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Quite spiffy. I like the mask, I can't say i know many people who make their own masks.
jake_fink said:Arsenic and old steak?
Phil said:That's astounding Lauren. I must say, bravo on your skills. I wish I could have the skill and patience to make my own clothes.
Quigley Brown said:I plan to have a few people over for dinner.....
Marc Chevalier said:You can see the caskets in plain view, right behind the crypts' gated doors. Sometimes, the coffins have partially disintegrated, exposing some of their contents ...
scotrace said:Somewhere in - Europe? - there is an open "mausoleum" in which the dead have been dressed and placed, usually on some kind of hooks or seated, in the open. The family can visit the bodies. You can see everything from skeletons to disconcertingly recent interments.
I'm sure I saw that on T.V. - Italy maybe?
Say, Scot, don't they have an incorruptible dead child over there?scotrace said:Palermo: Catacombe dei Cappuccini
Not so recent new residents though. Last in 1920.
scotrace said:Somewhere in - Europe? - there is an open "mausoleum" in which the dead have been dressed and placed, usually on some kind of hooks or seated, in the open. The family can visit the bodies. You can see everything from skeletons to disconcertingly recent interments.
I'm sure I saw that on T.V. - Italy maybe?
Marc Chevalier said:Here in America, there were some 19th century patents for breathing tubes running from the inside of the buried caskets up to the surface ... just in case.
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Mike in Seattle said:I'm trying to remember the old saying that's based on something similar to the above. In England, when someone was buried, there was a string running from inside the coffin, up through the soil to metal stake that had a bell on it - the idea being if someone were buried alive, they'd pull the string to ring the bell. The family would pay some village coot to sit near the grave for some period of time listening for the bell to ring. But there's an old phrase that's pretty commonly used that relates back to that, that for the life of me escapes me at the moment.