Full Moon?

[flipnflap]

is it a full moon today?

[humbersloop]

they both look like good bits of kit zac, suppose its down to personal preference

...wot, always empty, or clears when he arrives?... ;)

[bookbinder]

Well, paddy, what else could it be called? Being sunk at sea? People would think that the dear departed had gone down with the ship.

[humbersloop]

^^cross posted!

[Tilly2]

Paddy, if you think of all the things you can be buried under............mudslide, avalanche, snowfall, volcanic lava etc, you don't have to dig holes for them.

[paddywak]

Well bookbinder this has always been the been the arguement being as I'm a member of the "when your dead you're dead" brigade I'm not really bothered what they do or what they call it but some of the "After Lifers" get very up set.

[humbersloop]

yes, but "disposal of human remains in a maritime environment" might not be quite as comforting a description to those left

[paddywak]

Quite right tilly but with a body ,in the sense of the discussion, burial implies a deliberate means of getting rid of the body, not something that happened by accident as in a landslide or avalanche.

[Tilly2]

Gone to Davey Jones' Locker sounds alright.

[Zacs-Master]

Who's round is it?

[Tilly2]

Paddy, I was just saying that the word 'burial' does not necessarily mean digging a hole, putting something in and covering it up.

That's what I'd be saying in the pub, anyway.

[paddywak]

Zac, that's a question that's certain to keep the arguement going.

[Tilly2]

I think it's your round, Zacs. I'll have another white wine but a large one this time...........and a packet of pork scratchings please.

[paddywak]

No problem tilly this particular discussion has been going on for more years then I can remember and it is regularly "resurrected" a couple of times a year.

[paddywak]

And by the way zacI forgot to add mines a pint of cider and a packet of crisps please.

[Tilly2]

Is it because the people who believe they will be resurrected think that the sea will not relinquish their bodies at the time of the Second Coming?

[humbersloop]

a guy we know through sailing's an undertaker.

He's done one burial at sea and thought he had it calculated to the nth degree - you have to weight the foot of the coffin for a proper entry, apparently. Sadly, he hadn't quite, so said coffin went in, then shot back up again vertically and bobbed about a bit before finally disappearing.

He'll only scatter ashes at sea now

[Zacs-Master]

A large white wine and pork scratchings eh (pretentious tendencies but grounded at heart).

Bury / buried
1
: to dispose of by depositing in or as if in the earth; especially : to inter with funeral ceremonies
2
a : to conceal by or as if by covering with earth
b : to cover from view

[Tilly2]

We went to China two years ago and cruised the Yangtze River. We were sitting on our balcony having a drink before dinner and a bloated, purplish,body floated past the ship. It was a horrible sight.

[Zacs-Master]

Pint of cider and a packet of crisps (country bumpkin who bankers for his childhood). See, you can tell a lot from a persons drink / snack combo)

[Zacs-Master]

And you still eat pork scratchings Tilly !