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Corrie headstone

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Monadami · 16/10/2009 23:01

This evening's Corrie showed Maria weeping at Liam's grave on the first anniversary of his death.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but having buried both my parents, we didn't lay the headstone until a year after death, as we were told all the earth needs time to settle or the stone will sink.

On that basis, how come Liam already has a Headstone? I know it's only fiction, but reality please!

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UnquietDad · 16/10/2009 23:09

I know, this will invalidate all the careful work they put into soap operas having terribly realistic attention to detail.

I was only saying this the other day as I popped round to my neighbour's house to carry on our illicit affair and heard the latest details of the drug-related murder in the house opposite, and the two latest teenage pregnancies up the road. On the way back, I stopped off for a quick cup of tea in the cafe a hundred yards up the road, even though I have a serviceable kettle, a box of teabags and milk in the fridge. I nodded in passing to the next-door-but-one's lad who has got his first job working as a mechanic in the local garage a stone's throw from his front door, and the girl from the house behind us who works as a model in the fashion studio next to it, also thirty seconds from her door.

And don't get me started on what Mrs Jones at no.32 has got under her patio.

Tommy · 16/10/2009 23:12

I suppose if it was like real life, no-one would watch it....

Poledra · 16/10/2009 23:13

I knew you were a writer, UQD, I didn't realise you were a script-writer

aWitchForLifeNotJustHalloween · 16/10/2009 23:14

pmsl UQD - love it

Bleatblurt · 16/10/2009 23:14

My DS2's headstone was up after about 5 months.

UnquietDad · 16/10/2009 23:17

Have I been funny enough to be in the round-up now?

aWitchForLifeNotJustHalloween · 16/10/2009 23:21

cor, deffo uqd!

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 16/10/2009 23:21

I'm no expert, but does Liam not share his brother's grave? The one who was married to Carla and died in a car crash? So the headstone was initially put up for him (more than a year ago) and simply re-inscribed to add Liam's name.

Bleatblurt · 16/10/2009 23:21

No, I hear you have to offer MP sexual favours AND be funny.

UnquietDad · 16/10/2009 23:26

Apologies if anyone is offended by my being flippant on a thread where people have referred to their bereavements, though...

Bleatblurt · 16/10/2009 23:27

Yes, how rude of you UD. Away with you to the naughty corner!

aWitchForLifeNotJustHalloween · 16/10/2009 23:28

butterball

and I am still pmsl uqd, tut tut at all of us then

UnquietDad · 16/10/2009 23:31

I'd offer Caroline Flint MP sexual favours. She is a phwoarghsome goddess. I don't think I could be funny with her, though. She seems very stern.

aWitchForLifeNotJustHalloween · 16/10/2009 23:43
Poledra · 16/10/2009 23:44

And it doesn't matter what the thread was about originally, UQD managed to shoehorn in a reference about his latest crush........

UnquietDad · 16/10/2009 23:46

Sorry! feel free to get back on topic. I've finished now...

Poledra · 16/10/2009 23:49

Finished what????

Ouchhhh · 17/10/2009 00:03

Not only that but they've got the date of his death wrong too (twas Friday October 10th last year NOT October 16th as is on the headstone currently)

Whatever next, October 22nd next year?

UnquietDad · 17/10/2009 00:08

TV is always doing this.

In Buffy, there are at least two conflicting birth-dates given for Buffy.

And the convoluted nature of the exact date of Rose Tyler's birth in Doctor Who is a nightmare which I am happy to explain to anyone who would not be bored shitless by it. Reconciling all the different references in just two years of the programme is almost impossible!

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Monadami · 17/10/2009 00:41

Yes you may have a point Oldlady. Paul his brother, who the parents seem to have forgotten about probably does share a grave, hence the headstone.

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OldLadyKnowsNothing · 17/10/2009 02:22

Aha!

I'd forgotten their still-born son Paul, from April 2008.

And yes, the parents are surprisingly quiet about their other dead son.

(Wouldn't she be dreadful as your MIL? )

Nancy66 · 17/10/2009 14:06

I'm assuming the actress that plays Maria is pregnant in real life - as they're doing the old soap thing of having her holding something in front of her stomach all the time. So far we've had: cushion, bunch of flowers, kettle, christening outfit and magazine.

kittycatty · 17/10/2009 18:28

I was thinking the same there is liam, his brother paul and baby son paul in the same grave. Also wasnt the grave near a wall i even think on a slope not next to a path and bench!

It is funny how the parents dont mention either paul that is also dead but i guess that soaps.

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 17/10/2009 18:29

She's due this month; filming will have been a few weeks ago, but I guess Maria will be vanishing soon.

AllGoneSouth · 17/10/2009 18:35

I don't get why Maria lets her PIL make out that Liam was such a saint - has she ever told them that he was shagging having a relationship with his brother's widow?