Leslie Nielsen's Fort Lauderdale Gravestone -- Fart Joke Included

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Leslie Nielsen, a Fort Lauderdale favorite, died November 28, 2010, at age 84.
Surely late actor Leslie Nielsen couldn't still be making jokes, six months after he died of pneumonia, could he?

He is, and don't call us Shirley.

Pictures today show Nielsen's Fort Lauderdale gravesite at Evergreen Cemetery -- which, of course, wouldn't be complete without a couple of one-liners.

"Let 'er rip," a reference to Nielsen's penchant for fart-related humor, is engraved on his gravestone -- something he had declared his epitaph should read a few years before his death.

There's also a bench facing the gravestone reading, "Sit down whenever you can" -- which was the advice he would give aspiring actors looking to make it big.

We went over to the cemetery to check it out, where we ran into a Nielsen fan who says she still can't believe Nielsen is dead.

The woman tells New Times she's friends of an unnamed Nielsen ex-girlfriend who knew plenty of stories about the man that she says she probably shouldn't tell a reporter.

Then her phone went off -- playing the Naked Gun theme song of course.

Check out the photos of Nielsen's gravesite below:

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Photo by Matthew Hendley

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Photo by Matthew Hendley

Click here if you missed New Times' obit written shortly after Nielsen, Fort Lauderdale's favorite Canadian, died in November 2010.


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