On Mar/29/2021 at 20:49, David Spain wrote :
On 3/29/2021 12:18 PM, Snidely wrote:
/dps

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"First thing in the morning, before I have coffee, I read the obits,
If I'm not in it, I'll have breakfast." -- Carl Reiner, to CBS News in
2015.

Apropos of this (and nothing else):
A few decades back I used to have my clock radio set to a local AM
station that was local in every sense of the word. Not even a network
affiliated station. Anyway, sometime between the hours of 7:00am and
7:30am they would broadcast the local town obituaries. It occurred to me
one morning (as do all my best ideas, usually while I'm in the shower)
that if I knew of anyone who was as demented as I was to wake up to this
station, to phone in a fake obit for them... Something that would
definitely make your morning memorable....

I'm not sure if a respectable radio station would take an obit from a
random Joe. The one time I took care of such things, it was the funeral
home that sent the obit to the local newspapers. And the funeral home
wanted a body to start doing business, or more precisely, some paper
work telling them where they could go pickup the body and also showing
that I had some legal authority over that body. They told me that they
could not legally do much before they had that paper. The process might
be different in other jurisdiction.


Alain Fournier