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From: "cliff.hayes" <>
Subject: Re: [NYDUTCHE] HAWLEY Family - A Neglected Tomb - Salt Point- 1928
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 21:47:05 -0600
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I do not know what photo you are looking at. I sent a later comic that
shows a man standing on a (labeled) soapbox in one of the scenes. That is
the way it was used. I saw some of them as I walked in London where I was
temporarily stationed in 1945.

Don't tell me you have never heard of a "guy getting on his soapbox", a
phrase used about a person who gets on a theme and goes on -- and on --- and
on!. It refers to someone who has a pet theme and drags the conversaton to
it repeatedly. It may be political, religious, or nearly anything else.

Cliff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ginny" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [NYDUTCHE] HAWLEY Family - A Neglected Tomb - Salt Point- 1928


> Thanks Cliff,
>
> I guess I am wondering how large those soap boxes were - large enough to
> bury a person in???
>
> "Two of the bodies lie in caskets. The bones of a third person lie in a
> soap box with a wire screen covering. The body of a man lies at the left
> of the entrance. The woman's body lies at the right. The soap box is in
> a corner. The glass in the casket of the man is broken. The tops of both
> caskets have been removed and put back in place by many who have visited
> the place."
>
> Oh Gosh this is getting Morbid? I guess I have alot to learn about caskets
> because I didn't know they had glass in them either - guess that is
> because I have never been in one<smile> Like when the lid was opened was
> there clear glass to look through at the body and that is what was broken
> by the tops being removed and put back often??? Anyone up on historical
> undertaking on this list<smile>!
>
> Ginny
>
> On 11/4/2006 9:30:12 PM, cliff.hayes () wrote:
>
> A soap box originated, I believe, in England long before microphones or
> telephones. Anyone who wanted to speak in public would take a box,
> usually
> a soap box seemed to be the right size, take it to the area where he
> decided
> to make his speech, set down his (soap) box, step up on it and start
> hawking
> for an audience; hence he got on his "soap box". I believe this was still
> in favor in WWII and well may be in vogue today.
>
> Cliff Hayes
>
>
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