The family is looking into whether Thompson’s cremated remains can be blasted out of a cannon, a wish the gun-loving writer often expressed, Brinkley said.
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We have a phrase over here in the UK.
“Only in america”. As in “Only in america can ..”
I keep telling my wife I want to be flung from a trebuchet to the tune of Procul Harem’s “Whiter Shade of Pale”. She thinks I’m kidding.
I think it would look and sound great. In slow motion. I guess I can’t change life’s FPS.
Not just a cannon. A 150-foot cannon shaped like the gonzo fist.
Almost as good as the one I read years ago, that I now wish I had clipped. The guy being buried had been a janitor at the funeral parlor where he was going to be buried. He left explicit instructions for his casket to be standing up - because he did not want anybody looking down on him, now that he was dead. The image has stayed with me for years and always makes me smile.