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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Tiny Sea Creatures That Want to Eat Your Bones
    So boneworms are the new zombies eh? Now where have I seen this before.... #boneworm
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Tiny Sea Creatures That Want to Eat Your Bones
    Well its a lot prettier then zombies. But can it say "BOOOOOOOONNNNNNNEEESSSSSS"? #boneworm
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Tiny Sea Creatures That Want to Eat Your Bones
    Biggle boggle, sticks and stoggles! It's the Bone Burglar! #boneworm
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    Image of golddiggersof2033 golddiggersof2033
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Tiny Sea Creatures That Want to Eat Your Bones
    Which way to the gun show?? #boneworm
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    10/28/09

    In reply to Buildings Where the Walls are Lined with Human Bones
    My new vacation list. #ossuaries
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    10/26/09

    In reply to Buildings Where the Walls are Lined with Human Bones
    i would love to live in a house that had tons of human and animal bones everywhere but if i did it might be a little like the texas chainsaw massacre home. #ossuaries
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    10/26/09

    In reply to Buildings Where the Walls are Lined with Human Bones
    I make no bones about it, I find it a bit of a grave subject. #ossuaries
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    Image of RavenNemain RavenNemain
    10/26/09

    In reply to Buildings Where the Walls are Lined with Human Bones
    I figure, with the green movement picking up steam, this sort of architecture is ripe for a revival - no wasting of precious land for dead bodies, an endlessly renewable building material (or, at least when we run out of the material, we won't need to do much building anymore...) Who wouldn't want to live in a condo made of human femurs? #ossuaries
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    10/26/09

    @RavenNemain: Why stop there? Soylent Green is people! #ossuaries
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    Image of RavenNemain RavenNemain
    10/26/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: The government should be paying us for this - we are solving a bunch of the world's problems today! #ossuaries
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    Image of ackthbbft ackthbbft
    10/26/09

    In reply to Buildings Where the Walls are Lined with Human Bones
    "Santa Maria della Concezione in Rome, where 4,000 Capuchin friars rest; a plaque inside reads: "What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be:"

    I recognized the Capuchin photos. That is where we get the term "cappucino" from, named for the drink matching the color of their cloaks. #ossuaries
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    10/26/09

    @ackthbbft: Thanks! I love bits of info like that. #ossuaries
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    Image of artistentropy artistentropy
    10/26/09

    In reply to Buildings Where the Walls are Lined with Human Bones
    May I also suggest the Church of St. Ursula in Cologne, Germany. The Golden Chamber is lined with the bones of 11,000 virgins (according to legend) done in intricate designs. #ossuaries
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    10/26/09

    @artistentropy: My money is on 2855 virgins and 8145 liars. #ossuaries
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    Image of Vulcan Has No Moon Vulcan Has No Moon
    10/26/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Actually their weren't 11,000 virgins. It was a miss-translation and a myth. There was either one virgin "Undecimilia", or Ursula, who's name was misread as "Undicimila" (11,000)....or their was an eleven year old 'bride-to-be' named Ursula, who along with 10 companions, were killed by Huns...before the 9th century Ursula and company were referred to as "11 martyred virgins" until a monk at The Basilica of St. Ursula in Cologne transcribed the story as "11 thousand virgins". #ossuaries
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    10/26/09

    In reply to Buildings Where the Walls are Lined with Human Bones
    I really wish I had the money and time to go see these. #ossuaries
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    Image of MarlboroTestMonkey7 MarlboroTestMonkey7
    10/26/09

    @LittleDragon: Don't worry, what you are, they once were. #ossuaries
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    10/26/09

    @MarlboroTestMonkey7: Are you sure? I want proof. I need plane tickets and hotel accommodations to all of these location to check. #ossuaries
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    10/26/09

    In reply to Buildings Where the Walls are Lined with Human Bones
    "inhabitants came largely from the nearby hospital after the adjoining graveyard proved insufficient"

    That would be how I'd decided which hospital to not go to . . .

    "952 skulls were used in the tower, but most of the skulls were pried out and returned to the families of the rebels"

    I'm sure that made the grieving families feel much better "uh . . . here's a skull . . . it might belong to your son . . . or a friend of his . . . well, it's definitely from someone who was on the same side as him". #ossuaries
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    10/26/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Someone is awfully picky about whose remains they get. #ossuaries
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    10/26/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: I wish we had a way to give points for good comments. I would give you at least +3. #ossuaries
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/26/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: "THIS IS A WOMAN'S SKULL!" #ossuaries
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    10/26/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: Yeah... about that... #ossuaries
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    10/26/09

    In reply to Buildings Where the Walls are Lined with Human Bones
    "What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be."

    Capuchin friars - history's awkward conversationalists. #ossuaries
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    10/26/09

    @AngryEddy: Did you just say that in a deep, gravely voice trailing off into a whisper? #ossuaries
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    Image of Vulcan Has No Moon Vulcan Has No Moon
    10/26/09

    @Hamslicer: I imagined the voice to be more Yoda-y. #ossuaries
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/26/09

    In reply to Buildings Where the Walls are Lined with Human Bones
    I visited the one in Rome waaay back in high school. Morbidly fascinating. #ossuaries
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    Image of blackeyedgurl blackeyedgurl
    09/22/09

    In reply to Sparkle Free, For Her Pleasure
    Caption:
    B: My girlfriend can beat up your girlfriend.
    M: Mine can see her coming.
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