Colorado Town Marks 'Frozen Dead Guy Days' (Still not as ridiculous as the UN)

AP via The Carolina Channel ^ | 3/10/03 | AP

[wimpycat]

Celebration Includes Parade, Lookalike Contest

NEDERLAND, Colo. -- Nederland celebrated the second annual "Frozen Dead Guy Days" over the weekend.

For the second year, residents of this town near Boulder honored an 89-year-old Norwegian man who was cryogenically frozen after his death in 1989 and stored in a shed in town.

Local officials tried to stop the experiment. But once they figured out there wasn't much they could do, residents decided to make it the focus of a winter festival.

Saturday, a slow-moving parade complete with the shed and a grim reaper passed through town. Then, there were coffin races in a city park and a "frozen dead guy" lookalike contest.

[wimpycat]

Coffin racing--Dead Guy lookalike contests...hmmmph!

Still, it's not as ridiculous as the antics of France & Co. over at the UN.

[wimpycat]

Rigor mortis ping!

[Constitution Day]

"Frozen dead guy", huh?
Sounds like the denizens of Nederland wanted a good excuse to get snockered.

[wimpycat]

Ping for even more ridiculous news.

[martin_fierro]

We have a winner!

[Happygal]

How do you become a 'Frozen Dead Guy' look-alike? Unless you dress up as Saddam Hussein.

[wimpycat]

ROFL!

[Constitution Day]

EXCELLENT tag line, sir.

[Ken H]

For fairness and balance, they should at least include a reading of The Cremation of Sam McGee.

[Constitution Day]

Robert W. Service, right? That would be very appropriate.

[whipitgood]

Nederland is just a short drive up Colorado 119 from Boulder. Boulder, of course, is where all the really strange people in Colorado congregate. Those who just don't find Boulder to be strange enough go to Nederland.