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Showing posts with label funeral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label funeral. Show all posts

12 January 2009

All men are the same

A man was leaving a cafe with his morning coffee when he noticed a most unusual funeral procession. A funeral coffin was followed by a second one about 50 feet behind the first. Behind the second coffin was a solitary man walking with a black dog.

Behind him was a queue of 200 men walking in single line. The man couldn't stand his curiosity.

He approached the man walking with the dog, "I am so sorry for your loss, and I know now is a bad time to disturb you, but I've never seen a funeral like this with so many of you walking in single line. Whose funeral is it?"

The man replied, "Well, that first coffin is for my wife." 

"What happened to her? " 

The man replied, "My dog attacked and killed her." 

He inquired further, "Well, who is in the second coffin?" 

The man answered, "My mother-in-law. She was trying to help my wife when the dog attacked and killed her also. " 

A thoughtful moment of silence passes between the two men. Then the first one asks in excitement "Can I borrow the dog?" 
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The man replied "Join the queue."

(from an email)

02 September 2008

Wedding at a Funeral Home? Posible!

Now this is what I call ingenuity. I know I am weird, but this couple might be considered a bit weirder. No, this is not Four Weddings and a Funeral. Yes, family and friends promised attendance. Some guests refused to attend but others come with the promise that "there would not be any caskets or corpses in the room."


Michigan couple tie the knot at funeral home

ST. JOSEPH TOWNSHIP, Mich. - It generally has flowers, and a clergyman is often present, but this was a first for a local funeral home.

Jason and Rachael Storm held their wedding at Starks and Menchinger Family Funeral Home, where he is a funeral director.

Their reception, including dinner and dancing, also was held at the funeral home.

"This room is usually filled with sadness and contemplation, but today it is filled with joy and celebration," the Rev. Greg Prather said at the start of Saturday's ceremony.

Jason Storm, 24, doesn't see much difference between getting married in a church or the funeral home.

"I look at it as, if you go to a church and get married, how many caskets do you think have been rolled down that aisle?" he told The Herald-Palladium of St. Joseph.

Rachael Storm, also 24, said the location did "not creep me out at all."

"I'm very accustomed to what he does. The one thing I'm very much about is being unique," she said.

Not everyone was entirely comfortable with the idea.

Rachael Storm said some invited guests initially refused to attend, but the couple assured family and friends there would not be any caskets or corpses in the room.


(The pic is not that wedding but googled from picasaweb)