Years ago…..

When I was working on the ranch…..

With the biggest Texan, I ever met….


Big Tex dropped dead one afternoon.
Six men and a small boy managed to get him up on the flat bed, lashed
down and we drove him into town.
The funeral director came out and informed us that he had no casket
large enough for Big Tex.
Then we drove over to the piano factory to inspect shipping crates which
all came up short….

So we gave him an enema and buried him in a shoe-box….


"Mark W. James" wrote:

> In a message dated 2/21/2002 12:42:16 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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>> One of the last callers I heard (before leaving my car on getting
>> back to my office) has a business of custom-built caskets that sell
>> for less than the funeral home ones.  He pointed out that it
>> entirely is possible to build your own.  He even has a brochure that
>> tells people how to take care of the whole process yourself (I'm
>> guessing what he was describing involved essentially serving as your
>> own "funeral GC," managing the steps that others would do).
>
> I have actually seen where people have built their own caskets and
> used them for coffee tables and wine racks, until they were needed.
>
> Many years ago a Msgr. Hugo Pautler died in Clarkston, Washington.
> The Spokane Bishop gave a challenge to the Knights of Columbus to
> build a suitable casket for the Monsignor.  They did, and after his
> funeral, received 27 additional orders from parishioners who said, "If
> it's good enough for Monsignor, it's good enough for me."
> Mark