# Ok then ,how many ways can we say dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846 "2000-03-16T23:09:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/1 "2000-03-16T23:09:00Z")
My contribution: Taking a dirt nap. * * * Yours truly, aha ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/2 "2000-03-16T23:11:00Z")
Kicking the oxygen habit. ---
**Author:** ![M2Lepton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@M2Lepton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/M2Lepton)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/3 "2000-03-16T23:12:00Z")
muerto ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/4 "2000-03-16T23:18:00Z")
Pushing up daisies. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/5 "2000-03-16T23:19:00Z")
Bought a farm. Dropped off the twig. ---
**Author:** ![TripleAnt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@TripleAnt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TripleAnt)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/6 "2000-03-16T23:37:00Z")
## With help from George Carlin: Expire like a magazine subscription “I have a lot of good ideas, problem is most of them suck.” -George Carlin ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/7 "2000-03-16T23:42:00Z")
Anyone else have the Month Python ‘Parrot’ skit running through their head now? I know I do. This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! He has expired and gone to meet his maker! This is a late parrot! It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If he hadn’t fallen off the perch he would be pushing up the daisies! This is an ex-parrot! – Sylence * * * “Excuse me, are you reading Torah and eating crayons?” ---
**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/8 "2000-03-17T00:18:00Z")
In the arms of angels ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/9 "2000-03-17T00:20:00Z")
“And the quarterback is toast!” * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/10 "2000-03-17T00:30:00Z")
From the British and Commonwealth military of the First World War: “Gone West” (interesting posible mytholigical connections?); “Become a landowner in France” (i.e. six feet of it); “Napoo” (Tommy’s pidgin French [N’en plus, or “there is no more”] applied equally to jam, booze or an individual); “Had his number on it” (ref. the legendary bullet or shell); From earlier Royal Naval times: “Lost the number of his mess” (lower-deck usage c. 1800); From WWII: “Gone for a Burton” (RAF slang) * * * **Launcher may train without warning.** ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/11 "2000-03-17T00:45:00Z")
Sleeps with the fishes. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/12 "2000-03-17T00:48:00Z")
_high-fives Sylence_ **He’s run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choire invisible!!** 😃 * * * **Coldfire** _Voted **Poster Most Likely To Post Drunk** _ * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/13 "2000-03-17T00:49:00Z")
Cashed in his chips. ---
**Author:** ![Euri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e57/32.png) [@Euri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euri)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/14 "2000-03-17T00:50:00Z")
Tot ## **loves german 😃** One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious _Carl Jung_ ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/15 "2000-03-17T00:52:00Z")
“He’s snuffed it.” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/16 "2000-03-17T01:30:00Z")
Kaput * * * _Eschew Obfuscation_ ---
**Author:** ![Euri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e57/32.png) [@Euri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euri)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/17 "2000-03-17T01:34:00Z")
## Kaput means broken…not dead:P One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious _Carl Jung_ ---
**Author:** ![KCB615](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/18 "2000-03-17T04:20:00Z")
Way back when, I remember a Johnny Carson skit of a eulugy for an employee at Roget’s Thesaurus, he went on for about 5 minutes giving names for death. Unfortunately, it was a very long time ago, and I don’t remember all of them. The only two I do remember: Doing the worm wave at stiff stadium Taking a ride in the six handled sedan ## Give me a while, I might be able to find them somewhere in internet land… Jeremy… Nobody ever calls me after they’ve done something smart. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/19 "2000-03-17T04:40:00Z")
Worm Farm His bus don’t stop here no more. Watching the grass grow-from below * * * Cecil said it. I believe it. That settles it. ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846/20 "2000-03-17T04:44:00Z")
In my best Cary Grant, ‘Mr.Lucky’ style, “He’s bought the circus” * * * “Honestly now, Chaplain, you wouldn’t want your sister to marry an enlisted man, would you?” “My sister IS an enlisted man, sir” the chaplain replied. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-then-how-many-ways-can-we-say-dead/14846.md?page=2)