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DEL.ICIO.USCan’t let this stay buried
We recommend sandy soil, and a bottle or two of Evian
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So there we were, in a hearing on a bill that would let owners of private cemeteries escape their scandal-plagued past and manage many of their own affairs.
A Republican lawmaker, very seriously, asked the head of a Georgia cemetery-owners group how deep they planted their clients. The General Assembly was examining a measure that mandated the burial of diseased chickens. The lawmaker needed advice.
The cemetery association guy, taken off-guard, cautiously explained that six-feet under is cultural fiction. No more than a line in a bad Western, the name of a defunct cable TV show, or a local restaurant.
In most cemeteries, the undead only have to claw through three to four feet of soil to escape.
To be fair, the cemetery guy is responsible only for the “three to four feet” part. The “undead” reference is pure speculation on our part. But we thought this was information you needed to know.
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