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Return Of The Damned After 400 Years
The Observer/Guardian (UK ^
| 1-11-2004
| Robin McKie
Posted on 01/11/2004 8:24:33 PM PST by blam
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To: cyborg; farmfriend
"put me on your ping list please stuff is too good to miss!"FReeper 'farmfriend' manages the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list.
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posted on
01/11/2004 9:33:06 PM PST
by
blam
To: cyborg; blam
Consider yourself added. If you ever change your mind, or I get you on the wrong list, just let me know.
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posted on
01/11/2004 9:35:37 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: blam
Return Of The Damned After 400 Years Damn.
I thought this article was going to be about hordes of zombies awaking from their graves to pillage civilization, only to be stopped by well-armed patriots, who after killing the zombies, enjoy the eternal gratitude of millions of women that they prevent from having their brains eaten.
I guess that fantasy isn't going to get realized today.
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posted on
01/11/2004 9:39:38 PM PST
by
Mulder
(Fight the future)
To: farmfriend
thanks!
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posted on
01/11/2004 9:39:42 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: Mulder
I thought this article was going to be about hordes of zombies awaking from their graves to pillage civilization, only to be stopped by well-armed patriots, who after killing the zombies, enjoy the eternal gratitude of millions of women that they prevent from having their brains eaten.You have to wait until the general election to see that happen-- think Dean, think ghoul.
To: pierrem15
I saw eight zombies tonight.
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posted on
01/11/2004 9:51:38 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: blam
I wonder how rotten somebody would get inside if they could really do that. Like, I'm watching Dan Rather, and he pisses me off, so I wag my finger at the TV and I say, "Curse you, Dan Rather!" And the next day, Dan Rather drops dead.
I don't have Dan Rather to watch anymore, so I switch to Peter Jennings. Couple days later, he's dead too. Fell over. Just like that. I'd have to invest some serious money in anger management classes. |
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posted on
01/11/2004 9:52:10 PM PST
by
Nick Danger
( With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.)
To: John Beresford Tipton
LOL!!
To: blam
"It Takes A Village"
To: blam
Seems like the curse rebounded on them, a lot of them seem to have ended up in Massachusetts, Lynn of all places.
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:42:11 PM PST
by
Little Bill
(The pain of being a Red Sox Fan.)
To: Paul C. Jesup; blam
If 70 men and women dropped dead at once for no reason, wouldn't you investigate. I suspect that this is not from 1577 but rather later. The medical use of cadavers was rare then but much more common later. These skeletons may date from the late 1700s and into the 1800s when much medical research was being done. It was also a period when "bodysnatchers" and "ghouls" would steal the newly dead for doctors desperate for knowledge. I wonder how long the mentioned Prison existed. These could be inmates executed much later than Jenks curse.
To: Mulder
The day is young, don't put the bullets away just yet.
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posted on
01/12/2004 1:42:51 AM PST
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Did you see me escaping? I was all like WOOB, WOOB, WOOB, WOOB, WOOB, WOOB!!!)
To: Paul C. Jesup
If 70 men and women dropped dead at once for no reason, wouldn't you investigate. ..In modern times...Yes. Unless, Your the Clintons..Do that, Then You take the "Arkansas Dirt Nap"...the Clintons' Dead Associates List is how @ 144 +/-, I think.
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posted on
01/12/2004 2:33:52 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
To: Swordmaker
These have been dated from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries
They'd been dumping bodies in the same spot for some time. They are supposing some of the earlier bodies may be from the curse incident.
To: Fifth Business
Thanks for the ping! I hesitate to confess that this is an area of interest (late archaeology) but it is. :-D
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posted on
01/12/2004 4:37:44 AM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
To: Swordmaker
It was also a period when "bodysnatchers" and "ghouls" would steal the newly dead for doctors desperate for knowledge. I wonder how long the mentioned Prison existed. These could be inmates executed much later than Jenks curse. I'm with you. This was the courthouse/prison burial ground and the bodies are from over a long period of years. Pure speculation with regard to how the earlier subjects died.
As for the dissections, many were done illictly by the medical students on bodies provided by the "ghouls", and what better place to bury the evidence than the prison graveyard?
Burke & Hare alert!
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01/12/2004 4:40:29 AM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
To: Swordmaker
I wonder how long the mentioned Prison existed. According to this site, the county gaol has been on this site basically forever, although it was not one of H.M. Prisons until 1888. The prison was in use believe it or not until 1996. Most of the prison buildings are from the Victorian era, but it occupies most of the bailey of a castle that has been there since 1087 (and the tower keep is still there for that matter.) If they dig deep enough, they'll find 11th century burials in the old castle bailey as well.
Americans sometimes find it hard to comprehend that you can't put a shovel in the ground most places in England without disturbing something really, really old. It is fascinating to read the historical impact statements that are published by the various county councils. The London ones make especially good reading - you can almost see the poor archaeologist tearing his hair as he tries to list the Victorian, Georgian, medieval, Roman, and prehistoric remains before the bulldozers roll in . . .
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posted on
01/12/2004 6:29:55 AM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
To: blam
The typhus curse is evidence of middle ages WMD!
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posted on
01/12/2004 8:12:57 AM PST
by
Henchman
(I Hench, therefore I am!)
To: Henchman
hmmm,I have never stopped to consider lice as WMD
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posted on
01/12/2004 10:45:33 AM PST
by
ruoflaw
To: Professional Engineer
ping
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posted on
01/12/2004 7:18:22 PM PST
by
msdrby
(US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
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