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They put ads for cars in your face when you're standing at a urinal. They put them on the side of buildings, buses, bus-stops, and in your mailbox. They come with your Visa bill, on the back of your receipts and under the windshield wiper of your car. I say go the whole hog and put advertisements
on tombstones. Let's see...if the average person has a family of 4 and an extended family of...say...15. And if 10% of this family comes to the cemetary even once a year...well you do the math. That's a lot of exposure for a product! And that doesn't include the people who visit cemetaries as a form of recreation or sociology students doing research. So I say lets slap up ads for florists, for lawyers, for lifestyle coaches and counselors, for...well the list goes on. "Death goes better with X Cola!" "Say it today with a diamond: because you can't take it with you when you go!" "I'm six feet under...but my X watch is still ticking!"
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No. Also, the 10% in your example would equal 1.9 people per year seeing the advertising....not worth it. |
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Or for Fred's Fishing Shop: "I can vouch for Fred's maggots, no bones about it!" |
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I'd rather roast in hell than drive a Ford. And if you know something of my employment history, that might be a little curious. |
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Coming soon to a theatre near you...Die Hard IV. |
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Lucy's Diner...I'd recommend it...just don't order the salmon bisque. |
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"Beautyrest mattresses. Hey, it's forever." |
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"Where in the world would you dig twenty feets underground for water when you can buy X's mineral water!" |
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Too disrespectful. Its the dead we're talking about here. I don't really consider this an advertizing goldmine. |
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Would work particularly well for tobacco advertising. |
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Actually, UB, that is almost correct. There is a real tombstone in Arizona that reads:
"Here lies Les Moore
Stopped by a slug from a 44
No less, no more. |
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(or are you trying to make an advertising change? If so, <<splat>>, it hit the wall over my head) |
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My high school buddy's tombstone (he died in a car wreck in his early 30's) has the typical info in the usual places. In the lower left hand corner is a very finely etched, exact copy of the label from a can of Budweiser beer. He wanted it that way. |
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entre, would that have been an alcohol-related accident? |
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Yep. He knew that it would probably get him, and he went to the trouble to stipulate the carving on his tombstone if he died after drinking and driving. |
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Rods: there's a kids horror writer called Tom B. Stone, but I think that might not be his real name. |
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This hole dug and filled by Metro Backhoe - grave diggers in the Metro Area since 1963.
Turf supplied by Green & Green - afterlifetime guarantee.
Casket is our top of the line Platinum Series lined with lush velvet - dial the number on the headstone to speak with a Sales Representative from Foreverest.
Need Brake adjustments? Log onto wishihadbrakes.com (AOL keyword - wishihadbrakes) to find your nearest dealer. |
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Deadeye Dick's Used Spares - specialising in tyres & steering wheels. |
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An affiliate of Deadeye Dick's Scrap Metal Inc. |
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Here lies the body of Thaddeus Jay
He died defending his right of way.
He was right--dead right--as he sped aling,
but he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong. |
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I was just thinking up an idea upon exactly the same lines. If a person agreed to this pre-mortem, then it could generate money for surviving relatives. |
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"I lived to x many years and ate x foodstuffs at least once a week" or
"I may be dead but it wasn't x product that killed me". |
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Well, it would allow the advertisers to let loose their morbid side... |
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