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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

I mean, hey, I'm not trying to degrade him because he was quite the showman.

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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

He would travel through the Europe and the United States trying to sell his unit called the Carnice.

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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

And there was an article from the Chicago Tribune in 1899 that they would read before his big show where at the Academy of Medicine in New York City, Dr. Henry J.

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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

How would you pronounce that one?

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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

Garagus, where he startled his fellow members with the assertion that one of every 200 people buried in the U.S.

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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

was actually in a lethargic state and is buried alive.

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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

Very dubious numbers, obviously, but he would use that as prelude to take the stage and do his own demonstration where he would bury somebody alive.

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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

I think at one point on day like seven, he spoke through the tube and he was like, I'm going to put my mouth around the tube now and just drop a couple of Tic Tacs.

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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

Yeah, that's a long time.

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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

And that seems verified.

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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

Yeah, that's too bad.

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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

You got anything else, man?

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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

I got nothing else.

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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

Then I guess short stuff is out.

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Selects: Why Do Great Flood Myths Seem To Be Universal?

Has there ever been a cutesy TV show called The Admirable Admiral?

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Selects: Why Do Great Flood Myths Seem To Be Universal?

So I have a cold, so I just want to apologize up front.