Here lie the bones of the Boings

Gareth Branwyn sent this to me, via Candi Strecker.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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novium

Dang, Elisa was a long-lived lady. It’s astounding to think of both the breadth and depth of the economic, social, cultural, and technological shifts she must have witnessed over the course of her life.
- rattypilgrim
  
  Really. Her father might have been a civil war soldier and she lived long enough to curse those damned hippies.
  - novium
    
    going with the assumption that she was an American (she seems to have lived for awhile and died at least in Ohio), she would have lived through the fall of reconstruction *and* seen the civil rights movement.
    - rattypilgrim
      
      Yes, true. Even though we are repeatedly told how fast changes happen in our “modern” lives I think people of her generation who lived long enough experienced bigger changes, socially and technology-wise than people who have lived post WW II, even including the birth of the internet.
      - novium
        
        Very true. There have been a lot of technological and social changes over the last 70 years or so, but at the same time, the world of 70 years past is recognizable (in the sense of just kind of intuitively understanding how it works, fitting familiar patterns) than that of 100 or 125 years ago.
http://twitter.com/jmck John McKenzie

It’s really too bad they shared a headstone instead of having adjoining plots.
dcorbett

Too bad that William’s middle initial wasn’t B.
- awjt
  
  But you gotta admit “Bill E. Boing” was a pretty sweet name to have.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    I wonder if he was a jolly swagman.
    - Lee Brown
      
      No. That was Bill E. Boyle
BombBlastLightingWaltz

Oy. When your last memories are being the point of a, nice, joke, you know your glad to be amoung the dead.
malindrome

They contracted a terminal case of Wonderful Things.
irksome

Geez kids, I didn’t even know you weren’t feeling well.

I woulda brought soup.
rattypilgrim

Then there was the Gerald McBoing-Boing branch of the family.
niktemadur

Pasqual is a proper first name. Pasqual Boing was a late-seventies Mexican soft drink brand, with flavors such as Tamarind and Guava.

So the boy shall be named Pasqual Tamarind Boing
The girl shall be named Pasqual Guava Boing
D. Keith Higgs

Dorothy “Dot” Net needs to be interred right of them.