The Woodlawn Cemetery Tour

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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OK, I just talked to a Very Nice Lady at Woodlawn, and she said the regularly scheduled tours end this weekend. But! “If you have a group that wants to take a tour, we’ll arrange a special one for you! We have a great Entertainer’s Tour.” She said if we get as few as half-a-dozen people, she’ll be happy to arange to guide us. Woo-hoo!

So, who’s in, and what looks like a good date? I’ll be out of town the weekends of July 19, and August 23 & 30, but I can be there for any other summer weekend. How does, tentatively, Sunday, Aug. 3 or Sunday, Aug. 10 sound?

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My friend Fern says Aug. 10 is good for her (I’m asking non-Dopers, too, I hope that’s OK wit’ youse guys).

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Ukulele Ike says he thinks the 10th is good for him, too. Just to whet your appetite, here is a list of the celebs pushing up daisies at Woodlawn.

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. . . And now Billdo says the 10th looks good to him, too.

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Ooooh, the 10th is the day after my birthday! I can’t say for sure what that weekend will be like for me yet, but I would love to be there… please pencil me in!

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Eve, unfortunately I’m only in NYC once a year (every February for business), but I just turn green with envy every time I see one of your graveyard threads. I haven’t had a good cemetary fix in years. I used to live in Connecticut and we had the most fabulous old cemetaries. . . We MUST schedule one for next February that I can book my trip around!

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Can’t we got to that cemetry by the interborough…sorry jackie robinson parkway? That way we can watch idiots flip over as they take those hairpins at 80 :rolleyes:

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Sorry you can’t make this one, Marconi . . . Oxymoron says he’s in for the 10th (and I promise to call him StuyGuy all day, just to make amends).

Now just watch: I’ll call Woodlawn, and they’ll say, “Oh, the tenth? That’s the day we’re closed for grave-mound patting-down!”

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Why can’t any decent, interesting, famous people die and be buried in MIchigan.

You dopers just suck.

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Michigan, you said?

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I talked to Susan Olsen, the Nice Tour Lady, and she says she’s fine for Sunday, Aug. 120, at noon. It’s five bucks per person, and we’ll meet at the Jerome Avenue Gate, at the end of the #4 subway line.

So, who’s in for sure? She’s going to give us the Entertainer’s Tour, which should be, well, entertaining.

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Um, that’s the 20th of August, not the 120th . . .

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I mean Sunday. August. Tenth!!

There! I think I finally got it right . . .

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Ooohhh, look at this poor little fella who died at the offices of Met Life trying to evade a group of women who were trying to give him a birthday kiss, and he ends up falling and dying on an ink eraser. :frowning:

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He was only 16!

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I’m in :slight_smile:

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Well, so far we have non-Dopers Michael, Fern, maybe Brenda and hubby, maybe Thea and the Barbie Twins; and Dopers Ike, Billdo, Oxymoron, NotWithoutRage, maybe Sunfish . . .

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I live right there, so count me in for this one. I was dying (harhar) to go to the last one, but couldn’t make it. I might bring one buddy along.

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Oh, goodie—the more, the, ummm, “merrier.”

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How long befor do you need to know that I’m coming? (please do not insert a very lewd joke here) I mean Aug 10 is like asking me what am I doing on July 7th 2017.

I could however tell you what I’m doing on any other day in 2017.