Is Ronnie really there in the box?

[scrotim]

As these thousands and thousands of flip-flop clad Californians process past Ronnie's casket, I can't help but wonder if the body is actually there in the box?

I mean, who would know the difference? And why take the chance of some psycho jumping the velvet rope and pushing the casket over?

Matter of fact, why bother hauling Ronnie to D.C. for the big show at all? Again, what difference does it really make? Since American funerals like this disdain actual viewing of the body as somehow tacky (I especially like the way the Argentines did it when Evita croaked--put her in a coffin with a glass lid. Very dramatic. Then put her on display again all over again twenty years later when Peron bit the big one), all we really need is the flag-shrouded casket as a symbol of the body we imagine to be inside, not the body itself.

In this scenario, the real Ronnie could remain in the deep freeze until the actual burial in California.

Who knows, maybe the government has had a plastic replica of Ronnie's body ready for years, just for this occasion. A replica would give the box weight and heft, just so the military pallbearers are none the wiser, as you don't want too many people in on the joke. And that way, if the casket did take a spill, the exposed replica would preserve the deception.

Sort of a Stepford Corpse.

If the U.S. government can keep the specifics of Area 51 under wraps for sixty years, they can pull this off.

Thoughts?

[ronnykmarshall]

1. Uh, ok!

:tinfoilhat:

[kcwayne]

2. Why bother?

Its just a corpse. It not like its an Ayatollah or something. Wait, you're right, it is an Ayatollah!! Death to the great Satan!