Cemeteries in Parking Lots

While I was researching the “Cemetery Safari” chapter for my upcoming book Weird Oklahoma, I came across an unusual burial site west of Tulsa that was entirely enclosed within a strip-mall parking lot. Once sacred ground, it’s now a conspicuous patch of grass in a sea of asphalt, a quirky spectacle to the shoppers forced to drive around it on their way to Radio Shack.

The handful of graves had become an absurd sight gag that punctuated the often indiscriminate momentum of American progress. And it got me thinking: were there others like it? Surely this wasn’t the only time the deceased had stubbornly spoiled the aesthetics of a well-drafted parking lot. I mean, the good spots had already started going to the handicapped; it was only a matter of time before the dead horned in on the action, too.

And you know what? I was right. In fact, I found even more than I expected …

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Nice Translator

It translates as you types with over 30 languages to choose from.  I tested this on my bilingual sister by cut and pasting the translation below in an email with nothing else written, hoping she would be impressed and touched by this random act.

And her reply,

“Just a note to let you know that you love me very much”…. yes, I do love you very much..thank you for reminding me lol… i haven’t forgotten.

Try it for yourself: www.nicetranslator.com.

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Yahoo! Top 10 Searches for 2008

1. Britney Spears
2. WWE
3. Barack Obama
4. Miley Cyrus
5. RuneScape
6. Jessica Alba
7. Naruto
8. Lindsay Lohan
9. Angelina Jolie
10. American Idol

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I had to look up RuneScape and Naruto, and I only end up using Yahoo! to search for something after I exhausted a Google search.

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