However, it always gets passed to the oldest boy. So my brother will get it one day.
Well . . . there are ways around that, you know . . . like, if there wasn't an oldest boy around at the relevant time . . .
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Aug 16, 2006 2:36:54 pm PDT #3045 of 10001
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Gus - Aug 16, 2006 2:40:17 pm PDT #3046 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
if there wasn't an oldest boy around at the relevant time...
See? Otherwise, it comes down to plotting the early demise of the males.
Trudy Booth - Aug 16, 2006 2:47:30 pm PDT #3047 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Daddy is more into "cheap" than "green." He's offended by the notion that you have to pay to be dead.
If he converts to Judaism at the last minute he could get out of being enbalmed (I think).
Connie Neil - Aug 16, 2006 2:48:00 pm PDT #3048 of 10001
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It could simply be a case of oldest boy being off on an open-ended journey to darkest Antarctica, or something, and "Of course I'll take care of that for him till he gets back, I'll make sure it has the best of treatment--until, you know, he gets back."
sarameg - Aug 16, 2006 2:53:19 pm PDT #3049 of 10001
Erin, suggest the body farm! (that forensics place they use to study decomp.) He might even get to be put in a tree! (Actually, I vaguely recall hearing something about them having more bodies than they needed.)
Maternal grandparents were both boxed and plotted. Paternals went to science, I think. I know for sure grandpa did and we didn't do any burial or ashes for grandma. My parents and I will probably do the same. Somewhere in my piles of stuff, I have my parents when-we-die docs -from when I had PoA when they went to Peru. Dunno about brother, but given his field, I'd say he'd likely do the same. Oooh, something to ask next time we talk!
§ ita § - Aug 16, 2006 2:55:00 pm PDT #3050 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Plastination!
Strix - Aug 16, 2006 2:55:44 pm PDT #3051 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
If he converts to Judaism at the last minute he could get out of being enbalmed (I think).
Hmm. He's pretty pissed at God. But I don't think you have to actually LIKE God to be Jewish. He might balk at the circumsicion though.
Although he was born in 1940, so I suppose -- ACK! JUST REALIZED THINKING ABOUT FATHER'S PENIS' STATE OF BEING.
Must. Bleach. Brain.
Gus - Aug 16, 2006 2:56:00 pm PDT #3052 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Damn, dudes, they are plotting our bodies!
Strix - Aug 16, 2006 2:57:19 pm PDT #3053 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Erin, suggest the body farm! (that forensics place they use to study decomp.) He might even get to be put in a tree! (Actually, I vaguely recall hearing something about them having more bodies than they needed.)
Hey, not a bad idea...We'd still have to pony up for a headstone, but he might dig that idea.
I think Mom might put her foot down, though. Assuming she outlives him.
Gus - Aug 16, 2006 3:00:05 pm PDT #3054 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
We dudes are all doomed.