Michael, now you see how much barrels and caskets have in common, since they both can float, regardless of content , ah ?! There is another important factor not to be overlooked; if those guys from Philly followed my instructions and made caskets exactly out of this wood, then they would've all been numbered ( as you see on the barrel ), thus recovered eventually ! Now, how do we know about caskets origins if there is no recognition system in place ?! Here America really slipped on strive for perfection...
As the famous Russian-American comedian, Yakov Smirnoff once said about America, "What a Country!" The convoluted logic as to why this wood, used for producing wine and for creating coffins is that it floats. It has something to do with American belief that Americans can do no wrong in the world.... that America and Americans are so perfect, (perhaps immortal) that even in the act of death, the floating ability of this wood would bring it souls literrally rising to the top, escaping the inevetible jaws of death. In the late spring of 1972, during the famous "Agnes Flood," in the cemetery of Old Forge Pennsylvania, caskets rose up from the water saturated graves, popped out of the ground and rolled down into the Susquehanna River below. To the the horror of the town's inhabitants, the caskets floated quickly down the river, many of which were never recovered. Yes Yakov, Eldar... America.... what a country!
