Futility Closet

Editorializing

Posted in Death, Humor by Greg Ross on July 14th, 2009

A marble-cutter, inscribing the words,–’Lord, she was thine’ upon a tombstone, found that he had not figured his spaces correctly and he reached the end of the stone one letter short. The epitaph therefore read:

‘Lord, she was thin.’

– Frederic William Unger, Epitaphs, 1904