There are some corkers in the 21st century part


I always start at the bottom and read backwards.

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Do we add them ?

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Originally posted by Heatseek:
Do we add them ?

If you think you've found one you think we should see. I doubt anyone will read em all.

2009: Martin Cassidy, a 44-year-old stand-up comedian from Blackburn, England, died from asphyxia caused by breathing in large quantities of laughing gas while watching pornography on his laptop computer, according to a coroner. The coroner ruled a case of "Death by misadventure"

2008: David Phyall, 50, the last resident in a block of flats due to be demolished in Bishopstoke, near Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom, cut his own head off with a chainsaw to highlight the injustice of being forced to move out

1927: Isadora Duncan, dancer, died of a broken neck when one of the long scarves she was known for caught on the wheel of a car in which she was a passenger



Someone told me this the other day (because I was classifying a book about Isodora Duncan and I thought they were taking the piss

207 BC: Chrysippus, a Greek stoic philosopher, is believed to have died of laughter after watching his drunk donkey attempt to eat figs.

2008: Gerald Mellin, a U.K. businessman, committed suicide by tying one end of a rope around his neck and the other to a tree. He then hopped into his Aston Martin DB7 and drove down a main road in Swansea until the rope decapitated him. He supposedly did this as an act of revenge against his ex-wife for leaving him

sounded way too odd ... but...

full story here...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...revenge-ex-wife.html


Z.

I actually remember reading that story in the paper Zaphod.

there was one today that made me giggle (at the headline not the story) but i am not going there cause next door people really didn't find it funny

Was that the chocolate one Yogi?

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Originally posted by King Kev:
I actually remember reading that story in the paper Zaphod.

But.. but.. he had an Aston Martin DB7 .. how much better could his life to get


Z.

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Originally posted by Angel of the North:
Was that the chocolate one Yogi?

yup, i ended up asking the wonderful lori to pull it cause i could see the way the wind was blowing

I read the start at work...never mind eh

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Originally posted by Zaphod:

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Originally posted by King Kev:
I actually remember reading that story in the paper Zaphod.

But.. but.. he had an Aston Martin DB7 .. how much better could his life to get


Z.

I think if I had a DB7 I'd get laid 7 times a week.

Read through them until I got to Vic Morrow death and followed a thread until I got to this fascinating article. Cheers Kev Didn't know this

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Originally posted by mufcdiver:
Read through them until I got to Vic Morrow death and followed a thread until I got to this fascinating article. Cheers Kev Didn't know this

I didn't expect to see any films I liked but there's some good ones on the list.
The Vic Morrow one I hadn't heard about before, and The Twilight Zone movie I enoyed too.

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Originally posted by King Kev:

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Originally posted by mufcdiver:
Read through them until I got to Vic Morrow death and followed a thread until I got to this fascinating article. Cheers Kev Didn't know this

I didn't expect to see any films I liked but there's some good ones on the list.
The Vic Morrow one I hadn't heard about before, and The Twilight Zone movie I enoyed too.

I was a massive Twilight Zone fan and remember being appalled at the movie version
Now I know three people died only makes it worse!!

mufcdiver, I was only 8 when I first saw it and haven't seen it since, so I have no comment.
I love the old B&W twilight zones.
The pig people sticks in my mind with the normal human having plastic surgery to look like a pig as she is seen as extremely ugly.

LOL First on the google list

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Originally posted by mufcdiver:
LOL First on the google list

I expect to see this in the Science and Tech Shows forum.
Thanks muchly.

EDIT: I mean the Classic/Cult Shows.

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# 1794: John Kendrick, an American sea captain and explorer, was killed in the Hawaiian Islands when a British ship mistakenly used a loaded cannon to fire a salute to Kendrick's vessel

and they've been getting us back ever since

Mother Teresa died in an incident involving a tuna and a skateboard.

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Originally posted by Pol Pot Noodle:
Mother Teresa died in an incident involving a tuna and a skateboard.

Does that mean bets are off ?

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Originally posted by Darthhoob:

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# 1794: John Kendrick, an American sea captain and explorer, was killed in the Hawaiian Islands when a British ship mistakenly used a loaded cannon to fire a salute to Kendrick's vessel

and they've been getting us back ever since

Yes...so now we know where 'friendly fire' originated from.

1601: Tycho Brahe, according to legend, died of complications resulting from a strained bladder at a banquet. It would have been extremely bad etiquette to leave the table before the meal was finished, so he stayed until he became fatally ill. This version of events has since been brought into question as other causes of death (murder by Johannes Kepler, suicide, and mercury poisoning among others) have come to the fore.

'Supersizers' could have ended very differently for Giles.

Heres what a *friend* at last Xmas Eve tried ...

he turned off the electric,
unplugged the fuses,
and then went to the tap wet his hand,
and then stuck his fist there ...
and then flicked on the power ...


lets just say the kick /throwback was superb Buckeroo Bonziiiiii .....Im told ..lol

Makes me think of Marty McFly in Back to the Future when he turns the volume up on his guitar amp.