r/Whatcouldgowrong Jun 02 '23

Throwing cremated ashes at the beach. WCGW?

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u/1st_thing_on_my_mind Jun 02 '23

Someone never watched The Big Lebowski.

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u/4nts Jun 02 '23

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u/Drewdogg12 Jun 02 '23

And you took him lord as you took so many bright flowering young men at khe San at langdok and at hill 364.

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u/Bodhigomo Jun 02 '23

Donnie, who loved bowling.

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u/Babo_Phat Jun 02 '23

And the outdoors

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u/OGWopFro Jun 02 '23

Everything is a fucking travesty with you, Walter!

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u/FloridaMan69ingurmom Jun 02 '23

What was all that shit about Vietnam!?

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u/Ecstatic_Entropy Jun 02 '23

Well there's a literal connection

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u/eric987235 Jun 02 '23

Face it there isn’t ANY connection!

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u/Rich-Detective478 Jun 17 '23

For your information, the supreme court has roundly rejected prior restraint!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

and bowling

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u/Ecstatic_Entropy Jun 02 '23

And as a surfer, he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jollato Leo Carrillo and up to Pismo.

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u/Ok_Storm_8533 Jun 02 '23

Take it easy!

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u/Ecstatic_Entropy Jun 02 '23

I'm calmer than you are

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u/halloweening Jun 02 '23

He was one of us.

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u/cacotopic Jun 02 '23

What the fuck does anything have to do with Vietnam?!

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u/UnsolicitedDogPics Jun 02 '23

What was that shit about Nam Walter?

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u/JohnyMaybach Jun 02 '23

Best thing ever

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u/Arteyp Jun 02 '23

Good night sweet prince

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

We commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the pacific ocean

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u/KnowsAboutMath Jun 03 '23

In accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been

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u/r3itheinfinite Jun 02 '23

WHO LOVED BOWLING

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u/maxdurden Jun 02 '23

To this day, this scene is still on the top of my list of funniest single scenes in any movie.

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u/MisterB78 Jun 02 '23

That movie is nonstop funniest single scenes in any movie

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u/ElderTobias Jun 02 '23

Goddammit Walter, you fucking asshole

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u/iamthyfucker Jun 02 '23

Oh man that scene had me laughing for dayze.

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u/headachewpictures Jun 02 '23

I always wondered if that was Point Dume

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u/Sonova_Vondruke Jun 03 '23

What was all that about Nam, man?

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u/Bloody-Penguin6 Jun 03 '23

Donny was way outta his element here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

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u/Marcovio Jun 02 '23

I’m sure your pops got a laugh out of that in the afterlife 😂 talk about a memorable moment of your father!

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u/JohnJDumbear Jun 02 '23

You know he did. He was the rogue wave.

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u/supermybad1 Jun 02 '23

Nearly the same thing happened to me - just replace water and wave with rogue wind gust and Illinois farmland, and poof - dad’s ashes absolutely caked my suit

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u/JohnJDumbear Jun 02 '23

( soft snickering heard in the distant corn field)

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u/talentheturtle Jun 02 '23

Exactly what I pictured too lol

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u/Conradfr Jun 02 '23

up to my waste

Ah, India.

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u/AshgarPN Jun 02 '23

Fuck it, Dude. Let’s go bowling.

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u/Man_in_the_uk Jun 02 '23

Snap, such a great film.

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u/Boner_Stevens Jun 02 '23

That moment when the ashes hit the dude still makes me lose it

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u/GameMasterSammy Jun 02 '23

A great film to watch

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u/Ecstatic_Entropy Jun 02 '23

Sometimes there's a man

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

Sometimes, there’s a man…

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u/Ecstatic_Entropy Jun 02 '23

Aw. I lost my train of thought here. But... aw, hell. I've done introduced him enough.

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u/DrewB0i Jun 02 '23

“And as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California…”

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u/Ecstatic_Entropy Jun 02 '23

That is our most modesty priced receptacle

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u/rstanley41 Jun 02 '23

We're not FUCKING SAPS!

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u/floaty73 Jun 02 '23

Sir, this is a mortuary, not a rental house.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

Goodnight, sweet Prince.

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u/joaquinsaiddomin8 Jun 02 '23

Was that their most modestly priced receptacle?

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u/Due_Platypus_3913 Jun 02 '23

WHY IS EVERYTHING A TRAVESTY WITH YOU WALTER?!!

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u/Bbuck93 Jun 02 '23

What was all that shit about Vietnam!?

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u/Buckus93 Jun 02 '23

Goddamnit. Where's the nearest Ralph's?

