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March 15, 2006 12:03 AM
Broken: Liberty Caskets sign
Rick Chambers submits a picture of this unsettling sign in Kalamazoo, Michigan:
I saw this sign one morning while out for a run and laughed so hard I got a side stitch. Hey, I guess it's good to give the customer options!
What's even funnier is that unless you peeked in a window, you would see that the business had gone under -- so to speak -- and that the sign refers to the building, not the product.
I think the last paragraph or run on sentence should read:
What's even funnier is that unless you peeked in a wndow and had seen that the business had gone under, so to speak, you would think that the sign refers to the product not the building, as is the case.
What you are basically saying once you remove all those prepositional phrases is:
What's even funnier is that the sign refers to the building, not the product.
The latter isn't funny because it assumes that the reader assumes the sign refers to the building. What's funny is that people assume the sign is referring to casket, like I did with my first post.
funny haha. Broken.(cover or remove the former business' name).
What's even funnier though is Capt. Wafer.
Smart guy wasn't paying attention, but you can't take back a post. Suck it up, don't get all mad about it and take out your frustations on someone else.
longhair, if you had read my second post you would have realized that I admitted to assuming what any other average joe would have assumed. So I didn't fully read Rick Chambers submits.... before my 1st post. Like I said, the sign isn't funny if you know it is referring to the building, not the caskets.
Has anyone been to LibertyCaskets.com? They haven't bothered to take down their own website, assuming this isn't a franchise.
Ummm...
You can actually lease a nice casket. They put a cheaper "lining" type box inside of a really nice, expensive casket. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference. It's for when people would like to be cremeated but have a viewing first.
Well no wonder they went out of business - leasing caskets and trying to collect their lease payments from dead beats.
., i was being a bully. no need to tell Capt. Wafer to give it up. the Capt. is really smart and insightful. we should give it up to Capt. Wafer.
Hey! Ho! Hey! Ho!
To the author of the following,
., i was being a bully. no need to tell Capt. Wafer to give it up. the Capt. is really smart and insightful. we should give it up to Capt. Wafer.
Hey! Ho! Hey! Ho!
Posted by: longhair at Mar 15, 2006 4:38:41 PM
Get a life, and your own identity!
One has to wonder if Capt. Wafer looks at this blog to be entertained or to exhibit his erudition thru criticizing others. Funny, I knew what the original post meant from the get-go....
fwiw, this has since been fixed. a real estate company has covered up the liberty caskets sign with one of their own. it's right down the street from my house. imagine my surprise when i saw the pic show up here. :)
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Watching Six Feet Under on HBO one learns that (in CA, at least) it is illegal to resale a casket after a corpse has occupied it.
But as someone with a degree in accounting will tell you some leases, (except on cars) mainly on buiildings and land, come with what is called a bargain-purchase option where one can purchase the leased item for $1. Basically, leasing is a type of financing. Go to RentWay or Rent-a-Center to find out more.
Posted by: Capt. Wafer at March 15, 2006 12:09 AM