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2007-10-17 Iraq

As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 Welcome to the New Media, where every silver lining has its cloud.

In other news, the President spent 20 minutes today playing the the Presidential dog. However, animal experts worry the Presidential cat may not be receiving enough attention.

Posted by SteveS 2007-10-17 00:23|| 2007-10-17 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 D'quagmire, dammit! Depresed diggers decry a decrease in deceased!

Posted by twobyfour 2007-10-17 00:31|| http://www.twobyfour.info]">[http://www.twobyfour.info] 2007-10-17 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Do you think Harry and Nancy will pick up on this, or will they be clever enough to see the big picture?

Posted by Bobby 2007-10-17 06:56|| 2007-10-17 06:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Satire is dead.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2007-10-17 08:47|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2007-10-17 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe they can bury him.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2007-10-17 08:47|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2007-10-17 08:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Peace is Hell.

Posted by lotp 2007-10-17 09:15|| 2007-10-17 09:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Bird flu to the rescue!

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-17 09:44|| 2007-10-17 09:44|| Front Page Top

#8 maybe S-CHIP can cover them too?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-17 09:54|| 2007-10-17 09:54|| Front Page Top

#9 The SEIU better get over there and unionize these poor bastards...

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-17 10:17|| 2007-10-17 10:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Misses the hayday of the 90's, huh?

Gravedigger
What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?

Other
The gallows-maker, for that frame outlives a thousand tenants.

Posted by swksvolFF 2007-10-17 11:28|| 2007-10-17 11:28|| Front Page Top

#11 They miss the heyday of last year, when the bodies were piled up in the morgues. The '90s were feast or famine.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-17 11:47|| 2007-10-17 11:47|| Front Page Top

#12 They bitched and moaned about automation and Saddam using D9's to fill mass graves as well. Pay them no mind.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-10-17 11:52|| 2007-10-17 11:52|| Front Page Top

#13 Cry me a river. I was a defense worker when the Cold War ended. Life went on.

Just out of curiosity, are these grave diggers saying they can't get a job in construction???

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-10-17 12:35|| 2007-10-17 12:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Just out of curiosity, are these grave diggers saying they can't get a job in construction???

If society is very rigid, with little social mobility, and cast-like traditions of inherited jobs, this might go against their mentality.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-17 12:46|| 2007-10-17 12:46|| Front Page Top

#15 Maybe they could move to Gaza and help with the sewer reconstruction; six feet at a time....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-10-17 14:09|| 2007-10-17 14:09|| Front Page Top

#16 All humor aside this is great news.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-10-17 14:22|| 2007-10-17 14:22|| Front Page Top

#17 Heh. Death bubble.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-10-17 20:20|| 2007-10-17 20:20|| Front Page Top

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