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Occulis
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 Posted: 01/12/05 - 16:18 Post subject: Wonder if this is true: "Dead ringer" origins
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England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave.
When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive.
So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.
Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."
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Rennol
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Posted: 01/12/05 - 16:22 Post subject:
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Don't know if all of what you posted is true but they did design coffins with bells attached at the surface, particularly during the plagues, because of the haste taken to bury people. Sometimes due to that haste they wouldn't take the time to make sure the people were actually dead.
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Silvermouse
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Posted: 01/12/05 - 16:41 Post subject:
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Damnit. That would have been a much awesomer concept for the "Saved By the Bell" tv show. 
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Nictathan
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Posted: 01/12/05 - 16:51 Post subject:
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Tiluvas
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Posted: 01/12/05 - 17:21 Post subject:
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| Silvermouse wrote: | | Damnit. That would have been a much awesomer concept for the "Saved By the Bell" tv show. |
As long as they kept Mr Belding and Screech, I would agree 100%.
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themy
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Posted: 01/12/05 - 18:15 Post subject:
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Yeah it's true. They would bury people who were actually alive because the flasks people drank hard A out of were made with iron, and people ingested large ammounts of iron with the alcohol and went into comas that could last a week. This is why Jewish people hold a "wake", and why they had bells attached to people in graveyards. And of course to help people overcome their fears of being burried alive.
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Occulis
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Posted: 01/12/05 - 18:20 Post subject:
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apparently themy got the same spam email i did
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atarom
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Tiluvas
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Posted: 01/12/05 - 18:29 Post subject:
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That modest mouse cd really sucked. The only good song is Float On and the one before it. The other songs are too "noisy" and are just an orgy of different instruments thrown together.
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atarom
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Posted: 01/12/05 - 18:31 Post subject:
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no way man, blame it on the tetons is better than you are
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Occulis
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Posted: 01/12/05 - 19:02 Post subject:
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it was easier to copy and paste from an email than wait for snopes to load up. also, i knew someone here would Snopes it for me.
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lauren000
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Posted: 01/12/05 - 19:14 Post subject:
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urban legends
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motherface
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Posted: 01/12/05 - 19:22 Post subject:
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| themy wrote: | | This is why Jewish people hold a "wake", and why they had bells attached to people in graveyards. |
Jews don't hold m***********g wakes m**********r. You mean Catholics?
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Posted: 01/12/05 - 19:26 Post subject:
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screech is a fucktard
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Okami
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Posted: 01/12/05 - 22:38 Post subject:
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so how did "dead ringer" go from that , into meaning someone that looks just like someone else?
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Gethy
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Posted: 01/12/05 - 22:39 Post subject:
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black cadillacs is a good song 
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Bait Masterson
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Posted: 01/14/05 - 22:37 Post subject:
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Anthrax back then was notorious for making you appear dead when you werent.
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Scrabler
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Posted: 01/14/05 - 22:48 Post subject:
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| Okami wrote: | | so how did "dead ringer" go from that , into meaning someone that looks just like someone else? |
They looked just like a dead person?
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