karalou216@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
sent the following on 3/14/2008 9:02 AM:
> On Mar 13, 11:14 pm, mooseboys...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> When Sun says "Jin" why is she saying three or four syllables? Anyone
>> speak Korean? Is she saying "Jim-honey-snoogums" or something?
>>
>> Second, I was going to ask if 2005 was a year of the Dragon, but I
>> guess not now that I saw the final act. :) So the question is: what
>> did it say on Jin's gravestone?
>
> Korean co-worker explained the tombstone: that the left column (with
> 1980 in it) is the wife's birthdate, and the 2 right-hand columns are
> the husband's birth and death dates. The middle is the family name,
> at the top is some symbol for a group - the example he gave me was
> that is would be like having a symbol for where you were born - like
> California or Kentucky, etc. Then at the bottom in the middle is some
> other symbol, and he tried valiantly to get me to understand what he
> was saying, and I could not! ....something to do with the tombstone or
> the ashes or the type of burial or something....
Could it somehow allude to the fact that there isn't actually a body
buried there?
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Jim Gysin
Waukesha, WI
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