h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ugh.

And I've only seen The Wrong Trousers.

Really? Then you've missed out on a whole part of British culture.
But that was dog food... Anyway, let's see if we can get back to dead bodies, and I don't mean my housemates!

What else can one say about dead bodies?

You know those guys that hang out near the beach with the monkey and the crank box, and they train their monkey to steal the peoples wallets while their distracted, well you could do the same thing with a dead body, some wire, and a freind and/or marionett operator in the bushes. And that could turn you a profit.

Good idea - do you know any good Dead Body trainers? I guess it requires a lot of skill and a lot of wires - one going to each joint of each finger, plus a lot of skill and control involved, holding all the wires and not getting them tangled... But I guess it can be done. A better profit than selling it for medical experiments.

its also more prfitable than eating it. Or serving it to your guests to save some cash. Of course you would only do this after they were to rotten to perform anymore (ie their limbs and skin start falling off.). Or once their past their prime you could brake them down and make furnature out of them. nothing more luxerious than a genuine Corpse Couch

Record companies love dead bodies too. Their records can be remixed, reissued and repackaged endlessly, and the corpse will never get arrested or demand higher royalties.
These days, corpses can go on tour, as in the case of those virtual Elvis Presley shows where a live band back a video projection of Elvis. They can even join bands - e.g. John Lennon on "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love"!

It's true, so true - just like what I said earlier about the film stars...
As for food - I wonder how much of a trade Sweeney Todd made from his barber shop?

I'm sure he made a real killing.
Speaking of Monty Python, did you see the Python reunion pictures from last year, featuring the urn containing Graham Chapman's ashes?
I saw an interview with Eric Idle a few weeks ago where he explained that after the photo shoot, the Pythons had sat down around a table for an interview, leaving GC's urn on the table. Unfortunately, during the interview Idle casually crossed his legs and accidentally kicked the urn over, forcing a horrified Idle to get down on his knees and scrape up his ex-colleague.
Eric reckoned it produced probably the biggest laugh Chapman had ever got.

It wouldn't surprise me
SO, what else can be done with ashes, I wonder, apart from fertiliser out of them...
Also, is there a trade in skulls for Thespians wanting to do Hamlet?

They also had his ashes with them in a tribute show on TV...and I believe they ended with some kind of seance.

Have any of you ever noticed how much bigger a skull looks than the head it was inside of?

take a head- any head- and I'll tell you there's a skull inside that's a lot bigger than you thought it was.

One od the laws of proportion maybe.