02-06 03:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
I wish my sink was big enough for a pile of human organs!

Imagine how many dishes could pile up there!

Date: 2005-02-06 03:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talonvaki.livejournal.com
I've dug out my copy of that book to find the exact wording of that bit, since I couldn't find it online anywhere (that one article was the best I could do, and it's isn't really it...)

Date: 2005-02-06 03:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
I'd really like to see the study that was done... Newt's over 5 years old now, and is still very much a baby-head.

Re: Girls sued for delivering cookies

Date: 2005-02-06 05:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] no1topaz.livejournal.com
It's always fun to be able to skirt the system. ;)

Date: 2005-02-06 10:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silentyrs.livejournal.com
black burn... hah, go morbid sick humor!

Date: 2005-02-07 01:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
Crispy critters!

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