The British tradition of flowers spelling out the name of the deceased in the window of the hearse was subverted in Cumbria.
The Final Journey funeral company explains: "A request from a dying man with a cheeky sense of humour to replicate his favourite scene from the TV comedy League of Gentlemen at his own funeral ... He was very much loved by his family and friends and got the last laugh,
just like he wanted."
Business not a charity
Opinion: "A friend gave us a mirror no longer required," writes Errol. "It had a blemish down one side. Simple job to have a strip cut off one side, so off to the local glazier. Time to do job? - 30 seconds if you are slow. Cost? $10. This equates to $1200 per hour, or $48,000 for a 40 hour week, or a cool $2,496,000 per year without any overtime. Needless to say that in the good old days the tradesman would have said 'no charge', and they put it down to good will."
Sideswipe responds: Those monetary comparisons are kinda spurious there Errol ... unless this person's job was to cut straight bits of glass for 8 hours a day and there was enough straight bits of glass to keep him in constant work for a year. I'm sure they used some machine that they paid a heap for and maybe if you were a known customer they wouldn't have charged you. All in all I reckon $10 was a bargain for their time, expertise and specialist equipment.
Well, it gets you in the door
Author and public speaker Fran Lebowitz talked about race in a 1997 Vanity Fair interview, and said white people need to "seriously consider what it is like to be white. The advantage of being white is so extreme, so overwhelming, so immense, that to use the word 'advantage' at all is misleading ... "
