GOOD GRIEF! Finally, a shopping experience you can dig . . .
A shopping experience that's not for stiffs, UndergroundHumor.com features books, movies, t-shirts and candy of a morbidly amusing nature. Come and get your own solid chocolate casket!
March 29, 2002 -- Death-defying describes http://www.UndergroundHumor.com">UndergroundHumor.com, a new subterranean site where death care professionals and others can shop till they drop for quirky books, t-shirts, movies and other items that defiantly mock "The Grim Reaper."
Launched this month, UndergroundHumor.com was created by a former funeral home professional who recognized that humor is a perfectly normal -- and very human -- response to death. In a business where facing ones mortality is an everyday occurrence, humor becomes an invaluable survival tool.
Lurking below the surface in a fun-filled site to behold is an oddball assortment of merchandise that celebrates the natural relationship between death and humor.
Among the books available at UndergroundHumor.com are these amusing classics on mortality:
- The Darwin Awards - Volumes I and II
- The Definitive Guide to Underground Humor
- Unpleasant Ways to Die
- The Gashlycrumb Tinies
- Epitaphs to Remember
T-shirts bear the following morbidly memorable quotes:
- "Your undertaker is the last person who will ever let you down." -- Anonymous
- "I have never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure." -- Clarence Darrow
- "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." -- Elbert Hubbard
- "They say that hell is hot, but is it humid? Because I can take the heat; it's the humidity I can't stand." -- Ronnie Shakes
- "I'm not afraid of dying. It'll be the one manicure I don't screw up." -- Anita Wise
Movies to stop you dead include a selection that meets the highest standards for being amusingly crass, morbid yet mirthful, and always offbeat:
- Beetlejuice
- Death Becomes Her
- Defending Your Life
- Harold and Maude
- Waking Ned Devine
- Weekend at Bernie's
- Weekend at Bernie's II.
All are available in both DVD and VHS formats.
Caskets of fancy solid chocolate are available with all the fittings of the finest burial box and are made from a mold owned by a real-life casket company.
New merchandise is being added to the website all the time.
http://www.UndergroundHumor.com">UndergroundHumor.com accepts checks, money orders and credit card charges through PayPal, the acclaimed online e-payment system. A money-back guarantee applies to all purchases. For further information, visit http://www.UndergroundHumor.com">www.UndergroundHumor.com.
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