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STRIPPERS FOR FUNERALS - Jeph has foretold the future!!!

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no one special:
2006:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=655
“I haven’t seen that many tear-stained dollar bills since dad hired a stripper for my uncle’s funeral.”

2011:
http://io9.com/5819625/in-taiwan-you-can-hire-a-stripper-for-your-funeral

WHOA.

pwhodges:
Good grief!

And I thought when I saw the thread title that I had another spam message to delete...

Is it cold in here?:
Google informs me of an anthropological discussion of the phenomenon:
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/55/054.html

Maybe Mr. Bianchi introduced the custom to Taiwan on one of his travels.

EDIT: there's a documentary about it: http://people.cas.sc.edu/moskowitz/dancingforthedead.htm

Tiogyr:
Pretty sure this goes back at least as far as Viking funerals, what with those consisting of an orgy and human sacrifice and all.

SirDudley:
Welp, consider me  :psyduck: at this news.

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