Comments on: The Merry Cemetery! It rhymes!.

The Merry Cemetery! It rhymes!.

arse_hat — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:12:59 -0800

In the county of Maramures in Romania is Sapanta or The Merry Cemetery. From 1935 Ioan Patras, carved oak crosses with a scene from a life or death like the death of a young girl or this questionable bit.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:42:57 -0800

You fuck one sheep ...

By: jouke

jouke — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:58:59 -0800

Well, he's sitting down on a reversed bucket. IANASB but that does not spell exactly sheep buggery to me. I think these tombstones are much better than what is customary here. Although not as durable. Think about it; what scene will be depicted on your tombstone?

By: maryh

maryh — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:57:21 -0800

Think about it; what scene will be depicted on your tombstone? My body slumped awkwardly over a cluttered desk, faintly lit by the field of blue and yellow on a computer monitor, the word "meh" hovering over my sightless eyes.

By: jouke

jouke — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:58:38 -0800

heh

By: isopraxis

isopraxis — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:01:56 -0800

Best use of the TurdaToader tag evar.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:09:35 -0800

Think about it; what scene will be depicted on your tombstone? Pepperoni?

By: gdav

gdav — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:36:09 -0800

I've been there. Like the picture of the young girl run over by a car above, many of the painted graves feature a Dacia 1300, the ubiquitous Romanian version of the Renault 12, which was in still produced there until a few years ago. Another recurring theme was of a man drinking himself to death...

By: jouke

jouke — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:16:52 -0800

Another recurring theme was of a man drinking himself to death... That's sad. But not as sad as dying in front of the blue&yellow.

By: greytape

greytape — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:48:38 -0800

I've been there too, it struck me as a much nicer way of doing cemetries than the usual sad, stony grayness. Incidentally Maramures is an awesome place, people should go there.

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:49:13 -0800

mmmm.... pepperoni. BTW, that sheep is clearly being sheared....and buggered.

By: zaelic

zaelic — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:40:58 -0800

The grave that shows the little girl being hit by a taxi was repainted some years ago - the taxi used to have a lisence plate that read "Sibiu" until some tourists visiting from Sibiu complained... Sapanta is nice, but they have become too much of a tourist trap. East of Sighet the villages are a heck of a lot more compelling.

By: memexikon

memexikon — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:42:56 -0800

Here's a 2 part interview from November 2004. Part 1 contains a short interview with Dumitru Pop, the folk artist who continues the Merry Cemetery tradition. & part 2 is here.