Among occupations, "Suicide and body decomposition cleaner-upper" sounds less than appealing.

Handel's Messiah, sponsored annually by suicide and body decomposition cleanup company.


Haul effluvia!
Haul effluvia!
Hauleffluvia!
Hauleffluvia!
Haul e-e-e-e-fluviaa-a-a!

Says in TFA that they have about 20 jobs a month. That's more than I expected. How many murders and suicides really take place every month in most cities?

mistersnark: I dunno...I'd be more impressed if it was an Easter program being sponsored. Them zombies are a mess, divine or not.

Hey, whatever you say about the J-man, he cleaned up after himself after he died. Leaving that shroud behind was kind of unthoughtful though.

while about half is what he described as "filthy living or pooh related."



Damn sticky honey-covered pooh bear.

There's a movie about this kind of thing with Amy Adams, Emily Blunt (love her) and Alan Arkin. "Sunshine Cleaning". Very cute, funny movie form the producers of "Little Miss Sunshine". I hope they do more Sunshine movies.

http://www.sunshinecleaning-themovie.com/#/home

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NO!

...Insert some clever comment about how Dr. Kevorkian lost a lot of money on a film of Handel's Messiah....


Nah, I'm too lazy today.

Nobody's

Marisyana: ameeriklane: Says in TFA that they have about 20 jobs a month. That's more than I expected. How many murders and suicides really take place every month in most cities?

When we moved out of our previous house we had to get a company to clean the air conditioning ducts in the floor because a couple of our cats liked to pee down them. They did crime scene and suicide clean-up too. When I apologized for the pee the guy said, "Lady, cat piss is nothing compared to having to peel somebody off a carpet because they decomposed into it." Many CSBs commenced from that point. If you can stand it, there's definitely money to be made in the field.

Heck yeah, I'm glad somebody's out there doing the work.

Sounds like they also clean up old people who died alone and festered a bit.

Marisyana:
"Lady, cat piss is nothing compared to having to peel somebody off a carpet because they decomposed into it."

--- I wonder if the guy from Dirty Jobs has ever been asked to do that!
Not safe for TV........

Handel composing

Handel decomposing - ick

There was an old Kliban or Far Side with some take on this joke. The Google it fails me.

Probably sponsored the group because the company has a good handel on the problem. Don't forget the Bad News Bears were sponsored by a bail bond company.

A shotgun suicide, for example, can be especially difficult.

"You have to look at every square inch. Things go everywhere," Riley said.



They certainly do.

Tax Boy: while about half is what he described as "filthy living or pooh related."

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Damn sticky honey-covered pooh bear.



Came for Winnie the Pooh references, leaving satisfied...

ameeriklane: Says in TFA that they have about 20 jobs a month. That's more than I expected. How many murders and suicides really take place every month in most cities?

I deal with death scenes in a Midwestern county, about 120,000 people with one mid-size city. 20 a month is about right.

The vast majority are suicides, accidents, or just people who live alone and don't get found for a few days.

Now, the slightly larger and more ghetto city one county over? They just had 5 homicides in 55 hours, right before Christmas.

Good thing they just cut their coroner's budget my more than half, prompting the most respected coroner in the state to resign. Well done, county commissioners! At least that way they could pay for the new baseball fields in the rich section of town without raising taxes. Gotta have priorities ..

It's not like we have a caste system and these folks aren't allowed to even touch us, never mind talk to us or act like they're real members of society or something. They do a job, they get paid well for it, and so they give some of that money back to the community - seems normal to me.

Englebert Slaptyback: Handel's Messiah, sponsored annually by suicide and body decomposition cleanup company.

Haul effluvia!
Haul effluvia!
Hauleffluvia!
Hauleffluvia!
Haul e-e-e-e-fluviaa-a-a!

Damn you! Now I can actually hear that, in my head...

FormlessOne

Damn you! Now I can actually hear that, in my head...


Oopsie. :-)

Marisyana: ameeriklane: Says in TFA that they have about 20 jobs a month. That's more than I expected. How many murders and suicides really take place every month in most cities?

When we moved out of our previous house we had to get a company to clean the air conditioning ducts in the floor because a couple of our cats liked to pee down them. They did crime scene and suicide clean-up too. When I apologized for the pee the guy said, "Lady, cat piss is nothing compared to having to peel somebody off a carpet because they decomposed into it." Many CSBs commenced from that point. If you can stand it, there's definitely money to be made in the field.

My husband used to go kart racing, and a regular at the track was in this business. My husband once asked him what the worst scenes were, and we were expecting something gross like being stuck on the carpet stories, but he simply said, "kids." He had many stories, but was mostly out there to wind down. Interesting guy.

See that garbage can full of salt? That's where he keeps his victims. The salt turns the bodies... into mummies.

This Python ditty seems relevant...

Beethoven's gone but his music lives on,
And Mozart don't go shoppin' no more,
You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again,
And Elgar doesn't answer the door.

Schübert and Chopin used to chuckle and laugh,
Whilst composing a long symphony,
But one hundred and fifty years later,
There's very little of them left to see.

They're decomposing composers,
There's nothing much anyone can do,
You can still hear Beethoven,
But Beethoven cannot hear you.

Händel and Haydn and Rachmaninov,
Enjoyed a nice drink with their meal,
But nowadays no-one will serve them,
And their gravy is left to congeal.

Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds,
With their highly original sound,
The pianos they played are still working,
But they're both six feet underground.

They're decomposing composers,
There's less of them every year,
You can say what you like to Debussy,
But there's not much of him left to hear.

Claude Achille Debussy, died 1918.

Christophe Willebaud Gluck, died 1787.

Carl Maria von Weber, not at all well1825, died 1826.

Giacomo Meyerbeer, still alive 1863, not still alive 1864.

Modeste Mussorgsky, 1880 going to parties, no fun anymore 1881.

Johan Nepomuck Hummel, chatting away nineteen to the dozen with his mates down the pub every evening 1836, 1837 nothing.