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To: Slings and Arrows

Fortunately, this cannot happen here because undertakers shoot everybody full of formaldehyde.


14 posted on 05/15/2013 10:39:07 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
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To: Arthur McGowan
Fortunately, this cannot happen here because undertakers shoot everybody full of formaldehyde.

That is true. Somehow it touched off a memory of what was done in the Middle Ages when there was no use of formaldehyde. Then, they put a string next to the body inside the coffin and attached the string to a bell on top of the grave. A person was assigned to stay at the grave site and listen. If the person was not dead he or she would pull on the string and the grave would be immediately excavated.

This practice is associated with an English phrase but I forget it (I forget a lot in my old age). Does anyone remember it?

36 posted on 05/16/2013 5:13:33 AM PDT by OldPossum
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