California inventor Donald Scruggs came up with the idea, and now has a patent for it. From the patent application: "[the] burial containers...provide low cost internment methods with hermetic sealing, security locking, plaque and memorial markers and built in flower and flag receptacles." Nice.
But you're screaming, "why?" Good question. Again, from the patent application: "[the coffins] greatly reduce excavation labor and burial costs...they also decrease the land space required for each burial and provide for burials in normally unused areas within the cemetery."
The image that keeps creeping nightmarishly into my mind is that of a giant, robotic Bugs Bunny, lurching into these now densely packed graveyards and uprooting the giant metallic carrots, one by one.;D
I think this thread is at an end.-cranioscopical (May 17, 2011, 09:25 AM)
I think this thread is at an end.-cranioscopical (May 17, 2011, 09:25 AM)
He called it dead!-Renegade (May 17, 2011, 10:47 AM)
Screw that! I'm dying for more.-mwb1100 (May 17, 2011, 02:49 PM)
No need to get excited, it's only worm gear.-cranioscopical (May 17, 2011, 04:29 PM)
Does that mean the Early Bird will (finally) get screwed?-Stoic Joker (May 17, 2011, 06:20 PM)
Does that mean the Early Bird will (finally) get screwed?-Stoic Joker (May 17, 2011, 06:20 PM)
In the case of flyers, for the sake of completeness, you'd probably drill a pilot whole.-cranioscopical (May 18, 2011, 03:31 AM)
I'm pretty sure I saw this posted here on DC before, but I can't find the thread.
But while searching for it, I noticed a high correlation between the word "screw" (and its variants) and Apple topics. :-\-Deozaan (May 22, 2011, 09:22 PM)
Optimist :P!-barney (May 27, 2011, 07:25 PM)
Oh, ye gods ... some of the worst pundits in the world have aggregated in/on one (1) thread :o. Is there any hope for salvation :P?-barney (May 27, 2011, 06:32 PM)
Oh, ye gods ... some of the worst pundits in the world have aggregated in/on one (1) thread :o. Is there any hope for salvation :P?-barney (May 27, 2011, 06:32 PM)
Possibly, but you'll have to wait your turn…-cranioscopical (May 27, 2011, 10:35 PM)
We're taking turns :huh:? Where's the fun in that :P?-barney (May 27, 2011, 11:02 PM)
We're taking turns :huh: Where's the fun in that tongue?-barney (May 27, 2011, 11:02 PM)
Are you trying to make some kind of pitch here? If so, we'll have to counter… and sink it.-cranioscopical (May 28, 2011, 10:24 AM)
I wouldn't dare ... too many plot twists :D.-barney (May 28, 2011, 11:48 AM)
Are you trying to make some kind of pitch here? If so, we'll have to counter… and sink it.-cranioscopical (May 28, 2011, 10:24 AM)
I wouldn't dare ... too many plot twists :D.-barney (May 28, 2011, 11:48 AM)
Heh heh. I just hope Henry James doesn't turn up as a zombie.-MilesAhead (May 28, 2011, 03:09 PM)
Or would it be an up-turning?-barney (May 28, 2011, 03:53 PM)
thread wars, left or right ... I can imagine the zealots lining up now-barney (May 28, 2011, 05:51 PM)
thread wars, left or right ... I can imagine the zealots lining up now-barney (May 28, 2011, 05:51 PM)
That could take a while to taper off.-cranioscopical (May 28, 2011, 07:15 PM)
I dread hearing the phillip-ics from both sides.-MilesAhead (May 28, 2011, 07:55 PM)
Actually, I'm feelin' kinda hexed.-barney (May 28, 2011, 11:43 PM)
Actually, I'm feelin' kinda hexed.-barney (May 28, 2011, 11:43 PM)
Talk to MilesAhead as helix his wounds!-cranioscopical (May 29, 2011, 08:59 AM)
So now the Mafia can join the boy scouts with the joint motto of one good turn a day?-Fred Nerd (May 29, 2011, 05:48 PM)
Like the man said...-MilesAhead (May 29, 2011, 07:03 PM)
Like the man said...-MilesAhead (May 29, 2011, 07:03 PM)
You're not going to plug that old thing, are you?-cranioscopical (May 29, 2011, 07:54 PM)
http://www.phillips-screw.com/history_about_phillips.htm-MilesAhead (May 29, 2011, 08:34 PM)