<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>45 Fun Things to Do at a Funeral : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/"/><tagline>45 Fun Things to Do at a Funeral : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-12-03T14:48:43+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[45 Fun Things to Do at a Funeral]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/47586/1/" /><id>47586</id><summary><![CDATA[45 Fun Things to Do at a Funeral]]></summary><issued>2008-01-17T15:55:08+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-17T15:55:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<i>#13: Tie a fishing line to a five dollar bill and see who's really mourning and who just wants to be five bucks richer.</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mortuary Puts Funerals on Webcasts]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12930/1/" /><id>12930</id><summary><![CDATA[Mortuary Puts Funerals on Webcasts]]></summary><issued>2007-03-12T17:18:22+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-12T17:18:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In Ireland, they bury people quickly _ and now they're harnessing the speed of the Internet to help families grieve across the globe.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Exhumation threatened in funeral bill flap]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29522/1/" /><id>29522</id><summary><![CDATA[Exhumation threatened in funeral bill flap]]></summary><issued>2007-07-30T00:38:04+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-30T00:38:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A New Zealand funeral home director allegedly threatened to dig up a teenager's body because his family hadn't paid for his funeral.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[China holds funeral for panda killed by earthquake]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/64961/1/" /><id>64961</id><summary><![CDATA[China holds funeral for panda killed by earthquake]]></summary><issued>2008-06-10T15:15:53+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-10T15:15:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[WOLONG, China - Nearly a month after China's devastating earthquake, the Wolong Nature Reserve held a funeral Tuesday for a panda that was crushed in the temblor.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dog Finds Way to Owner's Funeral]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/57981/1/" /><id>57981</id><summary><![CDATA[Dog Finds Way to Owner's Funeral]]></summary><issued>2008-04-12T09:44:12+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-12T09:44:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Sam leaves home by himself, embarking on a two-day trek to a funeral service.<br/><br/>*I hope this works, ABC video are flash driven and hard to copy/post.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Organ donor? Save money on your funeral]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20774/1/" /><id>20774</id><summary><![CDATA[Organ donor? Save money on your funeral]]></summary><issued>2007-05-18T23:16:34+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-18T23:16:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Funeral company in the Netherlands offer discounts on funeral costs if the deceased is a registered organ donor.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man dies Playing at Funeral]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/58293/1/" /><id>58293</id><summary><![CDATA[Man dies Playing at Funeral]]></summary><issued>2008-04-15T01:07:41+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-15T01:07:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The organist at a funeral died while playing.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Texas woman wins a free funeral at baseball game]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/64322/1/" /><id>64322</id><summary><![CDATA[Texas woman wins a free funeral at baseball game]]></summary><issued>2008-06-04T21:10:03+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-04T21:10:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Elaine Fulps was unusually happy for a woman who just got her funeral all lined up. Maybe that's because the 60-year-old Arlington woman who just won the funeral in a promotion at a minor league baseball game won't need to cash in her prize any time soon.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Thieves Break Into 6 Cars During Funeral]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42486/1/" /><id>42486</id><summary><![CDATA[Thieves Break Into 6 Cars During Funeral]]></summary><issued>2007-11-25T20:29:30+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-25T20:29:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Yes, that's right. Thieves in Vancouver, Washington took advantage of a funeral to break into 6 mourners' cars. They targeted those with out of state license plates figuring they would have more valuables in their cars.<br/>Where is a good old fashioned lightning bolt when you need one?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Paper's Decision to Twitter 3-Year-Old's Funeral Sparks Outrage]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/76152/1/" /><id>76152</id><summary><![CDATA[Paper's Decision to Twitter 3-Year-Old's Funeral Sparks Outrage]]></summary><issued>2008-09-14T14:47:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-14T14:47:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Colorado newspaper's decision to live blog the funeral of a 3-year-old boy with Twitter has prompted a flurry of criticism from the local media, bloggers and media ethicists.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Funeral home donates headstone for slain girl]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45506/1/" /><id>45506</id><summary><![CDATA[Funeral home donates headstone for slain girl]]></summary><issued>2007-12-29T23:45:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-29T23:45:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Funeral home donated a headstone for a murdered child, saying everyone should have a monument marking their time here on Earth.