Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: EDINVA; Bon mots
That’s a real obit, isn’t it?

Yes, the New Orleans Times-Picayune has run an amazing number of similar ones, too. One that I recall was for a slightly older deceased "entrepreneur" (read: drug dealer) whose children all had automotive names. Fiero, Camry, Tercel, etc.

Even funnier, though, were the two memorials that were printed on the one-year anniversary of a man's death. The first used his given name, William, and featured the same photo that had been used in the obit the prior year. The usual "Missing you terribly, yada, yada" - Signed, loving wife and children. Right below that memorial was a second one, featuring an "out on the town, partying" photo of the same man, identified as "Willie", written by another woman who missed him terribly and had apparently been with him, uh, at "the end".

I'm pretty sure I still have a clipping of that. I remember reading it at the office and circling both of the "In Memoriams" in yellow highlighter, then leaving the page on my boss's desk. He laughed so hard I was afraid I'd have to call the paramedics.

38 posted on 03/19/2013 7:11:09 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies ]


To: Charles Martel

God, I hope the Times-Pic cutback to fewer publishing days doesn’t affect its obits! Maybe YOU can become an ‘entrepreneur’ with “Obits of NOLA” kinda like “People of WalMart.”


40 posted on 03/19/2013 8:15:53 PM PDT by EDINVA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson