Posted on 06/15/2022 9:28:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
It may not look like it at first glance, but a headstone on the Warren-Powers Cemetery in Polk County has a hidden message.
"Forever in our hearts, until we meet again, cherished memories, known as our brother, father, papa, uncle, friend, and cousin," said Lindsay Owens, daughter of the late Steven Owens.
If you pay special attention to the headstone, you'll notice that the first letter of each phrase reads 'F--- off.'
It's something that Steven Owens' family members say he often said jokingly.
"It was definitely his term of endearment. If he didn't like you, he didn't speak to you. It's just who he was," Lindsay Owens said.
"He's easily riled up. It was always a goal of some sort to have him tell you to do this," said Zachary Owens, Steven's son.
Steven's family said that the epitaph is something his family did as a harmless way to remember him, but it has now been called into question by the cemetery.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Whoa.
An old one courtesy of folklorist B.A. Botkin:
Papa loved Mama.
Mama loved men.
Mama’s in the graveyard.
Papa’s in the Penn.
10. Why would something on a gravestone “Raise Concern”?
Because it could be about “raising the dead”? /sarc
Lol
Iowa
Hence,
‘IDIOCRACY’.
.
More than Comedy
It’s a Documentary!
That is Interesting,,,
Polk County Iowa. County seat is city of Des Moines.
(The esses are silent but the city is buzzin’)
h/t Pat Hughes
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