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Best Euphemism for death and dying....

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oristarA
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 06:28 am
@tsarstepan,
A sky-told fate, infinite in reach, dooms all. Very Happy

Commies in China would always like to say "Visiting Marx." Laughing
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 10:13 am
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
A sky-told fate, infinite in reach, dooms all. Very Happy

Commies in China would always like to say "Visiting Marx." Laughing
Did thay dress for a HEATED climate ?
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 10:23 am
@oristarA,
I like those Buddhaesque (?) euphemisms.

Commies in China would always like to say "Visiting Marx."
Is quite funny because I bet it's said so earnestly.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 11:23 am
@tsarstepan,
tsarstepan wrote:
I like those Buddhaesque (?) euphemisms.

Commies in China would always like to say "Visiting Marx."
Is quite funny because I bet it's said so earnestly.
If so, then it is hypocrisy,
because commies r MATERIALISTS!





David
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 01:12 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
It's funny because they're supposed to be die hard atheists.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 04:12 pm
@tsarstepan,
tsarstepan wrote:
It's funny because they're supposed to be die hard atheists.
Yes; that 's taken together with their materialism.
Their revolution in 1917 was against both the Czar & the Russian Church.





David
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mismi
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 04:17 pm
"Pushing up Daisies" is kind of nice. At least it is beneficial...and daisies are such comforting happy flowers.
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oristarA
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2011 09:44 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
OmSigDAVID wrote:

oristarA wrote:
A sky-told fate, infinite in reach, dooms all. Very Happy

Commies in China would always like to say "Visiting Marx." Laughing
Did thay dress for a HEATED climate ?


It seems the opposite is true. During Great Leap woman even never-married girls were required bare to waist in heated field work in some communes for the purpose of "Running into Communist Society."
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MontereyJack
 
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Reply Sat 26 Nov, 2011 07:24 am
And there's the old verse-by-the-side-of-the-road signs:

Spring has sprung,
The grass has riz,
Where last year's
Careless drivers is.
Burma Shave.

Anyone under 60 will have absolutely no idea what that's all about.
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Sat 8 Dec, 2012 11:00 pm
I like: Hanging up your tennis shoes.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Sat 8 Dec, 2012 11:09 pm
@JLNobody,
Zombie thread rises from the dead.... Wink
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shua
 
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Reply Sun 2 Nov, 2014 02:31 pm
@firefly,
Going "the way of all flesh." Very biblical
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sun 2 Nov, 2014 03:54 pm

PEELING OFF their outer covering
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chai2
 
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Reply Sun 2 Nov, 2014 04:45 pm
Got on the starship Enterprise wearing a red shirt.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sun 2 Nov, 2014 09:11 pm
@chai2,
chai2 wrote:
Got on the starship Enterprise wearing a red shirt.
Is that Security and Engineering ?
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Rickoshay75
 
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Reply Sun 14 Dec, 2014 12:08 pm
@tsarstepan,


tsarstepan wrote:

Quote:
Weekend Competition: Kicking the Bucket
This weekend, co-vocabularists are invited to propose favorite (or novel) euphemisms for death.

All of us, one day, will be pushing up the daisies or going to meet our maker and we might as well be euphemistic when we finally give up the ghost.

Funereal flowers will be awarded for the most curious and unusual offerings.

http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/weekend-competition-kicking-the-bucket/?hp#preview

I submitted Dining out with maggots.


Here is a few more...

Bite the dust, walk the plank, blow out your candle. bite the bullet, take the plunge, go to hell, meet the devil, take your last breath...

Actually death is not as terrible as most think. When death is inevitable, there is no apprehension, no fear, no pain and the eerie realization that you are outside your body casually watching it happen. That was what happened to me several times, during falls, earthquakes, car crashes...
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Rickoshay75
 
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Reply Sun 28 Dec, 2014 05:22 pm
@tsarstepan,
tsarstepan wrote:

Quote:
Weekend Competition: Kicking the Bucket
This weekend, co-vocabularists are invited to propose favorite (or novel) euphemisms for death.

All of us, one day, will be pushing up the daisies or going to meet our maker and we might as well be euphemistic when we finally give up the ghost.

Funereal flowers will be awarded for the most curious and unusual offerings.

http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/weekend-competition-kicking-the-bucket/?hp#preview

I submitted Dining out with maggots.


There is also ---

Bit the dust

bought the farm

cashed in your chips

conked out

departed

final chapter
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Germlat
 
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Reply Sun 28 Dec, 2014 05:31 pm
@firefly,
The dirt nap...
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Thu 1 Jan, 2015 05:01 pm
@Germlat,
While rewatching The Trip (2010) tonight, one euphemism I never heard before, "He's brown bread."
glitterbag
 
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Reply Sat 18 Jun, 2016 03:31 am
@tsarstepan,
OK, this is an old thread, but perhaps we are all old......

So I'm heading to the people farm for my dirt nap.
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