HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY

The Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium, rest 7,992 of our military dead.

It is Memorial day 2008 and I can’t even begin to put into words the depth of my gratitude, the amount of respect I have, my total appreciation for, and my admiration for all of those who have served in the military, including my Dad.

Those who are serving in the military, and those that payed the ultimate sacrifice so that I can sit behind this keyboard and express my freedom of speech to type out any dumb ass collection of words I want without consequence.

For Memorial Day weekend, the Weekly Photo Tips blog is honoring American soldiers with a beautiful slideshow. WATCH IT

Your time has expired!

If you put some money in it...does she come back to life for awhile?
I think it's great to go out with this much humour, but I want full-on taxidermy. Stand me at the foot of your stairs with a tray of cigars in one hand and a carafe of red wine in the other. I’ll be a convenient and fetching drinks cabinet, hat stand, loyal friend and conversation piece for generations to come. I’ll also inexplicably migrate around your house at night looking for cookies.

The picture above shows the Okemah, Oklahoma, gravesite of one Barbara Sue Manire, who passed away on her 64th birthday in 2005 and is now interred at Highland Cemetery beneath a whimsical symbol of time expired, a parking meter with a "64 year time limit." (Her headstone also bears the legend "OUR MOM … HER HUMOR LIVES ON.")

As Barbara Sue’s daughter, Sherri Ann Weeks, explained, the unusual decorative feature at the gravesite was indeed her mother’s idea. Mom always said she wanted a parking meter with ‘time expired.’ And she wanted to be on the front row of the cemetery so she could see what was going on. We gave her what she wanted.

YOU WILL BE SEVERELY PUNISHED IF YOU DIE HERE!

The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.

In an ordinance posted in the council offices, Mayor Gerard Lalanne told the 260 residents of the village of Sarpourenx that "all persons not having a plot in the cemetery and wishing to be buried in Sarpourenx are forbidden from dying in the parish."

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