[78-L] "Makes me spend my money..."

[Bud Black]

"It's not the coughin' that carries you off.  It's the coffin they carry you
off in."

Bud 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Malcolm Rockwell
Date: 01/01/09 19:13:28
To: 78-L Mail List
Subject: Re: [78-L] "Makes me spend my money..."
 
Only if it's still full.
M
 
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David Lennick wrote:
> Maybe John Zacherle will buy it.
>
> Still alive at 90!
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zacherle
>
> dl
>
> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>
>> The article indicated that the son was considering posting the thing on
>> eBay...frankly I would also be surprised if it ever does show up there.
>>
>> That said,  I'm sure there is a market for it.  Think of all the people
who
>> have paid large sums for grilled cheese sandwiches which "show" an image
of
>> the Virgin Mary...or one I read about a week ago:  fellow paid some
hundreds
>> of dollars for a corn flake shaped like the state of Illinois...at least
>> that's what it looked like to him and the other bidders.
>>
>> Hmmm...makes those broken Dinah Shore records we chatted about a while
ago
>> look like  a pretty good buy.
>>
>> Taylor B
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 3:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] And in other gruesome news..
>>
>>
>>
>>> I can't find it on oy-vey.  I looked up Big Bopper and casket.  What
>>> other categories would you suggest?  Oh, and be glad they re-buried
>>> him.  Othewise that museum that displayed the casket might have turned
>>> it into a Lenin situation.  By the way, that DID happen to Caruso.  I
>>> just got a copy of Dorothy Caruso's book and she relates that his body
>>> WAS on display under glass for EIGHT YEARS until she finally got the
>>> Italians to close the coffin.
>>>
>>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>>
>>> Tom wrote:
>>>
>>>> My guess is that the casket will be removed, and soon, from ebay. As I
>>>> understand it, ebay doesn't want to be perceived as the world's
>>>> auctionplace for the macabre, the obscene, and the morbid, and goes to
>>>> considerable lengths to prevent people from selling body parts, nazi
>>>> memorabilia, pornography, and all kinds of other unsavory stuff.
>>>>
>>>> This has gotta fall into one of those prohibited categories.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --- On Thu, 1/1/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>> Subject: [78-L] And in other gruesome news..
>>>> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
>>>> Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009, 4:57 PM
>>>>
>>>> Own the Big Bopper's coffin!
>>>> http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/local/36759549
html?&showAllComments=y
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>>
>>>>
 
 
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