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    Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    What's that in his mouth? A fossilized tongue?
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    Is this the origin of brickbats?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @AmishJohn: Ha-HAW!!

    Good one!
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    Let the Right Brick In
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    03/11/09

    @Mount_Prion: God that was dumb. Fucking idiot.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @Mount_Prion: We still love you! Don't hate yourself!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    This may just be the remains of an ordinary lithophagous Venetian. Poor lady choked to death whilst eating a dich or Linguine Carbonara, with real chunks of Carbon.
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    Image of pinkiedeathhead pinkiedeathhead
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    It seems that having grave diggers dig around in pits of plague victims might have been not the best way to prevent disease from spreading. I'm just sayin'.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @pinkiedeathhead: Yeah, but this was back during the days of communal drinking cups at wells and whatnot. Delicious.
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    Image of MinervaAlpaca MinervaAlpaca
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    Coming soon from Sci-Fi:


    SHARKS VS. VAMPIRES IN VENICE!

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    Image of mad love for Astrid mad love for Astrid
    03/11/09

    @MinervaAlpaca: Sharks vs vampires the funniest thing i've read all day.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @mad love for Astrid: *puts on Literalist glasses* But vampires can't stand running water! This is not a valid competition.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: [adjusting leather jacket w/ tweed elbow patches]

    Ah, yes. But what my esteemed colleague may have forgotten is that all the available lore tells us the undead (and indeed, most servants of Darkness) cannot cross fresh, running water.


    As Venice is built upon a salt-water lagoon a conflict between Carnaval-costumed vampires and sewage-loving sharks seems almost inevitable.

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    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: If I had a briefcase I'd stuff it full of cash and throw it at you!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: "How can you throw a suitcase when your hands have been chopped off?"


    Oddly enough, this is also one of the least popular Zen Koans. The 14th Century monk who originated it, Bonkō, was forced to eat masonry blocks smeared in powerful laxatives. Bonkō is more well known as the inventor of the "Brick Shithouse".

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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: Snrk!
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    Image of All_Thumbs All_Thumbs
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: How about a change of venue for the next SciFi flick? Vampires vs. Land-sharks in New York?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @All_Thumbs: Harrumph! Land-sharks? Preposterous, an urban legend.

    All my extensive research clearly sh-

    *ding-dong*- eh? Pardon me, there's someone at the door.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: "HI, WE'RE LAWYERS"
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: Foolish mortals, you cannot sue that which does not LIVE!

    HIIISSSSS!!!

    Waitaminnit,

    it's the middle of the day, isn't it?


    oh drat.


    [COMBUSTS]

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: Vampire lawyers would just sue the sun for monopolizing light.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: Well those Wolfram & Hart bastards certainly made an ash out of me.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: Okay, I'll stop now.
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    Image of Illogic Illogic
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: Probably for the best. Another stray comment about land sharks might upset the Street Sharks:
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @Illogic: Damn the YouTube blocking, but Street Sharks! Fuckers tore up the streets every fucking episode, jackasses.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: HEY! There's no need for language.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: If it were not for language we would not have conversations of such intellectual depth, resorting to primal grunts and hand gestures to convey our feelings. Feelings on sewer sharks vs. vampire mimes.
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    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: Plus if I remember, the Street Sharks were never held liable for the wholesale destruction of all that asphalt.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc:


    .

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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: Well, that or flinging poo.
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    Image of Joe Meils Joe Meils
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    It's sooo obvious, what's about to happen... someone, handling the skull, will accidentally cut themselves, drip a bit of blood onto the skull... and then the horror will begin again...
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    Image of WiseGuy487 WiseGuy487
    03/11/09

    @Joe Meils: Or, worse, that someone accidentally cuts himself on one of the sharp teeth, somehow gets infected by the old "vampire" blood, and...


    The rest pretty much speaks for itself.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @WiseGuy487: Then a horrible movie with sparkling vampires emerges?
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    Did they also chop off their hands?


    Cause to be honest, if I were undead and I awoke with a brick in my mouth, I feel confident I could find ways to work around that particular obstacle.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Actually, I figure a vigorous headshaking would take care of that.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: You totally would have been lead vampire while I was sitting around trying to figure out how to get the brick out of my mouth without any hands.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Lead vampire... WITHOUT HANDS! Quickly deposed and overthrown by the flexible vampires who used their feet to remove the bricks.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: Foot-Flex Vampires? I wouldn't want to be around for that anyway. Such an unlife would not be worth unliving.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    Yeah, if only it worked while they were still alive. Cuz your mother has a big mouth, Alice, a BIG MOUTH.


    Shut up Ralph!

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    Image of LastAndLeast LastAndLeast
    03/11/09

    @NoO&A_GitEmSteveDave: One of these days Alice...
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    03/11/09

    @LastAndLeast: Bang. Zoom. To the moon.


    Lella:Wow! I never realized the first astronauts were so fat.

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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    a brick in the mouth will stop a lot of things...have to remember that one.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    I thought I tasted something funny when I woke up this evening...
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    Image of Adah Adah
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    Well that's one method Buffy never taught me.
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    Image of chuffhoncho chuffhoncho
    03/11/09

    @Adah: Well, you'd be surprised how many things a stake through the heart will kill. She's just efficient. :)
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    03/11/09

    @chuffhoncho: I read somewhere that the stake through the heart originated with attempts to keep vampires in their coffins: you nail 'em down so they can't get up again.
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    Image of Adah Adah
    03/11/09

    @Sproing: I get staked down, but I get up again, you ain't never gonna keep me down...
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    03/11/09

    @Adah: Goddamnit, it's time to cut his freakin' 'ed off!
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    03/11/09

    @Adah: He drinks a plasma drink, he drinks a hemoglobin drink, he drinks a leukocyte drink, he drinks a platelet drink ...
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    02/23/09

    In reply to Wax Anatomical Models of Plague Victims from the Seventeenth Century
    Reminds me of my favorite History Channel bumper, this was actually broadcast.


    "The Plague, brought to you by Red Lobster."


    Needless to say, I will NEVER eat at a Red Lobster...

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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    02/23/09

    In reply to Wax Anatomical Models of Plague Victims from the Seventeenth Century
    Short-lived? No wonder if he had to cast plague victims!


    Still, reminds me of Von Hagen's BodyWorlds...only they are a secret resin process not wax. From real parts..that is.

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    Image of dragonian_angel dragonian_angel
    02/23/09

    In reply to Wax Anatomical Models of Plague Victims from the Seventeenth Century
    Am I the only one whose reaction to this was "HOLY CRAP THIS IS SO FREAKING COOL!!!!"? Granted, I am taking a class on Plagues, but still. This is so freaking cool!!!
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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    02/23/09

    @dragonian_angel: I agree, but I also spent my history degree researching Plaguey stuffs.
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