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Full headline: Sardinian scientists believe they've traced the roots of the 'death-defying' sardonic grin to a plant commonly found on the Italian island
1 posted on
05/25/2009 2:18:15 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: Red_Devil 232
Indispensible — tubular water-dropwart topic. :’)
2 posted on
05/25/2009 2:20:05 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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3 posted on
05/25/2009 2:20:18 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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5 posted on
05/25/2009 2:36:15 PM PDT by
Krankor
(iT EMINDS ME)
To: SunkenCiv
6 posted on
05/25/2009 2:38:06 PM PDT by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: SunkenCiv
The writer screwed up............
Gogle knows
“Did you mean: tubular water-dropwort”
as do us botanists, even semipro types
8 posted on
05/25/2009 2:46:31 PM PDT by
bert
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To: SunkenCiv
gave condemned men a potion that made them smile before dying. It's just gas.
To: SunkenCiv
Going back to the early days of the Batman comics, part of the Joker’s MO was to poison people such that they’d die with a grin on their face. Interesting to see that that was actually possible.
10 posted on
05/25/2009 3:07:16 PM PDT by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: SunkenCiv
According to ancient reports, the plant was used in pre-Roman Sardinia for the ritual killing of elderly people who were unable to support themselves.
A burden to society, the people "were intoxicated with the sardonic herb and then killed by dropping from a high rock or by beating to death," Giovanni Appendino of the University of the Eastern Piedmont, and Mauro Ballero, of Cagliari University in Sardinia, and colleagues wrote in the latest issue of the U.S. Journal of Natural Products.
17 posted on
05/25/2009 6:53:49 PM PDT by
visualops
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To: SunkenCiv
19 posted on
05/26/2009 2:41:48 AM PDT by
NonLinear
(If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.)
To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Damn! all these years I’ve been perfecting a sardonic grin to dismay and frighten my enemies only to find out it isn’t a mark of culture but agriculture.
Oh, well, back tothe Wong-Baker grimace scale.
24 posted on
05/27/2009 3:44:10 PM PDT by
wildbill
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