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Perfect Haunted Mansion Tombstone
Every Disney picture tells a Disney story, don't it, and today our perfect picture comes from Ralph, who fearlessly haunted the new queue at Disney World's Haunted Mansion and snapped a stone cold shot of Brother Claude's eerie tombstone.
Park Perfect has become so popular that I've decided to feature a shot from a different photographer each day rather than devote an entire week to one photographer. You'll still see multiple shots from the same shooters, just not consecutively.
As most everyone knows by now, the epitaphs on the Haunted Mansion tombstones refer to the Imagineers instrumental in creating that attraction.
But you don't need to know anything about the Imagineers whose names are on the tombstones. You can simply enjoy the silliness of the rhymes. For example:
At peaceful rest lies Brother Claude
Planted here beneath this sod
It doesn't really rhyme, unless you consider Claude to be a clod. The solution is to affect a Boston accent and pronounce 'sod' as 'sawd'.
Claude, by the way, was Claude Coats, a Disney Legend who worked as a show designer for the original Haunted Mansion in Disneyland.
This perfect pic of Claude's tombstone was taken just a few days ago, and it captures magnificently the weathered 'stone' surface, with its intentional imperfections, and even the patchy grass growing alongside.
Behold, foolish mortal:
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This perfect pic courtesy of Ralph [PhotoNut2010], and used with his permission.
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