Terry was hilarious on this show...

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Like dolphin said, they can be necessary green spaces in cities. Rosehill and Graceland, for example.

You know what else is a waste of space? Golf courses. Maybe we should start combining the two.

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No. Unless of course your average Rosehillian spends his Saturday strolling through the local cemetary and having a picnic with his family on a table he set up over some dead bodies.

I have never been walking through a heavily populated downtown center and been like "You know what this place needs? It needs a huge cemetery so I can see green grass and small rock pillars!".

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Was their point that mausoleums are more efficient, that cremation is the key or just throw people in the landfill?

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Edgewater is downtown?

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Hey Dan,Dan,hey Dan, you know who else thought cemetearys were a bad idea and a waste of space? Hitler. Hey Dan, did you know that Dan?

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

cold.

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The point is that if major downtown areas can survive without cemeteries I think less populated areas with more natural green areas can too.

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That combination could could be entertaining actually.

Imagine a guy in town on business who just finds the local sports station and stumbles upon Wheezy and BooBoo discussing the merits of cemeteries


We had half of our after school fights in high school in a cemetery. When they busted up the cemetery we'd head down to the baseball fields

Cemeteries are kind of dumb, but claiming they take up "too much space" is kind of idiotic. What % of the US landmass is taken up by cemeteries? Like 0.00001%?

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Dahl had that idea 15 years ago.

I know you are doing your thing but green space has value for a host of issues even if it is passive.

I know I shouldn't do this but addressing your response directly, go to a cemetery on a weekend or holiday and you will see plenty of people making use of the space. Go to a cemetery with even slight historical significance and you will see tourists.

They pay real estate taxes, create good paying jobs, provide a place for teenagers to drink and worship satan at night, act as an archive for historical purposes, etc.

If you had a cemetery in the middle of downtown, I promise you people would be going there to eat lunch on a nice summer day. Look at older cities where development grew around an existing cemetery. People hang out in Boston's downtown cemeteries.

like I said, there are scores of reasons cemeteries are good

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I know green space has value. What you are describing is a park. Those exist too and they are better suited to handle people.

Would Grant Park be better if it was a cemetery instead of a public park? Would Central Park be better if it was a cemetery?

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WTF? Now we need government intervention to tell people they can't buy a cemetery plot if they want to?

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It was a cemetery but the caskets kept popping up but that is not analogous as the overwhelming majority of cemeteries are privately owned.

I describe it as a park but if the land lied there fallow but maintained with a fence around it not allowing anyone access it would still have a net positive environmental impact in a densely populated area.

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Well excuse me.

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And Rodney Dangerfield (or Harold Ramis) had the idea 33 years ago

I'll tell ya, country clubs and cemeteries are the biggest wastes of prime real estate

Paul Konerko shoulda been the next pope.

Makes sense. As it is, golf courses essentially function as cemetery waiting rooms.

Seriously, though, isn't it weird how Dan doesn't come out against golf courses? So weird you guys. I honestly can't think of a single reason why.

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I gotta tell ya, I wish they had tacos like that local...

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WTF? What a couple of jag offs. At least Carlin made the topic funny. Bernstein is just an angry, racist, hateful person. And if Dan said the sky way orange, Terry would agree. I've listened to about 20 minutes of this show in the last month, and while I still may be a miserable prick in many ways, at least I'm not wasting good anger on these two cocksmokers!

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Let's do it for Johnny!

Actually, it was the late, great George Carlin.

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