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Posted 04 December 2009 - 10:39 AM
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What is the most touching, fitting, or otherwise remarkable celebrity gravesite you've ever seen?
For me it is the one for Charles Schulz.
For me it is the one for Charles Schulz.
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Posted 04 December 2009 - 11:09 AM
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It's about time you started grave shopping! 
Some quotes are funny: "A sandwich takes maybe two minutes to assemble -- three if you can't find a clean knife, four at worst if you're stricken with carpal tunnel." ~ NumberSix
Some quotes are profound: "I agree with what I said before." ~ Mara Jade Skywalker
And some quotes make you wonder what in the **** you just read: "look, we know we shag wee boys, but the beatles are ok now so it's cool." ~ Boba Sweat
Ender's reaction to every movie ever made except for The Big Lebowski: "This movie sucked."
Some quotes are profound: "I agree with what I said before." ~ Mara Jade Skywalker
And some quotes make you wonder what in the **** you just read: "look, we know we shag wee boys, but the beatles are ok now so it's cool." ~ Boba Sweat
Ender's reaction to every movie ever made except for The Big Lebowski: "This movie sucked."
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Posted 04 December 2009 - 12:08 PM
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The only celebrity grave I have ever seen in person is Gerald Ford's. I really have nothing to compare it to, celebrity-wise.
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Posted 04 December 2009 - 04:27 PM
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YES!!!! I love looking at celebrity graves and graves in general. I love going to cemetaries and reading headstones and stuff 
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Posted 04 December 2009 - 11:54 PM
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This has to be the most beautiful memorial in Australia.
This grave, one of the most extraordinary in the country, is often called 'Australia's Taj Mahal'. However, it was built not by a grieving Indian Prince, but by a Melbourne doctor.
Annie Springthorpe was just thirty when she died in childbirth. Her grave was designed, and made, by the leading artists of the day. The sculptural tableau of Annie with her attendant angels was the work of none other than Sir Bertram MacKennal, possibly the most renowned sculptor of his day.
But the elaborate tomb, at the Boroondara Cemetery in Kew, was so extravagant that some refused to believe it was for love alone. Rumours persist to this day that Annie's family had arranged her estate so that her husband could only spend money to perpetuate her memory. Folklore has it that he blew the lot on this one grandiose monument, so that nobody go any money. Either way, whether you believe the romantic or the cynical view, it's a remarkable tribute to Annie Springthorpe, who was born on Australia Day 26 January, married on 26 January and buried on 26 January.
exterior of the vault:
stunning shot of the vault illuminated by the purpose built stained glass dome:
close up of the grave:
beautiful statuary:
the dome:
inscription plaque:
another stunning shot:
the rear of the vault:
This grave, one of the most extraordinary in the country, is often called 'Australia's Taj Mahal'. However, it was built not by a grieving Indian Prince, but by a Melbourne doctor.
Annie Springthorpe was just thirty when she died in childbirth. Her grave was designed, and made, by the leading artists of the day. The sculptural tableau of Annie with her attendant angels was the work of none other than Sir Bertram MacKennal, possibly the most renowned sculptor of his day.
But the elaborate tomb, at the Boroondara Cemetery in Kew, was so extravagant that some refused to believe it was for love alone. Rumours persist to this day that Annie's family had arranged her estate so that her husband could only spend money to perpetuate her memory. Folklore has it that he blew the lot on this one grandiose monument, so that nobody go any money. Either way, whether you believe the romantic or the cynical view, it's a remarkable tribute to Annie Springthorpe, who was born on Australia Day 26 January, married on 26 January and buried on 26 January.
exterior of the vault:
stunning shot of the vault illuminated by the purpose built stained glass dome:
close up of the grave:
beautiful statuary:
the dome:
inscription plaque:
another stunning shot:
the rear of the vault:
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Posted 04 December 2009 - 11:55 PM
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Now this is a very cute gravestone ensemble, wouldn't you agree? It belongs to billiards champion Walter Lindrum who, to quote Don Chambers in "The Melbourne General Cemetery" (p.72) says Lindrum's "prowess with the cue once overawed competitors around the globe. So dominant was Lindrum in the international world of billiards, that the rules of the game were amended to give his opponents a sporting chance."
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Posted 05 December 2009 - 08:44 AM
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Sulis, on 5 Dec 2009, 12:54 AM, said:
it's a remarkable tribute to Annie Springthorpe, who was born on Australia Day 26 January, married on 26 January and buried on 26 January.
Married on her 20th birthday, died on her 30th. CREEPY.
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Posted 05 December 2009 - 06:54 PM
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isn't it? personally I have never been to that gravesite but hope to soon. It's been far too long since I went on a cemetary walk.
For me to even be a size 14, I have to live a diet 24/7 365 days a year forever. And seriously I can’t be f##cked anymore. I’ve done the bulemia, the Weight Watchers, the diet shakes, every fad diet under the sun, and after 43 years of fighting who I am, I don’t give a fat rats clacker what anybody thinks of me anymore or what society thinks I should be.
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