I overheard someone say “I could almost hear Brahms turning in his grave with this performance.”

Well, there's an idea. Just attach a shaft between a generator and the soles of the shoes of every buried person (cremations are no good, for obvious reasons) through a hole in the casket and annoy the hell out of them, may God rest their souls (and not their soles!)

Competitions could be organised. In annoy-the-dead-competitions, scores are based upon the number of megawatts generated during a certain timespan. Who can perform the worst redition of "New York New York" or “It's all right Mama”, demonstrate how God DOES play dice (and a great game of Black Jack at that). And just a few dead popes should be able to meet the demand of the chistmas light decorations of an average mall.

The possibilities are endless...
-- Ehrm, Nov 21 2005

do people wear shoes when they get buried? that seems strange to me, in a similar way to how i don't like to wear shoes in bed.
-- daaisy, Nov 21 2005


Maybe something to do with the Egyptian/other beliefs that the dead need their actual stuff for the next life? ...and we've just kept with tradition?

I've also thought I would want to be curled up comfy on my side instead of stiffly faced-up.
-- Zuzu, Nov 21 2005


Do they continue to turn in their graves after the corpse has decomposed?

Oh, silly me, how could it compost at all if it didn't turn?
-- ye_river_xiv, Feb 13 2007



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