"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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I knew a goth that slept in a coffin.

Long ago I spent a weekend with a friend in a rented castle on the
Scottish borders. There were about 150 of us and various events going on.
The organiser, who was also a fire-eater, was a goth and the caretaker
was quite surprised to find him sleeping in a coffin in the gun room!

And the corpse likely wasnt too impressed either.

Whitby at Goth Weekend is always a good place to see the weird and the
wonderful. Lots of men in long black, red-lined cloaks, and women in
crinolines, with deathly pale makeup.

But the funniest thing I saw was in a hearse that was parked on the clifftop
near the Captain Cook monument and the whalebone arch. Yes, it was a very
OTT hearse - obviously a Goth's and not just a normal undertaker's. But
there was more. Suddenly there was a muffled belly-laugh from inside, the
coffin-lid opened and a skeleton sat up, looked around quizzically, lay back
down and the lid closed again. He'd obviously got it on a timer to do this
everyone so often to entertain passers-by while he was in town parading with
his missus.