The Dead Wagon

[Sam Clements]

How can one not think of the Monty Python skit...."Bring out your dead."

Sam Clements

From: "Baker, John" <JMB at STRADLEY.COM>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 6:19 PM
Subject: The Dead Wagon


>        I was just thinking about the dead wagon of my youth, and I
> noticed that there are few attestations of this usage.  A dead wagon, as
> we used the term in south-central Kentucky, was a truck (I suppose once
> it must have been a wagon), owned by a dog food company, that would
> remove freshly dead farm animals in exchange for their meat and hides.
> I believe that dead wagons may still be in use.