"NY" wrote in message
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"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.

Wonder what the reaction of little kids out on their own would be.