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u/PoPoChao Jun 02 '23

Lmao. Beat me to it

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u/United_Obligation986 Jun 02 '23

Obviously they’re not golfers

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u/upsidedownboris Jun 02 '23

Obviously you're not a golfer.

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u/Greenmind76 Jun 02 '23

You beat me to this by oh 15 hours.

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u/AmericasSpaceMonkey Jun 02 '23

Fuck it. Let’s go bowling.

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u/AcerbicFwit Jun 02 '23

I don’t roll on Shomer Shabbos!

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u/TFJ Jun 02 '23

SHOMER FUCKING SHABBOS

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u/CynthiasPomeranian Jun 02 '23

Told that kraut a fucking thousand times

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u/TFJ Jun 02 '23

SHOMER FUCKING SHABBOS

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u/CataclysmClive Jun 02 '23

he doesn’t roll *on Shabbos (sabbath). he *is shomer shabbos (observant of sabbath)

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u/TopGfromTVM Jun 02 '23

Sure cousin, I'll come pick you up in next hour.

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u/RutRowe24 Jun 02 '23

Niko! It's your cousin Roman!

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u/Vegetable-Error-21 Jun 02 '23

Fuck off cuzzin, I don't want to go bowling

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u/PrecariouslySane Jun 02 '23

God damnit, Walter! You fucking asshole! Everything's a fucking travesty with you, man!

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u/NowCalmDownSkeeter Jun 02 '23

“What was that shit about Vietnam?!?”

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u/Ironcastattic Jun 02 '23

Everyone has that one Walter friend and by god, they are a real chore sometimes.

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u/xinfinitimortum Jun 02 '23

You either know a Walter, or are a Walter.

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u/Ironcastattic Jun 02 '23

Oof. Imagine reading this and realizing you don't have a Walter in your life.

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u/lashapel Jun 02 '23

Everyone sounding crazy in this comment section

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u/missing_children Jun 02 '23

That lady was really so appalled she turned into R2-D2 for a second

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u/4nts Jun 02 '23

I had to go search for the scream and holy shit it's spot on!
4.3million views for a 2 second video.
https://youtu.be/B6mh45mA_JY

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

The fuck you talking about? The carrier, what’s in the fucking carrier?

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u/PM_ME_DON_CHEADLE Jun 02 '23

huh? OH! Luke's droid, think it's an R2 unit. I can't leave him home alone or he eats the furniture.

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u/redpola Jun 02 '23

Donny… who loved bowling.

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u/VitQ Jun 02 '23

Goodnight, sweet prince.

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u/Suggestedname420 Jun 02 '23

In your wisdom Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok and Hill 364. These young men gave their lives, and so did Donny.

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u/pip-roof Jun 02 '23

It’s our most modestly priced receptacle

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u/dandehmand Jun 02 '23

Look, just because we’re bereaved doesn’t make us saps!

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u/Chumbief Jun 02 '23

Is there a Ralph's nearby?

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u/ElDuder1no Jun 02 '23

We're scattering the fuckin ashes!

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u/Shougee369 Jun 02 '23

he now lives inside them lungs

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u/Fellhuhn Jun 02 '23

Not only he does, you get the ashes of a lot of people from that day. Shit just gets scraped together with a lot of leftovers.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

The dude rebels, even after death

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u/rando512 Jun 02 '23

Bye Cathy .....

Cathy : I'm back bitch, take this.

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u/phenyle Jun 02 '23

He was a good bowler, and a good man

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u/Unusual_residue Jun 02 '23

First time I have seen a coffee cup double up as an urn

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u/Chalky_Mike Jun 02 '23

Not quite the same, but we kept my mother's ashes in a Maxwell House container. Not for money purposes, but because she wanted it that way.

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u/CSmith1986 Jun 02 '23

I guess your mom was a bowler?

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u/SportTheFoole Jun 02 '23

Obviously you’re not a golfer.

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u/ivyidlewild Jun 02 '23

I played tennis, none of you make any sense to me

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u/ebb_omega Jun 02 '23

Did you ever hear of the Seattle Seven? That was me.... and six other guys...

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u/zeddknite Jun 03 '23

It was the most moderately priced receptacle.

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u/Forthe49ers Jun 02 '23

Darrell always hated the water

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u/boxofpickledpeppers Jun 02 '23

How can people be so clueless lol

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u/Stalinwolf Jun 02 '23

The masses are fucking dumb, man. And I know there's an irony in me smugly saying so, as I too am one of the masses. But Jesus Christ, dude. The bulk of us are beyond help, and I don't understand how anyone is functioning.

