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To: goldstategop

Only a head of government can lie in state. There is also lie in repose.

All pretty much means the same stuff.

I kind of like, “laid out in the parlor.”


11 posted on 02/22/2018 1:45:39 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Vermont Lt

When I was a kid, back in the Stone Age, here Down South, people were laid out in the casket in the living room while visitors brought tons of food...................


15 posted on 02/22/2018 1:49:18 PM PST by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: Vermont Lt
Only a head of government can lie in state. There is also lie in repose.

It's the place that makes the difference, not the position. To lie in state is a government honor and is a public viewing that takes place in a government building, usually a prominent one. To lie in repose is a public viewing in non-governmental building.

26 posted on 02/22/2018 2:16:25 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Vermont Lt

https://youtu.be/-YFRUSTiFUs


34 posted on 02/22/2018 2:37:44 PM PST by madison10 (Pray for President Trump.)
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