Posted on 12/07/2005 4:05:48 PM PST by neverdem
I believe this. I have a lead pipe I use to "correct" my husband and it often makes him grumpy.
His heart stopped?
Exceptions can be made for Genius.
"I believe this. I have a lead pipe I use to "correct" my husband and it often makes him grumpy."
LOL!!!
you are too funny!!! Thank you for the good laugh!!!
We need more of your input to give us a lighter day. Also, Dr. Williams gifts to his wife, "Mrs. Williams," comes to mind.
Thank you.
Perhaps. They say lead poisoning made the Roman emperors into psychopaths.
Increasing total deafness can make a musical genius incredibly grumpy.
“Lead poisoning...”
Oh, hogwash. We all know it was DDT.
The Beethoven bone fragment belongs to California businessman Paul Kaufman. Kaufman's great-great uncle was an Austrian doctor who kept fragments after Beethoven's body was exhumed. The bones were passed down through the generations to Kaufman.
It appears the Kaufman family has a bone fetish. I know this was a famous person, but who in their right mind would pass down bones to their descendents? I'm surprised there isn't a claimed Beethoven descendent suing them for grave desecration and mental anguish.(Sarcasm)
"I think it was the syphilis that made the Roman emperors psychopaths."
Interesting. I had never given that a thought. Extremely likely indeed. That suddenly explains a lot!
Thank you.
We geniuses are often grumpy and obnoxious.
DUM DA DA DUMMMMM DUM DA DA Hey get out of here can't you see I'm working!
Thanks for the link.
Is that Howard Dean's excuse?
What about Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton?
Perhaps they are all afflicting with forms of syphilitic dementia.........
No, syphilis is native to the America's, and was unknown in Europe before Columbus and the Spanish accidentally 'discovered' it.
I think the other poster was being humorous.
I have to bitch slap my ho' to keep her in line. She only bleeds from the lip when I'm really pissed.
It's just not as funny with the genders reversed.
What do you call a woman with two black eyes? Nothing. You already told her twice. Hahahahaha!
If the truth actually came out about how many guys like me were married to abusive wives, jokes like these would be as funny as holocaust jokes.
I am confused (obviously). Then I was thinking of smallpox where the Europeans introduced that small pox to the New World.
As I am typing this, I am now remembering that syphilis was the New World's payback to the Europeans for their smallpox gift. Can you verify this?
Thank you.
P.S. Then it was DDT that also did in the Romans.
Well there you go: I never knew Beethoven ate paint chips.
> I think it was the syphilis that made the Roman emperors psychopaths.
Syphilis was brought to Europe from the New World by Columbus. Of composers, Schubert died of it.
But to get back to the thread.... when he had become deaf, LVB conversed with his friends--he had them--via pencil and paper in notebooks that have been preserved. No analysis of them that I'm aware of has ever suggested he had lead poisoning.
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