The only fact marring the sepulchral seriousness of this conversation is that it is occurring as we sit side by side on full-size Western saddles, mounted on poles, facing the bar.

sepulchral (adj) 1: of or relating to a sepulchre; 2: gruesomely indicative of death or the dead [syn: charnel, ghastly]; 3: suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial [syn: funereal] – Doonesbury’s War