Diamond Lil by Brett Koth for July 27, 2024

Looked good for a dead guy.

Better than real life, maybe?

I never cared for open caskets or “viewings”. I mean, they never look like the person actually looked yet people always say stuff like, “She looks so natural.” Why do we do it? Do we not trust that they’re really dead? Gotta make sure they’re really in the box?

That mortician does a good job. They usually stay dead when he works on them.

He looked gone but not forgotten!!!

His comment is dead on!

like a doornail (dead as a doornail)

He’s at peace. Warren Peace…

(¬_¬)

If they tell me he’s dead, I believe ‘em. Nobody’s ever shown up a few weeks later and said, “I can’t believe that you didn’t come looking for me!”

And I’m sure Lil had some words to share about the dearly departed. Thank You Lil

For the few I’ve seen, they always look like they’ve had way too many Botox procedures …!

( tighten up! )

no truer words were ever spoken - the first open casket I ever saw was a 1st-grade fellow student. My dad took me as she and I were friends and I couldn’t understand what happened to make her dead. when I saw her lying there I simply said to my dad – “that’s not her” he knew what I meant and we had a long conversation about when someone dies. not really what you would call “funny” but I have performed several funerals over the years for various people of various backgrounds and faiths. the few that were “open casket” just “didn’t look like them” because they looked “pretty darn dead”. life is precious IF we know how to truly live it right. js

Ms Swan (from MAD TV) might say, “He look-a like a man.”

I laughed out loud.

surprisingly dead-like…?