Jamoca Almond Chip used to be the number one flavor at Baskin-Robbins. I haven’t been to one of their shops in decades, so I don’t know it’s still around.
Are you thinking of Jamoca Almond Fudge? (Asking, no snark)
Yes! I said it had been a long time…
I scooped quite a bit of that back in the day. There’s a BR31 in my town; maybe I should stop in and see if they still have it.
They had about a dozen flavors that all stores had to carry, and rotated others.
People being murdered by placing a pillow over their face. Are pillows that dangerous? Are both sides of a pillow good for murdering people or is one side for murdering and the other side for sleeping on? Do people actually die because they roll over in their sleep and their pillow kills them?
The end of the world or some other disaster causes an estranged couple to reconcile (2012, Greenland, San Andreas). In reality - “Sir…is there anyone else you would like to take with you to the secret asteroid-proof shelter?” “Ummmmm…nope.”
Yes, they do, which is why it’s vital to make sure the correct side of your pillow is up before going to sleep. Many, many cases of “died in their sleep” could have been avoided had people put the correct side of the pillow up.
Or bad guys shooting at you with machine guns.
Now I’m picturing something like a claymore.
A funeral will almost always occur during a rainstorm. The mourners will all be carrying black umbrellas.
And watching from the distance, there will be a lone figure in black, or in a trenchcoat, or in a black trenchcoat.
And the funerals always take place at the freshly-dug grave site where the coffin is lowered into the ground, and there’s an emotional moment where people take turns throwing roses or ceremonial scoops of dirt into the grave, often filmed upward from coffin-view.
I’ve been to my share of funerals in my lifetime, and there’s usually a church ceremony, the procession from the church to the cemetery, then another ceremony in the cemetery chapel, and then on to a luncheon where there may be some reminiscing. I’ve never been to a funeral that had the coffin-lowering ceremony at the actual burial site. Is that a real-life thing that I’ve just somehow missed, or is that just a TV / movie convention?
… And the only part of the cemetery where the rain is coming down is over the grave. Everywhere else, the Sun is shining brightly.
I’ve only been to a handful of funerals but the one for my college roommate had us at the gravesite, throwing dirt on top. (It was a Jewish funeral and that’s part of the custom, apparently.)
And there is one mysterious person no one knows standing on the knoll overlooking the funeral.
BTW, one thing I noticed with movie/TV show funerals and other things that show a hole dug in the ground, is how absolutely square and straight the holes are. Every time I tried to dig a hole, it ended up an irregular mess, though that may be because the soil where I grew up was so rocky, it just wasn’t possible to make a clean hole.
If it turns out to be a cop, he’ll take advantage of the situation to approach the widow (it’s always a widow) and further his investigation.
I’ve been to a lot of funerals – many when I was an altar boy and, sadly, in recent years, many of relatives and people I’ve known. There certainly is a grave-side ceremony where people will usually place flowers on the coffin. Thy usually “dress up” the site with Astro-turf-like fake grass covering the new excavation and dirt, and often with a tent-like pavilion near the grave (nobody has to carry those black umbrellas, should it rain). More often than not, I’ve seen the coffin suspended on canvas tethers on a four-sided tubular thing that sits around the gravesite. When everyone leaves they hit a release and two of the tubes rotate, letting the canvas tethers slowly unfurl and gradually lower the coffin into the grave.
YMMV
If the stiff was a hit, the mobster(s) responsible will be among the mourners.
That’s a fair description of my Grandpa’s funeral, complete with some throwing in of random items onto the coffin, along with a few shovels of soil. There was a service inside first, then the ‘ashes to ashes’ bit with coffin lowering outside in the graveyard.
Sadly no-one showed up standing mysteriously half out of view in a long black coat and veil though. Given that he may have still been legally married at the time- something we’re still not sure about- I feel that was a missed opportunity.
Were you using a mechanized trench-digger?