GRAVEDIGGERS COMPETE IN RACE JUDGED ON SPEED _ AND STYLE

AP ^ | June 3, 2016 | PABLO GORONDI

[PROCON]

DEBRECEN, Hungary (AP) -- Digging their way to the top, 18 two-man teams of Hungarian gravediggers displayed their skills Friday for a place in a regional championship to be held in Slovakia later this year.

Participants in the contest held in plot 37A of the public cemetery of the eastern Hungarian city of Debrecen were being judged on their speed but also getting points for style - the look of the finished grave mounds.

[PROCON]

Per the article, due to the popularity of cremation, grave-digging is a dying occupation.

[chajin]

Do they have any competing teams from the Marine Corpse?

[Olog-hai]

“Before I let that backhoe beat me down, I’ll die with my shovel in my hand.”

[elcid1970]

If there’s a muzzie invasion of Hungary, these gravediggers will have all the business they can handle.

“Hijrah” brand muzzie compost is another possibility.

[JPG]

The Winner!

[Robert DeLong]

Slavic Girls

[PROCON]

Spoil sport :-)

[GOYAKLA]

Digger O’Dell is turning in his grave!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I’d like to see him do that here in Arkan-saw! We have to use a crowbar to pry the rocks apart to plant a garden!

[BenLurkin]

[al baby]

He is such a foreign born un american pos potus

[Chickensoup]

I remember that cartoon! What was the name of the strip?

[Chickensoup]

In my town all graves are hand dug. Many commitments happen in the spring.

[elcid1970]

“Tumbleweeds”

My favorite character: Hildegarde Hamhocker.

[PROCON]

[Blood of Tyrants]

A backhoe can dig a grave much quicker and easier.

[BenLurkin]

Tumbleweed.

[Larry Lucido]

[petercooper]

Fredo!

[dfwgator]

Jimmy Conway: Oh, hey, Henry, Henry! Here's an arm!
Henry Hill: Very funny, guys.
Jimmy Conway: Here's a leg!
Tommy DeVito: Here's a wing!

Tommy DeVito: Hey, what do you like, the leg or the wing, Henry? Or ya still go for the old hearts and lungs?
Henry Hill: [Vomiting] Oh, that's so bad!