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u/Slackerguy Jun 02 '23

This is barley one step above how a toddler would handle the situation.

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u/PrimoBachs Jun 02 '23

Was that their most moderately-priced receptacle?

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u/Meme-Bean-Machine Jun 02 '23

Good night sweet prince.

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u/Cilantro_terracotta Jun 02 '23

Grandma is gonna be in the crack of someone’s ass by lunchtime. RIP

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u/bamburito Jun 02 '23

The r2d2 scream tho

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u/seaningtime Jun 02 '23

Everything's a fucking travesty with you man

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u/shaundisbuddyguy Jun 02 '23

Nobody fucks with the Jesus

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u/ZealousidealFault468 Jun 02 '23

You’re a fucking asshole Walter

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u/ZealousidealFault468 Jun 02 '23

What the fuck is your problem Walter

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u/PrimoBachs Jun 02 '23

Goddamn you Walter!

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u/ultra_phan Jun 02 '23

Obviously your not a golfer

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u/floaty73 Jun 02 '23

Hey Wu, isn't this guy supposed to be a millionaire?

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u/Skully_Lover Jun 02 '23

Going to blow in your face one last time.

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u/SubieB503 Jun 02 '23

"you're a fucking travesty, man"

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u/Eldugler Jun 02 '23

When my friends father passed away, he was cremated and had requested to be scattered at sea. The mortuary gave my friend the ashes in a football shaped dissolving shell, so he just yeeted it into the ocean with no chance of “ash back”. I know my friend had watched The Big Lebowski plenty of times with me, so not sure if he asked specifically for this option or not.

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u/yokramer Jun 02 '23

If you were in the Navy (my experience is subs specifically) you can be cremated and “laid to rest” sea. Now the trick is in how you specify you be sent off the boat. “Dumped at Sea” and the boat will surface and toss your urn off the side. However if you request to be “Spread at Sea” they must surface and during the ceremony they open it up and actually pour you out.

Apparently it’s not uncommon for things like this to happen and the video they are supposed to take for the family “gets corrupted”. I’ll be damn sure to specify that I want said video especially if my Dad ends up all over the guy dumping the urn lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

Someone lacks a basic understanding of aerodynamics.

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u/Man_in_the_uk Jun 02 '23

"I am the Walrus!" , "STFU DONNY! "

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u/AwarenessSoggy4352 Jun 02 '23

The R2 scream got lol

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u/Available-East-3105 Jun 02 '23

But did she say anything about Vietnam ??

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u/ndndr1 Jun 02 '23

Goddamit donny

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u/Parts_and_Neigbor Jun 02 '23

"Everything's a fucking travesty with you, man."

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u/CanIgetaWTF Jun 02 '23

Kathy's like fuck the cameraman in particular. I've never liked you. Here's ash in your eye!

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u/4sonsofamama Jun 02 '23

“Bye, Cathyyy! OH GOD NO! AHHHHH!”

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u/shaddy27 Jun 02 '23

I heard “Bye Kevin! Oohhoo he on us, oooh he on..”. Lol

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u/Melodic_Assistance84 Jun 02 '23

That’s exactly what happened to my grandfather, well my father actually. My grandfather, who lived to be 100 years old had the unfortunate shower incident, which led to him passing away after falling in it. He was in exceptional health, and would have certainly lived longer. Had he not fallen that day back in 1997. But he did fall. And his instructions in his will werefor him, not to have a memorial service and not to be buried, as he was not religious. But we did have his cremated ashes, and so my grandmother instructed us to put the ashes into the ocean, as they lived in Florida, just about 200 feet away from the shoreline. So, some family and friends gathered and my father walked the urn solemnly down to the beach, and we all spoke a few words about my grandfather. My father, who had had a somewhat contentious relationship with his father, opened the urn and threw the ashes outward into the ocean. But instead of the ashes falling into the ocean, they blew all over my father. Spring or the Ashes from his mouth and face, he then swam into the ocean, and came out. The irony was not lost on any of us, as my dad joked that “even in death, I feel like I can’t get out from under my father.” We all laughed knowingly.

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u/SixGunZen Jun 02 '23

Big Lebowski moment there.

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u/garbagedisposaly Jun 02 '23

This is obviously a high intelligence crowd.

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u/SnooDogs3437 Jun 02 '23

Dad always liked laying on the beach more then swimming in the ocean.

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u/dekciwandy Jun 02 '23

He just ate a family member

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u/edwardbacchayadav Jun 02 '23

The big Lebowski

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u/RajenBull1 Jun 02 '23

I've got grandma in my eye.

