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The Song Challenge:   It's the Great 2000 Booga Booga Halloween Challenge! Get your holey sheets and brooms out for:  Drop-Dead Decor (Terre Haute, Indiana) -- An online company is digging for Halloween business with a line of furniture that would make the Addams Family envious. Your Coffin Company builds and sells coffins to consumers eager to give their home decor a distinctive flair. The company has devised 101 uses for the average wooden coffin -- aside from the usual purpose -- including as a coffee table, wine rack, bookshelf and entertainment center. "We decided ... this was the ultimate conversation piece. We have a motto that you should get to know your coffin before you're buried in it," said Brad Miller, co-owner of the online company. The coffins, made from oak or maple wood, start at $389 for a basic, no-frills model. Miller said their web site averages about 50,000 visitors a day, some of whom have sought phone booth coffins and even coffin beds. (Click here to see pics of the Lovely Coffin Twins - I wonder if they do in-home installation?).

I Saw Her Box by mousethief

She said she'd take me to her hideaway
And let me see her box
I said "Let's do it right away"
Cos she was such a fox

I was getting pretty excited
And I said, "Do you do this often?"
She opened up her front door
And showed me her new coffin

I saw her box in the living room
It was a coffee table
I saw her box in the kitchen
Where she hangs her knives and ladles

I saw her box in her bedroom
It was an entertainment center
I saw every box she had there
Except the one I'd hoped to enter

Then she showed me to the door again
And wished me a good night
I went back to the barroom
Where the neon lights are bright

I got a beer and settled down
In the seat I sit in often
I've never been so disappointed
As the day I saw the coffins.

©2000 Alex E. Riggle. All Rights Reserved.

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