November-December is nice, too, but a little too revealing for this family-oriented site....
Posted on 09/18/2002 10:26:11 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Death is hardly something to look forward to, but one Italian funeral home is trying to make the afterlife a tad more tempting by using bikini-clad women to sell its coffins.
On its site http:/ www.cofanifunebri.it, the Rome-based funeral home and coffin factory Cisa features its hand-crafted caskets alongside models sipping champagne or reclining seductively on the lids.
"We wanted to make the whole idea of picking your coffin less serious, maybe even make people laugh a bit," Giuseppe Tenara, one of the partners, said.
Near-naked women are used to sell everything in Italy from computers to chocolate bars, but Cisa has taken the advertising ploy to new limits.
The page featuring the firm's "Madonna ( news - web sites)" coffin shows a pouting woman in zebra shorts and high-heel boots kneeling next to the casket, while in "Empire Style," a blonde donning a black G-string leans on a coffin and turns her backside to the camera.
"Unfortunately the site hasn't helped sales much, because we mostly get calls from far away places like Greece and Spain instead of Rome," Tenara told Reuters.
That hasn't stopped Cisa from creating an online "sexy calendar" with yet more temptresses frolicking among the coffins.
Still, not all clients have been charmed.
"Some people are scandalized, but we just explain that we're trying to make people laugh," Tenara said.
November-December is nice, too, but a little too revealing for this family-oriented site....
I don't know. But if I were single, I might assign myself as her bodyguard. To keep Mike away, doncha know.....
LOL
Or the stiffest "happies" LOL
If you want on or off this list, please let me know!
This has come about after much badgering by you, my friends and extended family...
Um, er. Probably not limited to the dead.....
Who says Tiny Tim isn't sexy?!
I thought it was nice, and I wore it a couple of times. He saw me in it, gave me a devilish grin, and asked--"You like it, yes?"
Sure--why not?
In front of my date, he reached in my coat, and opened the inside flaps of the tie and turned in inside out. There was a color silk screen of a naked woman.
When in Rome.........
The models look like something that might be seen in a car or motorcycle magazine. I imagine the calendars will be popular with morticians around the world; sort of like the "pin-up" calendars from Pirelli Tires were thumbtacked to the walls inside auto repair shops for so many years.
Such a gentleman you are! Such a sacrifice you're willing to make........ < chuckle >
No Islamic casket, complete with 72 virgins?
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