# Show us Something Cool About Your Place **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832 "2025-05-26T23:45:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/41 "2025-05-31T01:00:32Z")
You’re going to add hand rails to those stairs, right? I don’t want to rain on your cool handiwork, but stairs like that scare the hell out of me, after my mother-in-law died after falling backwards off her rail-less stairs and hitting her head on the sidewalk. ---
**Author:** ![moes\_lotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@moes\_lotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moes_lotion)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/42 "2025-05-31T01:49:32Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > You’re going to add hand rails to those stairs, right? Absolutely, just thinking about what materials to use. I would have made the stairs less steep but was constrained by not wanting to block the flagstone path. The local building code requires railings on each side because of the width of the stairs. So sorry to hear about your mother-in-law’s tragic demise. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/43 "2025-05-31T04:15:04Z")
@moes_lotion , love those railway rails bookends. Very cool! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/44 "2025-05-31T12:59:42Z")
I love the bookends too! I have to admit, my first thought was, “Professor Plum, in the library, with a bookend…” 😵 ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/45 "2025-05-31T13:42:37Z")
Is there a reason the rain barrels couldn’t be next to the house ? (Looks cool though !) ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/46 "2025-05-31T17:46:19Z")
Another feature of our house is this tomb in the backyard. One of the occupants drowned in 1904 trying to pull his beloved from the river. They both perished. Every year on or about the anniversary, we host a party where we drown our sorrows. I create a new cocktail for the party each year. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/ldwZDKi.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/u2DEjx5) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/47 "2025-05-31T17:48:39Z")
Threadwinner! I am so jealous. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/48 "2025-05-31T17:50:12Z")
The cocktails have been hit or miss. But last year, someone from the family showed up out of the blue and asked to see the tomb, he had the same name as the person we celebrate at our parties; I chickened out telling him about our festivities. ---
**Author:** ![moes\_lotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@moes\_lotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moes_lotion)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/49 "2025-06-01T02:13:09Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > Is there a reason the rain barrels couldn’t be next to the house ? The lot is narrow, so there isn’t room at either of the back corners of the house for the barrels. We got a landscaper to design the layout and he suggested the position, they’re about 1/3 of the way from the back of the house to the back of the lot. ---
**Author:** ![moes\_lotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@moes\_lotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moes_lotion)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/50 "2025-06-01T02:13:51Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Another feature of our house is this tomb in the backyard. That is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/51 "2025-06-01T02:20:17Z")
If you ever kill somebody put the body under there. The cops will _never_ think to look there. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/52 "2025-06-01T03:26:32Z")
Besides cocktails, you could add Satanic rituals. Yes, yes, yes; bad taste! Warm up the handbasket for me. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/53 "2025-06-01T11:01:22Z")
Fair enough ! 👍 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/54 "2025-06-01T11:20:31Z")
I’m thinking of the overnight goat party / ceremony for the PAGANs in the _Dragnet_ movie: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vzNIhoSdlW4/maxresdefault.jpg "Dragnet (1987) - The Pagan Event (The Sacrifice)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzNIhoSdlW4) We’re gonna need a bigger basket. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/55 "2025-06-01T12:32:19Z")
Wow that’s pretty wild and very unique! ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/56 "2025-06-01T18:22:31Z")
Here’s the thread where the awesome Dope helped me find the exact date of their deaths. My wife was very impressed with how quickly the Dope found it. Our party is next week. > [@Trying to find the date of death for this individual](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-date-of-death-for-this-individual/966469): > > Can anyone help me find the date of the death of the individual in this find a grave entry? Everything I find online mentioned that he drowned in Antietam Creek in 1904, but I haven’t found the date of the incident. The entry seems to be taken from a newspaper, but I can’t find the original source. “Mr. Will Rust, son of Mr. N. A. Rust, of Hagerstown, was drowned in Antietam Creek, near that city, on Saturday night about 10 o’clock. Mr. Rust, accompanying a young lady, Miss Gladys Anna Bright,… ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/57 "2025-06-01T19:14:06Z")
A hundred and twenty one years later, people all over the world are reading this and thinking about Will and Gladys. I bet they didn’t foresee that when they were putting their shoes on that morning. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/58 "2025-06-01T19:39:07Z")
We call the party Billy Rust Day and the cocktail always pay homage to them: the garnish will include a capsized canoe (orange peel, mint leaf etc.) and two berries to represent the drowned lovers. At the end of the night someone drinks a bud lite to commemorate how they died because a bud light is a lot like sex in a canoe: fucking close to water. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/59 "2025-06-02T20:45:29Z")
That is a GIANT-ass tomb. Delightfully bad taste all around. I approve. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832/60 "2025-06-03T21:02:08Z")
This is a picture taken from our deck with a cell phone. No zoom. That’s Mount Bross. 14000 feet. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/HzoUZq1.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/mount-bross-from-deck-peLlutc) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-something-cool-about-your-place/1018832.md?page=4)