# My Ex-Mother-In-Law Is DEAD! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 8, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494 "2006-11-08T00:51:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/41 "2006-11-09T20:36:59Z")
[QUOTE=Squeaker Snow] Hey, gang! It’s Thursday and she’s still dead. They buried her yesterday. Anybody up for a party on her grave? I’ll bring pie… 😉 [/QUOTE] Aw, c’mon. She’s dead now…the least you could do is offer her a drink. Of course, she’s not in a position to complain if you pass it through your kidneys first… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/42 "2006-11-09T20:42:02Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Helpful hint: If you salt the earth over her grave, nothing will grow there. Or you could plant some poison ivy. [/QUOTE] 😃 I really like those ideas. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/43 "2006-11-09T21:17:01Z")
Your confessions make me feel a little less weird about my reaction to a death many years ago. I was bullied by an utter shithead in grade school. I was a weak little girl, and he was a tough, craggy sadistic bastard. Years later, when there was a grade school reunion, I learned that he had died in a famous commercial plane crash near San Diego. I did a jig of joy at the reunion, and several classmates looked at me all asspants, figuring I was some sort of ghoul, I guess. Don’t care - I’m glad the asshole is dead. ---
**Author:** ![Squeaker\_Snow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Squeaker\_Snow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squeaker_Snow)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/44 "2006-11-09T22:15:05Z")
[QUOTE=LavenderBlue] 😃 I really like those ideas. [/QUOTE] Put salt on her grave? That is brilliant! Can we be best friends? Um, iodized or non? Don’t want her getting a posthumous goiter… ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/45 "2006-11-09T22:27:09Z")
Oh, you probably want sea salt, then. They sell many varieties that are flavored with spices and herbs. Garlic may be especially appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/46 "2006-11-09T22:36:21Z")
You know, the OP sounds like a bitter psycho. I mean, seriously. Let it go. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/47 "2006-11-09T23:21:58Z")
You know, that’s not the worst advice ever. She’d dead, you’re alive, you win - isn’t that enough? As Will Smith said, hate in your heart will consume you, too. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/48 "2006-11-10T00:01:01Z")
Ehh, sometimes a little catharsis ain’t bad. ---
**Author:** ![Squeaker\_Snow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Squeaker\_Snow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squeaker_Snow)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/49 "2006-11-10T01:22:18Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] You know, the OP sounds like a bitter psycho. I mean, seriously. Let it go. [/QUOTE] Oh yes, I’m a _bitter_, _bitter_, bitter psycho. And guess what? I’m not ashamed of it one little bit. So go try to “shame” somebody else… ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/50 "2006-11-10T01:41:13Z")
Umm, maybe I’m late to the party here, but…what’s the deal with your MiL? What did she do? I guess she must’ve been the subject of several spot-on Pit Threads, because the festive mood here is very unlike the SDMB I’m familiar with… ---
**Author:** ![Catwhisperer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Catwhisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catwhisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/51 "2011-12-05T22:02:31Z")
Thank YOU so much for your honesty and heartfelt feelings!!! My MIL died on Thursday and you said exactly what I have wanted to say but felt politically bound by protocols!!:mad: This woman turned my husband and children against me, I haven’t seen my middle son since he was 14 and he turns 30 next Thursday. I let this horrendous woman stay in my home for my oldest sons wedding 4 years ago because she was frail, on oxygen, and (sic) dying!! …but not quick enough it would appear and the agony of it all is as exactly as you say …All her family will tell you what a horrid woman she was, the awful things that she has done to someone even her own 2 children. But they will all be there crying for the woman that made them the miserable, cranky, selfish, self centered manipulating people they are today!!! …and all with the same motive THEIR INHERITANCE!!:smack: Thank you for being here today …I was about to send flowers out of respectful curtsey, gonna save my money…I’m NOT in the will !!:smack: ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/52 "2011-12-05T22:20:08Z")
Holy/damned Ex-Mother-In-Law-Zombie! ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/53 "2011-12-05T22:53:55Z")
> [@Catwhisperer](#): > > This woman turned my husband and children against me, I haven’t seen my middle son since he was 14 and he turns 30 next Thursday. Am I the only one who was confused to see Catwhisperer talking about her children? I assume not. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/54 "2011-12-05T23:52:40Z")
There was a brief moment of weird, untill I remembered the other Cat Whisperer has a space in her name. Sorry for your loss, Catwhisperer, I hope you’ll have a chance to reconnect with your middle son and other children will all this calms down. ---
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/55 "2011-12-06T00:59:04Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > There was a brief moment of weird, untill I remembered the other Cat Whisperer has a space in her name. > > Sorry for your loss, Catwhisperer, I hope you’ll have a chance to reconnect with your middle son and other children will all this calms down. Wha… Oh, okay. I was totally freaked out! Isn’t it odd to have names so close to one another? What is the name from, that two people would select it? Is it just the Dog Whisperer or the Horse Whisperer or whatever?! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/56 "2011-12-06T01:08:56Z")
It was originally from the movie “The Horse Whisperer” with Robert Redford, then the tv show “The Dog Whisperer” with Cesar Milano. I thought the idea of whispering to cats was funny - like they would actually listen or care. I can’t speak for my pseudo-clone. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/57 "2011-12-06T01:50:17Z")
When I saw this thread was from 2006, I started worrying that the OP’s MIL had come back from the dead. That would have been a nuisance I am sure. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/58 "2011-12-06T02:28:33Z")
> [@Squeaker\_Snow](#): > > Hey, gang! > > It’s Thursday and she’s still dead. They buried her yesterday. Anybody up for a party on her grave? I’ll bring pie… 😉 Dig it up, drive a stake through its heart, then nuke it from orbit. Its the only way to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/59 "2011-12-06T02:45:47Z")
> [@ataraxy22](#): > > When I saw this thread was from 2006, I started worrying that the OP’s MIL had come back from the dead. That would have been a nuisance I am sure. I would actually like the TC to let us know for sure that it was only the thread that was zombied, and not the actual MiL. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494/60 "2011-12-06T03:47:41Z")
Actually you should cut off the limbs and the head. You have bury each part in a different continent. Actually get different people to bury the parts and never reveal where. Just to make sure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-mother-in-law-is-dead/379494.md?page=4)