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u/BlueLatenq Jun 02 '23

The dude lives on among us

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u/OooofPoof Jun 02 '23

"Ahhhh, she on us" hahaha

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u/a_n_d_y_4_6 Jun 02 '23

Fuck sake 🙄

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u/Talking_Head Jun 02 '23

My soon to be cremated mother would laugh.

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u/pekoms_123 Jun 02 '23

The killing joke

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u/rissie_delicious Jun 02 '23

That's fuckin gross

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

Where can you get this new Dixie™️ urn from?

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u/GloomyCactusEater Jun 02 '23

What a waste. I put my mothers ashes in an ouija board. You don’t get too many human ashes in your lifetime why the hell would you just throw them away. Get creative people!!

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u/ikhos Jun 02 '23

R2 is getting all covered up in ashes here

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u/bindermichi Jun 02 '23

… and to dust (sand) we shall return

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u/McFry_ Jun 02 '23

Go damn travesty

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

NEAR the In-N-Out Burger!

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u/floaty73 Jun 02 '23

Those are good burgers, Walter.

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u/cbunni666 Jun 02 '23

Lmao. That was my worse fear. My FIL had to be cremated. My husband and I were planning on throwing his ashes at this light house he liked and I always said "with my stupid luck there's gonna be a down wind and I'll get covered".

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u/keluber1 Jun 02 '23

Got uncle Rob in a damn Dixie cup

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u/mooreads Jun 02 '23

Things you don’t do: tug on Superman’s cape, spit into the wind (i.e., throw ashes into the wind), pull the mask off the Lone Ranger, and don’t mess around with Jim. - Jim Croce.

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u/RockSteady65 Jun 02 '23

The Dude abides

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u/Spiritual-Plankton52 Jun 02 '23

Goodnight sweet prince

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u/Ltsmeet Jun 02 '23

I just learned this last year but the more acceptable term is "cremains."

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u/lfrankd3 Jun 02 '23

Thank You Big Lebowski

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

HILL 364

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u/StyrkeSkalVandre Jun 02 '23

"Its always a fucking travesty with you, Walter."

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u/Idaho1964 Jun 02 '23

She clearly did not watch The Big Lebowski.

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u/keibu821 Jun 02 '23

“God damnit Donny.”

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u/eric987235 Jun 02 '23

Walter you asshole!

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u/RealPropRandy Jun 02 '23

You’re out of your element, Donna!

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u/GamerOfGods33 Jun 02 '23

Aren't ashes considered human remains, making this super illegal?

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u/baxterrocky Jun 02 '23

What’s the fucking travesty with you man!!?

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u/Marc815 Jun 02 '23

Someone needs to do a combined gif with this and big lebowski.

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u/KALEl001 Jun 02 '23

the dude abides

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u/Fluid_Housing_373 Jun 02 '23

Walter did it way better

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u/MrSnorfels Jun 02 '23

Damnit Donny!

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u/actualhuman_ Jun 02 '23

Imagine spending your whole life knowing a lil bit of Calvin went in your mouth

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u/sparky255 Jun 02 '23

Now the deceased is literally a part of everyone that breathed it in.

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u/19cva Jun 03 '23

As young boys, we learn not to piss into the wind

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u/ALotOfRice Jun 04 '23

He came over all her face again

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u/12characters Jun 02 '23

Did she throw a styrofoam cup full of beach sand? Yes she did

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u/MoreGaghPlease Jun 02 '23

I’d also like my remains to be spread at the beach, but I don’t want to be cremated.

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u/biergarten Jun 02 '23

I thought everyone has seen The Big Lebowski.

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u/OverfiendAmon Jun 09 '23

You’ll always carry a piece of her in your lungs

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u/Man_in_the_uk Jun 02 '23

How can it not be totally obvious to which way the wind is blowing.

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u/EandJC Jun 02 '23

“You ain’t gettin rid of me that easily….”

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

The Lord certainly didn’t take that away…

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u/ForeverFree99 Jun 02 '23

Humpty Dumpty disrespecting the dead. Morons.

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u/NaSMaXXL Jun 02 '23

....check the wind first....

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u/ScreechingPizzaCat Jun 02 '23

Kathy’s last ditch attempt to possess another body by entering into their lungs.

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u/Itchy-Taste-4755 Jun 02 '23

Grandma doesn't want to go

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u/Jodelfreak Jun 02 '23

Good that it was only the ashes ....

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u/LiamSigg Jun 02 '23

Bye Calvin, hi Calvin

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u/rooster_saucer Jun 02 '23

how stupid must you be to not understand wind?

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u/Ok_Swordfish_947 Jun 02 '23

His name was lil Ash.