hmmmm..... OK

[jeff of pa]

today on Bourbon Street

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Why is it crossing the road?

 

[Dave44]

Is this person a criminal who hasn't figured out the dates of Mardi Gras?

 

[Chadeaux]

Is this person a criminal who hasn't figured out the dates of Mardi Gras?

Dave, apparently you've never been to my home town. Anything can be an excuse to dress up in costume or otherwise party and pass a good time.

It's a different place where you can attend a funeral for someone you don't know just because you like to dance to the music.

 

[Dave44]

Dave, apparently you've never been to my home town. Anything can be an excuse to dress up in costume or otherwise party and pass a good time.

It's a different place where you can attend a funeral for someone you don't know just because you like to dance to the music.

I think when I finally hit the big party, I may want my service held there too.

 

[Chadeaux]

Read not too long ago about some folks there having their wakes while they're still alive.

Others have made arrangements that when they passed their remains would be posed at a table or bar in the manner they would be when alive ... and the wake would take place around them.

I know I posted links to the pre-death wake, here's a link to one of the ladies attending her wake after she passed (the corpse is the one with the beer in front of her):

Dead People Get Life-Like Poses at Their Funerals - ABC News

 

[jeff of pa]

Dave, apparently you've never been to my home town. Anything can be an excuse to dress up in costume or otherwise party and pass a good time.

It's a different place where you can attend a funeral for someone you don't know just because you like to dance to the music.

I've never been in Person Myself, But just from Looking in on Bourbon street
via EarthCam occasionally It's obviously the Coolest City(town/street) I'm aware of

Only Problem Where do you swing a Detector ? It seems to be all
Cement & Buildings

 

[Oregon Viking]

 

[Rebel - KGC]

I've never been in Person Myself, But just from Looking in on Bourbon street
via EarthCam occasionally It's obviously the Coolest City(town/street) I'm aware of

Only Problem Where do you swing a Detector ? It seems to be all
Cement & Buildings

Graveyard in French Quarters... at NIGHT! Halloween is a GREAT time to go! HH! Good Luck!
Ppl throw coins, etc on graves to keep "spirits" HAPPY!

 

[Chadeaux]

I've never been in Person Myself, But just from Looking in on Bourbon street
via EarthCam occasionally It's obviously the Coolest City(town/street) I'm aware of

Only Problem Where do you swing a Detector ? It seems to be all
Cement & Buildings

As are most cities. Believe it or not there are forts, large place called "City Park", private residences that have been there since the 1700s, even a building on Royal Street built in the 18th century that recently collapsed might afford the discriminating (sleuthy) detectorist the opportunity for a bit of relic hunting.

 

[Chadeaux]

Graveyard in French Quarters... at NIGHT! Halloween is a GREAT time to go! HH! Good Luck!
Ppl throw coins, etc on graves to keep "spirits" HAPPY!

Not a good idea for a tourist, because of the living things that prowl the cemeteries at night.

2 things I never did: Visit cemeteries on Halloween or try to retrieve doubloons on the ground at Mardi Gras.

Oh, and Jeff, the uptown area has banquets (you northerners might call them sidewalks) which usually has a grassy area on the street side. Lots of old mansions in various states of disrepair along with the showcase pieces.

If nothing else, it's a feast for the eyes. Also, look up Rennwaggen on these forums. Not here on the forum any more ... He's gone partying.

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Read not too long ago about some folks there having their wakes while they're still alive.

Others have made arrangements that when they passed their remains would be posed at a table or bar in the manner they would be when alive ... and the wake would take place around them.

I know I posted links to the pre-death wake, here's a link to one of the ladies attending her wake after she passed (the corpse is the one with the beer in front of her):

Dead People Get Life-Like Poses at Their Funerals - ABC News

Wow! that is Creepy

 

[releventchair]

Wakes were important in the days of leaded pewter. Some people appeared dead from lead poisoning but recovered in a day or two.
A fear of reawakening in a coffin surely contributed to having wakes. A body was cleaned and dressed, often in an outfit that had been put aside for that occasion, some people had their coffin stored under their beds for years as a sort of insurance policy and when self built was to their own standards.
Sitting up with the dead through the night. Singing, friends and family getting together, a meal when affordable. With folks having to travel to visit pre auto the second night may have been an occurrence.
Now it is a time to get together and celebrate a life that has passed.

 

[texasred777]

Hope this isn't too far off subject. In 1955, my dad bought an old house in the country. It had no running water, a two-holer out back, a fireplace in the living room was the only source for heating; just 5 rooms. Dad had a propane tank installed for a gas range for cooking, bought a wood-burning stove for heat in the bedrooms, and had a company clean out the well that the windmill pumped water from. After the well was cleaned and repaired, the windmill would not work and wasn't worth repairing; but the main problem was the water wasn't fit to drink. So Dad 'hauled' water for the duration of the 6 months we lived there. There was a cistern house in the back. It had a large cistern (tank) inside of a lattice-work sided building. The house had gutters all around that drained into the tank. No, we didn't drink the water!
Now, to tell the story. An old man who drank quite a bit, lived there before he died. He had a coffin in the cistern house. He was always getting drunk and telling the world good bye, and falling into the coffin to sleep off the liquor. This was a true story evidently, because it was told by a lot of people that knew him. Even the insurance man who stopped by to collect money from him when he fell behind on his monthly payments told us about his antics. The insurance man happened to also be the agent for our policy on the house. He came out to look the house over when changing the policy from where we had lived before. That was when he related the story about the old man's drinking. There is a bit more to the story, but I couldn't tell it without naming some names that someone might see and be offended.

 

[jeff of pa]

Wakes were important in the days of leaded pewter. Some people appeared dead from lead poisoning but recovered in a day or two.
A fear of reawakening in a coffin surely contributed to having wakes. A body was cleaned and dressed, often in an outfit that had been put aside for that occasion, some people had their coffin stored under their beds for years as a sort of insurance policy and when self built was to their own standards.
Sitting up with the dead through the night. Singing, friends and family getting together, a meal when affordable. With folks having to travel to visit pre auto the second night may have been an occurrence.
Now it is a time to get together and celebrate a life that has passed.

7 Weird Graveyard Inventions | Mental Floss

 

[Terry Soloman]

Why is it crossing the road?

As I have asked many times, why can't we live in a world that doesn't question a chicken's motivation, simply because it chooses to cross a road?

 

[Chadeaux]

Whew! For a second there, I thought you were going to turn this into a Halloween thread and tell us the old boy finally did fall asleep in the coffin and not wake up.