[TheForge] Good ole days ?

[Dave Brown]

Hey Shannell ... have you checked the date on your computer lately?  I 
realize that Oz is the antipodes of  Wisconsin and on the other side of the 
International Date Line.  But you are in the same year as the rest of us, 
aren't you?

Look at the date below taken from the header of your post.

Dave Brown

At 00:09 02/18/01 +1030, you wrote:
>Yeah but surely the last one cant be true??? burying 4% of "dead" people
>alive???? Bizzare if it is.

<big ol' snip>

> >
> > England is old and small and they started running out of places
> > to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the
> > bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these
> > coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the
>inside
> > and they realized they had been burying people alive.  So they thought
>they
> > would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin
> > and up through the ground and  tie it to a bell.
> >
> > Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night  (the "graveyard
> > shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could  be "saved by the
>bell"
> > or was considered a "dead ringer."
> >
> > And that's the truth... (and whoever said that History was boring?!)
> >
> >
> >
> > Dave Mudge lama@lametalsmiths.org