When I die I want to have
a post-mortem photo taken
of me for posterity, just
as they did in the Victorian Age
***
My family gathered around me.
Everybody in great sorrow.
***
But-I want the photo
to be taken at one of
those old-timey photo
studios like, they have
at the wharf,
***
So if anyone asks what became of me
***
My family can say
I died, … long ago,
back in the days of
the Old West.
.
2.
Taken circa 1972 at Columbia State Historic Park in Columbia, CA.
Can you spot me?
t r e f o l o g y 
Just like Emilio Estevez
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A movie we went to the cinema to see twice, if I am not mistaken. Thanks, Bob
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Thanks. I needed a chuckle this morning☺️
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Thank you Ms Rugby of the 843
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Yes, just like the Victorians…….
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I have always been more of an Edwardian, myself, though that period lasted barely a decade. Thanks, Don.
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We have lots of Edwardian furniture. Just love it……
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Hail hath no fury like a photo mourned.
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One way or the other my absence will be missed! And thanks, E Sum
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An ambiguity of posterity suits you.
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As does a six-shooter, cowboy hat and spurs that go jingle jangle jingle. Thanks, Pam
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I must be tired today…somehow…this made complete sense!
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Well, of course, it does. Everything I write has been first verified as true by me. Thanks, Max.
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Well Tref how could I ever doubt you?
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I live in Victoria and read The Age newspaper. But is it the Victorian Age?
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Melbourne might have a thought about that. Thanks, VC
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I think it would be a tad filled with difficulties. 😂
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I think my family is up for the lie. Thanks, Sadje.
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You’re welcome 👍🏼
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https://pin.it/7zs3gNF
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Good looking chap, what. Thanks, M. That is very awesome.
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Would you, then, die with your boots on?
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I will say this, no cowboy of any worth would have ever let himself be buried in Sketchers.
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:D :D You are right.
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George Raymond, way back when: https://pin.it/4UH6k46
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Had I known my photo was going to be aged I would have switched out my glasses for a monocle.
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You’d look good with a monocle. It occurs to me that perhaps you don’t want your picture on Pinterest where apparently it ended up — I can delete it, both of them if you want.
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Haha are you kidding me? I love it, Mich. Thanks, again.
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Oh, good, I was just making sure you were okay with me doing that.
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I tried this once with an old camera… it was in the days when you took your roll of film to the pharmacy or somewhere to get it developed. I waited a few days, but, alas, when I got my prints the order had been mixed up with some family taking a European vacation.
PS. Good to see a foodie photo again!
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I once owned a 3-d camera from the 1950s. I loved the 3-d but what I loved more was that every photo looked as if it had been taken in the 1950s. Then one day I came home and my camera was busted and no one in the family was talking. Thanks, F.
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Gosh, I can remember clearing out my Uncles stuff when he passed and finding a drawer full of photos of dead people in coffins. I hadn’t a clue to who they were or what to do with them.
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Post them on a blog called, People in Coffins? I love old photos. I can browse through old boxes of photos for hours and hours. Thanks, SPP
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[…] In rented boots — t r e f o l o g y […]
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Thanks, David
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A sepia photo of you being interred at the Boot Hill cemetery in Pioche, Nevada would be most appropriate.
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Okay, but what on earth is floating in that bloody mary??
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Haha just plain old olives. I have been served bloody mary’s with a slices of bacon, pickles, roma tomatoes, pretzel sticks, and on and on. This was definitely the most tame, but it was also one of the best I’ve had in a while. Thanks, B
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Those olives look huge! And… bacon?! IN the drink itself? Super weird. Also, the pretzels would get soggy. :/
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I love it. I’ll drink some hard liquor in your theoretical honor!
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And I’ll have another cup of tea. Thanks, S.
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Id gulp (and chew) that down in two seconds then get my pic taken. Old timey style.
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Haha, Funny guy.
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That would be AWESOME! I’m stealing that idea, and I am serious.
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Haha And why not? Thanks, SS
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