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Dead Bug Funeral Kit ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/46782/1/" /><id>46782</id><summary><![CDATA[The Dead Bug Funeral Kit ]]></summary><issued>2008-01-10T20:29:24+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-10T20:29:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[We hope the Dead Bug Funeral Kit will provide some consolation. You may preorder this Kit for yourself or a loved one. We are working as briskly as we can to make these Kits, but there is a lot of grief in this world.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bodies removed after Pontiac funeral home foreclosure]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80206/1/" /><id>80206</id><summary><![CDATA[Bodies removed after Pontiac funeral home foreclosure]]></summary><issued>2008-10-24T10:10:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-24T10:10:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Gerds said he didn&#8217;t know if families had already paid for funerals slated to be held at Burns &#8211; or whether they would have to pay another funeral home, too.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Wants For Sale]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/63327/1/" /><id>63327</id><summary><![CDATA[Wants For Sale]]></summary><issued>2008-05-27T09:52:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-27T09:52:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A genius artist couple started a website where they paint the various things they want, then sell the paintings for the real life cost of those things, then buy the things with the money from the paintings.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[32 Dead in Suicide Bomb at Iraqi Funeral]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45691/1/" /><id>45691</id><summary><![CDATA[32 Dead in Suicide Bomb at Iraqi Funeral]]></summary><issued>2008-01-01T12:15:46+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-01T12:15:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide attacker detonated an explosives-rigged vest at a Shiite funeral in Baghdad, killing 32 people gathered to mourn the death of an Iraqi army officer killed in a car bombing, police and ambulance officials said.<br/><br/>Isn't it the height of bad taste to bomb a funeral?  What if it turns into a geometric progression?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[List Of The Most Popular Funeral Songs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/2044/1/" /><id>2044</id><summary><![CDATA[List Of The Most Popular Funeral Songs]]></summary><issued>2006-10-04T11:01:59+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-04T11:01:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[And the number 1 most popular funeral song is 'Goodbye My Lover' by James Blunt.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Stuff]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44349/1/" /><id>44349</id><summary><![CDATA[Stuff]]></summary><issued>2007-12-15T22:02:14+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-15T22:02:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[That's it really - some pictures of some things.  Things that straddle that line between cool and pointless.<br/><br/>I reckon there'll be at least one thing on here you'll want.  And those stairs/drawers combo that keeps cropping up.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The $2 Bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/56777/1/" /><id>56777</id><summary><![CDATA[The $2 Bill]]></summary><issued>2008-04-02T15:04:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-02T15:04:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A guy stops off at his local Taco Bell after work and decides to pay with a $2 bill instead of a $50 to make things easier for the cashier.<br/><br/>Hilarity and Asshatery ensue.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Dead' man woke up at funeral]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/24571/1/" /><id>24571</id><summary><![CDATA['Dead' man woke up at funeral]]></summary><issued>2007-06-20T22:05:38+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-20T22:05:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The man's relatives were in a Buddhist mourning hall, reciting prayers over the dead body, when it gasped and woke up, the Shanghai Daily reports.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Police hold formal funeral for dog killed in the line of duty]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/73369/1/" /><id>73369</id><summary><![CDATA[Police hold formal funeral for dog killed in the line of duty]]></summary><issued>2008-08-23T15:51:54+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-23T15:51:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[King Luther, Rutland, VT's only police dog, died during the pursuit of a stolen vehicle.<br/>R.I.P. King Luther.<br/><br/>More pictures and <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=8884806" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">video here.</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ruling could clear way for resumption of funeral protests]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43553/1/" /><id>43553</id><summary><![CDATA[Ruling could clear way for resumption of funeral protests]]></summary><issued>2007-12-07T16:31:03+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-07T16:31:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Looks like the Westboro Baptist Church could soon resume picketing at soldiers&#8217; funerals in Missouri because of a federal appeals court ruling Thursday.]]></content></entry></feed>