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Man sends card from beyond the grave

Office joker has last laugh

Man sends card from beyond the grave
Danielle de Wolfe
12 December 2011

It’s surprising that there’s not already a line in posthumous greetings cards, to go alongside dog birthdays and ‘wishing you a spectacular colonoscopy’.

But ever the office wag, deceased ad executive Bob McCully of Pittsburgh decided to send his co-workers a greeting from beyond the grave.

McCully died in August aged 88, so his colleagues were naturally surprised when they received a Christmas card from him.

‘Hello, please don't call. I recently moved to a quiet neighborhood and …’ it began, before opening to reveal a picture of the Allegheny Cemetary gates in Lawrenceville where he is buried.

‘My new place doesn't have a phone and our gates close after dark,’ it continued. McCully, seemingly, was big on sending amusing Christmas cards, with a different theme every year. This year it was his own demise.

“It was dark humor, but it was very funny,” Newell said of the latest card. “It had a certain whimsy that took the darkness away. Bob certainly got the last laugh.”