Use of "passes away"

Where's Barbara?

 

i dunno. i should have thought out my Songbird protest a little better before i threw it down. ... i freakin' hate babs.

 

Well, Xan should have thought out... Well nevermind...

 

xan had nothing to do with the use of babs, fine sir. ;D

 

"Went to walk in the light of the Lord."

 

I love flowery obituaries. Once we had a 55-inch, paid obit on a guy who wasn't even from our neck of the woods -- his wife was from there -- and who had few relatives there.

And they paid to run it twice.

I'm thinking the funeral home paid the desk's salaries for a month.

 

Trust me wicked, the funeral home didn't pay a nickel. The family paid.

 

The family paid the funeral home, which paid us. That's the way it usually works.

 

The family paid as part of the funeral bill.

 

Spelled it wrong. It's "Barbra."

 

I'm getting verklempt.

 

Then there's "lost," as in "we lost Dad last fall." Like he's a set of car keys ...