Rverence
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Almost 200 years ago, Wales was a far more religious place.For many, church was an intrinsic part of everyday life.However, one man was willing to go to quite extreme levels to make sure he didn't get waylaid by the devil in a bid to get into heaven.
John Renie was a house painter who lived in Monmouthshire (Wales, UK) during the early 1800s. He died aged 33 in 1832.
His very distinctive gravestone is a 285-letter puzzle which looks like a word search.
In the middle there is a "H", from where you can start and work outwards in any direction (except diagonally) and find there are apparently 46,000 ways to spell out the sentence "Here lies John Renie", according to Find a Grave.
Formalis
Wow... this is literally next door to me and I had no idea
braindeadmullet
Nathan drakes been there.
lapesta
It says, Here Lies John Renie.
FoxyEllie
If the devil's not smart enough to see a diamond pattern and follow it from the center, he doesn't deserve ANY souls.
HitlersArtCritic
I didn't notice the diamond but I did notice the oddly bold H in the middle that would've lead to that.
SomethingWhitty
Shit I live near here!
shamefulanimal
Makes you wonder what he feared so much. Maybe he owed the devil a debt.
jef4son001
A cryptic cryptographic crypt...
HoneyBadgersAreBadAsses
A crypt ghaphic.
ScariestOfButts
This sounds like a line you'd hear in Xavier: Renegade Angel. Anyone? Hello? Well frutata then.
Whiskey461
h73o1012
Jo Jo Jo
CrackedGoggles
I'm not even religious but I'm interested in having my tombstone be like this.
mabbo
45760 ways. Each corner E has the number of ways to get to the I, plus the number of ways to get to the other I. Recurse back to the center.
mabbo
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NE2W0--1f7Aq-0u6ZbEahsRjggWqL0wSqZJESzDTR38/
drGrafenberg
...and of course his kid died at age 1...
Remmikins
I mean.. Eh
drewcharist
Yes, and this was totally serious and not at all a joke -- little known fact, jokes were invented by John T. Joke in 1982.
ElroyJetsonEsq
Everyone talks about John T. Joke but they always forget that Hydrox came first...
014368346
He died in 2011 after trying to sleep twice as hard.
YourMomJokes
https://imgur.com/OnYSm9s
LittleWheelsAndCactuss
When he tried to eat yokes twice as fast and choked
BenjoBanjo7
When he tried to lie twice at once, right?
climbmountnitaka
Joke actually stole the patent from Samuel Laffingstock, during the Humorous Revolution of '79.
uberarticuno
When he tried to be happy twice at the same time
stephenhester127001
That's some Dan Brown level shit there.
NineColonels100
The Devil plays Jumble every morning, this guy is burning in hell for sure.
TearsAreGoodLube
I imagine the widow pulling up with a marker and sitting down in a chair with her tea trying to find all the words
smileyhead
“and also John, son of the above”
Pinkee
When I die, I want to be spread across all my favourite places. Also, I don't want to be creamated.
letstouchthatdonkey
my grandparents live just across the road from this! i never knew what it was
RootEnoch
kmufff
Rverence
That’s about it, I’m digging my own grave on this post *calls the Pun Police*
lawrabbit
Or just write a normal sentence in Welsh. Equally baffling.
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
I spit through my teeth when I talk, can confirm.
Tashchick
Mae cymraeg yn iaith hawdd iawn
pgdave
did gyre and gimble in the wabe?
CotterPyke
i surmise that in the olden days, people had lots of time to sit around and think up shit like this since they had no internet or cable
slagathorstiffnips
Gonna steel this when I die.
wolfwolf2000
By an amazing "coincidence" he lived exactly the same amount of days as there are ways of finding his name on the gravestone.
tiamanicus
Here lies John Reine
hisshash
I grew up here, neat. Saw this most days as we smoked here before school
banjak
Confused the stonemason more.
Shamorza
Since the stone carver knew who the actual deceased person was I assume he didn't need to decipher that. I suspect he made some extra 1/2
Shamorza
2/2 money by snitching to the devil
Rverence
Just reread, Imgur keeps deleting my text after I press Post, John made it himself - I missed adding this back in , sorry
Shamorza
... but... but how did he know when he was gonna die?
Freakingdoomguy
Suicide?
IAintAfraidONoGhost
Did it work?
welluhwhatdoyouwantmetosay
It would if the devil could read.
Mockingbirb
Yes
SignHerePlease
Nah, ol' boi's in Hell now
housev1l
Nah. The devil is pretty smart. Dunno why someone thought this rock would confuse him.
shyriath
It was, right up till @OP went and spoiled it.
DropKickHead
I cant believe i didnt see this earlier, OP totally called that fool out
IAintAfraidONoGhost
Not if it wasn't his real name...
Rverence
I' ve seen all 345 series of Supernatural, the Devil is too busy with them Winchester Bros and Buffy to notice John missing
ladysmurfette
John as in their father? :)
Rverence
John Rennie *makes a noise to illustrate there are too many Johns ;) *
ladysmurfette
I like you
TsubakiTragic
I intend to be cremated and my ashes spread on the sandhills overlooking Swanbourne nudist beach, West Aust. That or a cryptic grave.
RosencrantzNGuildensternNeverLived
Yes,where all the old hairy naked aussie men drag their balls up the hill to urinate after many beers.
UnattendedDeviant
I'm thinking the day after I'm cremated they will discover a way to revive the dead...but the body must be intact.
RefurbishedArcReactor
I want my remains spread around Disney World. Also, I don't want to be cremated.
GodEmperor0fMankind
I'm going to have a Viking funeral and an obsidian obelisk gravestone.
Andrizzle0159
Better start saving up then
RoundThreeFIGHT
My husband said to donate him to science as his real goal of being fed to bears might be too difficult to accommodate
Nurse4Brains
ILikedTheirOldStuffBetter
I'll probably just donate my body to science like my dad did. Good for med students & spares my family thousands on a funeral & headstone.
jojagiraffe
Have you ever been to Swanbourne?
TsubakiTragic
Yeppers
jojagiraffe
And you wanna over look that for eternity? You’re a brave person
4thBillyGoatGruff
To each their own. I wanna be taxidermied and my corpse put in the back of a NY cab.
weerdo
I hate the crematorium in my home town. So when I die I'll let my wife put a stick of dynamite up my and get me cremated there
weerdo
Ass.. I forgot ass.. how can I forget my own ass. I'm sitting on it
CaffeineManic
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/explosive-end-to-crematorium-1194031.html
UnattendedDeviant
Your wife will then spend her golden years in jail.
weerdo
But that would be her problem, I won't be around to hear her bitchin about it
DeadPanPizza
A solid plan.