# Uncle Miltie's Funeral

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-milties-funeral/101563>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 3, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-milties-funeral/101563 "2002-04-03T08:15:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-milties-funeral/101563/1 "2002-04-03T08:15:35Z")

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Anybody catch any quotes from this? I caught a few [here](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=796&ncid=799&e=12&u=/eo/20020403/en_celeb_eo/uncle_miltie_s_uproarious_sendoff):

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> “Milton, Lorna, I would like to be paid for this.” - Don Rickles
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> “It is always a challenge to follow Don Rickles. He is the greatest argument against human cloning.” - Red Buttons
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> “Being around Milton, I got to hear the best jokes in the world, and I want to thank Shecky Green and the late Henny Youngman for those.” - Richard Moll

There were others. What a send-off! Reminds me of Terry Gilliam’s funeral…

Esprix

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-milties-funeral/101563/2 "2002-04-03T16:52:54Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Esprix \*  
> **Reminds me of Terry Gilliam’s funeral…**

Which, unless the biographies I’m finding are wrong, will be sometime in the relatively distant future? Or did I miss something?

Jeeze, don’t do this to me!

BTW, are there any autopsy photos confirming Berle’s, ummmmm, _reputation?_

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**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-milties-funeral/101563/3 "2002-04-03T17:24:16Z")

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Sorry - Graham Chapman. Blah.

I’m still waiting on confirmation that Miltie was bisexual, but that may never come…

Esprix

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-milties-funeral/101563/4 "2002-04-03T17:59:35Z")

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I think that he and his penis have requested that they be buried side by side, if that’s what you’re asking.

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**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-milties-funeral/101563/5 "2002-04-04T02:29:30Z")

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Maybe _that’s_ why the raincoat was draped over the casket.

I hear the eulogy was “borrowed” from Jack Benny’s funeral. _Groan._

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-milties-funeral/101563/6 "2002-04-04T10:51:51Z")

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I keep thinking of Krusty the Klown’s funeral. “We’ll be sitting shiva at 8pm and again at 10. You’ll have to be 18 for the 10pm…it gets a little blue.”