Pavarotti in "very serious condition"

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

Not if he were in his original glass sarcophogus, Caruso was on full view for several years (and apparently embalmed very well and looked good, as good as can be for a dead guy) Similarly, when Douglas Fairbanks Jr was interred at Hollywood Forever, he's in the Fairbanks crypt with his Dad, Doug Sr. A friend of mine worked for HF then and was there when they opened the crypt/sarcaphogus and the examined Doug Sr. and he looks as if they just planted him (he died in 1939, btw). Yet another piece of weird and useless trivia lurking in my brain.

Oh fine: I write a mirthful post and you have to go and destroy the frivolity of it with facts. I would never do anything like that - nope, never!

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Oh fine: I write a mirthful post and you have to go and destroy the frivolity of it with facts. I would never do anything like that - nope, never!

Always aiming to please is my motto

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

Always aiming to please is my motto

What's a motto?

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

What's a motto?

Main Entry: mot·to
Pronunciation: 'mä-(")tO
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural mottoes also mottos
Etymology: Italian, from Late Latin muttum grunt, from Latin muttire to mutter
1 : a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use
2 : a short expression of a guiding principle

Muttum: to grunt, that would be me