Yep - Burial Rites, that's the one.
That is an absolutely cracker of a story though, I imagine it provided for many laughs many times over. I used to work with a lady who used to write down the funny shit kids wrote in their creative pieces - and she would pull it out occassionally - it was actually good to lighten the staffroom at different times.
- Her favourite was a creative piece, which came under the thematic 'Belonging' study. The line, 'In every threesome there is always a twosome and a onesome'. That clanger is probably ten years old, and it still gets mileage!
Omg that's a classic.
I always loved the Macbeth analysis: 'he went around butchering like it was his day job'.
Wish I'd kept my funny list..