that sure showed society...

RIP. Sounds like he was a heck of a guy...

thats awesome. I bet he's laughing at it from heaven.

was he in full metal jacket by chance?

nice, i definately want to do something similar

and FTA:

Then there was the night he called Festival of the Candles. It was a one-time holiday he made up. He woke the children in the middle of the night, gave them each a lighted candle and sent them outside in the dark to find a surprise. He had tied candy bars to the pine tree in the yard.

Festivus > Festival of the Candles

Dad?

Just perfect.

Sort of like that guy who wrote his own obituary (showed up in Fark many months ago). I'll raise a glass in his honour tonight.

So it goes.

Well, that was a nice story.

actually, now that i read the article, he is way cool. Reminds me a bit of Andy Kaufman, who just took what was expected, and flipped it upside down.

i think in honor of what he lived for, we should post ridiculous pranks we did on society, or our friends.

In college, all my friends and myself were a part of this program called the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, which was basically not having a major, but studying a bit of everything, mostly literature and philosophy and religion though. One of the classes required that we collected newspapers every day and read the articles and wrote about them. Well, if you put about 100 students worth of news papers, collected for an entire semester... we had over who knows how many pounds of print.

We wrinkled them up and put all these newspapers in one of our program's heads rooms. Filled it to the brim. He didnt like newspapers very much after that.

The world needs more Jim Schinneller's

This will be mine...unless I go MORE bald.

I appreciate people who can make me laugh with the slight handicap of being dead already.

Karl Marx, for example.

Who's your Dada?

When Jim received the first royalty check in the 1960s for a popular art history textbook he wrote, "Art: Search and Self-Discovery," he brought home the money in 1,000 single dollars. He had the kids stand at the bottom of the stairs while he rained the money down from the landing above.

way to go, Pops, Rest in Peace...

all the years we drove anywhere, I looked at the back of my father's head. He once said, One day you too will be the back of my head.

That's great! I hope people are dancing on my grave when I die.

That way I'll know what a miserable bastard I was. I'll leave behind a will full of stuff like "punch card for free haircut with 1 out of 10 punches" and "half used bottle of shampoo"

Sounds like he was a good guy.

This guy is my hero.

Sounds like a pretty funny guy. Rest in peace, dude.

What an awesome person. Raised some mighty fine kids.

I'll jump on the bandwagon as well. RIP.

/Winding up on FARK is something he would probably find hysterical.

For all you Castenada people out there, that is a perfect example of a not doing..

/that is all

ah that was refreshing, sad he's dead
R.I.P. mister :)

2006-09-20 05:19:37 PM Tatsuma

Wow, sounds like a nice man.

We need more people like him

my thoughts as well.

musta been a cool dude, like me

The coolest obitary I've ever read was written by the deceased guy a couple of days before he died of cancer. He basically made fun of himself and dictated all sorts of crazy stuff he wanted to happen at his funeral. His closing words were something along the lines of "it's been fun guys, now sell my car and get loaded."

IggyE

We wrinkled them up and put all these newspapers in one of our program's heads rooms. Filled it to the brim. He didnt like newspapers very much after that.

Whoa, slow down, man. You're living way too fast.

I hope I'm just like him when I grow up.
What a fun guy. I bet he was a blast to be around, and it sound like he enjoyed life.
RIP

Sounds like one guy who had life all figured out.

/not being sarcastic

Sounds like the world loss one heckuva guy.

Somewhere, he's loving the tribute.

"lost"

/Duh

I liked this article a lot.

Sounds like a cool guy.

Totally awesome.

This man is the polar opposite of my family. Lucky kids.

Tatsuma
If I have the choice between a million dollars or people remembering me the way they remember that man.. I'm going for the latter.

I'll take the million.

Here's to ya, Jim...and to your kids as well. This sounds like a family where humor was highly regarded and they knew not to take themselves too seriously. A lesson we could all learn.

/To Jim *clink*
//To the kids *clink*
///To the bar so I don't have to type *clink* and can actually clink *clink*.

That was the definition of bittersweet. Nice article, thanks submitter.

Also, w/ all the other threads and articles this place has had in the past few weeks, this one is truely refreshing. Glad to know theres some people out there who make news for not being stupid.

Tatsuma

no no no...you've got it all wrong. wealth is the only thing that matters. who cares if you can't take it with you, there are starving poor people in the world who need to be ignored by the rich! some people these days *shakes head*

/RIP, sounds like he was a really good guy

I wish he was my daddy. I bet he'd let me stay up late and eat cheerios while we watched Back to the Future Part III together! I bet he'd let me eat my cheerios with a spork too! How funny is that? Cause its a spork. Not supposed to use a spork to eat cheerios. Now that's sticking it to the man. Then mommy would come in and say "What are you jokers doing up so late watching Back to the Future? Are you eating cheerios? With a spork?!" Then she'd shake her head at us and say something else like "What am I gonna do with my two little rascals?"
But before she could even get that last syllable out "Dad" would punch her in her fat face and tell her to shut the fark up. While she's laying on the carpet bleeding from a few holes I can't explain and making these silly gasping sounds he'd scream at me to finish my damn food.
God damn spork.

R.I.P. Guy who got a photo of the back of your head. You are a true American hero.

SwingAwayMarell

ROFLMAO..........i hurt........

"Ladies and gentlemen, I give you" - the announcer pulls back a red valvet curtain to reveal SwingAwayMarell's post - "the internet TROLL!"

/RIP, funny guy.

Crap. I didn't even know this guy and I'm crying. He reminds me a lot of my grandpa (died in April).

My grandpa would say things like "Lisa, is your face feeling okay? Really? Well, it's killing me"!

Funny old bastards...