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Re: Obits Thread, put the dead here.

Postby Scorequick » Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:15 am

Andyc wrote:Mary S.
This may be big! Maybe you can get some paid advertisments by mortuaries or people selling burial plots?
:lol:


I agree it may be a good way to urn money?



krispy krematorium might like to advertise. :)
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Re: Obits Thread, put the dead here.

Postby So.cal.fan » Sat Oct 15, 2011 6:52 am

Score,
I was thinking of something really big, like Forest Lawn. :D
Lots of celebrities are buried there, many are old time Del Mar loyal fans.
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Re: Obits Thread, put the dead here.

Postby Igeteven » Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:06 am

So.cal.fan wrote:Score,
I was thinking of something really big, like Forest Lawn. :D
Lots of celebrities are buried there, many are old time Del Mar loyal fans.


Your right, many of them.
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Re: Obits Thread, put the dead here.

Postby Scorequick » Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:34 pm

So.cal.fan wrote:Score,
I was thinking of something really big, like Forest Lawn. :D
Lots of celebrities are buried there, many are old time Del Mar loyal fans.


thumbs up.
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Re: Obits Thread, put the dead here.

Postby Scorequick » Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:34 pm

Alberta, star gorilla at San Diego Zoo Park, dies


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2 ... at-32.html
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Postby Joel » Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:14 am

Scorequick wrote:Alberta, star gorilla at San Diego Zoo <img src="/images/chat/safari.jpg"> Park, dies

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2 ... at-32.html


I remember Alberta..pelted me with his feces one time. Had a better fastball than Koufax..
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Postby PrivateSmiles » Sun Oct 16, 2011 3:49 pm

Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon died today in fiery crash.

http://news.yahoo.com/indy-500-winner-w ... 19226.html
"And Afleet Alex just ran right by Giacomo like he was standing still!"

Tom Durkin, 2005 Belmont Stakes
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Re: Obits Thread, put the dead here.

Postby Igeteven » Sun Oct 16, 2011 4:10 pm

PrivateSmiles wrote:Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon died today in fiery crash.

http://news.yahoo.com/indy-500-winner-w ... 19226.html


:cry:
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Re: Obits Thread, put the dead here.

Postby Igeteven » Mon Oct 17, 2011 12:41 pm

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Re: Obits Thread, put the dead here.

Postby PrivateSmiles » Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:30 am

Libyan Dictator Moammar Gadhafi Is Dead, Libya's Prime Minister Says

By HUMA KHAN | ABC News – 30 mins ago

http://news.yahoo.com/libyan-dictator-m ... 38217.html
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