[TheForge] Good ole days ?

Sun Feb 17 09:21:03 2002

this way Im never behind on my projects

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Brown" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 12:31 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Good ole days ?


> 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 [email protected]
>
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