[quote:79d20c4050="Maljonic"]Umm, a 'special taste'; sounds like a special parcel from the butcher in Royston Vasey. [/quote:79d20c4050] Did they ever tell us exactly what Mr Briss was selling to his special customers?
Why exactly did the wife leave the body in the barrel? The only reason that I can think of is if she died before she could take it out.
Well, if the stories about the leg of pork in the fermentation stages of scrumpy (a West Country strong cider, for the benefit of non-Brits, and I am sure the inspiration for scumble, which is also made from apples - well, mainly apples) are true, then this could be a natural extension - after all, do not wine lovers sometimes refer to a "full-bodied wine"? (OK, OK - [i:fac0e640b3]someone[/i:fac0e640b3] had to say it! ) Of course, they may know something we don't! Edited to add extra comment.
Personally I think the moral of the story is: a) don't drink out of humoungous barrels of alcohol that you know nothing about, and b) avoid shipping your partners body home in rum that will later be drunken by workers. Important life lessons. :snakeman:
Never drink your rum from any container you can't see through ! Although it is probably one of the healthiest alcohols, as it doesn't cause cirrosis (splg ?) so although he was dead, I'm sure his liver was fine Did they say his name was Davey Jones ?
Wasn't Nelson shipped home in a barrel of rum to preserve the body? Although it may have been honey, I've heard of honey being used but I don't know if it was on Nelson... Although he would have tasted good once he got home *bad taste*.
Personally I get more of the ew factor off that horrible :vom: smiley. . . no, it's not a smiley. Smileys are cool. It's a pukey. Not cool. :doubt: But yeah, it's ewey.
[quote:27d1fab3a5]We're sorry... this story is not currently available[/quote:27d1fab3a5] NO WAY! How could such a story occur. I'm totally gob smacked!
[quote:dc2c1aabc4][size=18:dc2c1aabc4][b:dc2c1aabc4]Hungary workers get shock at bottom of rum barrel[/b:dc2c1aabc4][/size:dc2c1aabc4] BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported. According to online magazine www.zsaru.hu, workers in Szeged in the south of Hungary tried to move the barrel after they had drained it, only to find it was surprisingly heavy and were shocked when the body of a naked man fell out. The website said that the body of the man had been shipped back from Jamaica 20 years ago by his wife in the barrel of rum in order to avoid the cost and paperwork of an official return. According to the website, workers said the rum in the 300-liter barrel had a "special taste" so they even decanted a few bottles of the liquor to take home. The wife has since died and the man was buried in a proper grave.[/quote:dc2c1aabc4]
I just saw the same story in the Geneva daily free newspaper... man I felt SO superior nodding in the tram saying to my gobsmacked husband "oh, yeah, I knew all about that, hadn't you heard ?"
It'll be interesting to see where it turns up next. The story, for those not in "the know" is one that appears every few years in some newspaper around the world, edited slightly for whichever place it's currently in. It's one of those stories that transcends the fact that it never happened.
Awwwwwwwww!!! ::isn't technically supposed to set Ba on fire, being a weaponry wench in his church and all, but does it anyway::
Aww, come on Ba, how do you know it never happened ? I mean it's not as if it was as gruesome and 'orrible as that one about the woman and the lobster eggs... **shudders** No, I'm sure it's actually a secret society thing, getting yourself embalmed in a rum cask and getting your family to make poor innocent workers drink the rum twenty years later, stands to reason... (why the heck would workers drink a whole cask of rum in a place that's not theirs and risk getting fired and probably reported to the police for it, after all, a cask big enough to fit a body in it is quite a big thing to empty !) I want to be buried in a raspberry sponge cake.
I want to have either "Wake me up, before you go-go" or the Monty Python's version of "Always look on the bright side of life" played at my funeral.
[quote:802d333654="Katcal"]I want to be buried in a raspberry sponge cake.[/quote:802d333654] That reminds me of one of my friends saying : "I want to be pickled in a dramatic pose." Odd boy.
[quote:683bdc84b9="roisindubh211"][quote:683bdc84b9="Katcal"]I want to be buried in a raspberry sponge cake.[/quote:683bdc84b9] That reminds me of one of my friends saying : "I want to be pickled in a dramatic pose." Odd boy.[/quote:683bdc84b9] I want to be buried inside that shark thats in Fermaldahyde (*sp?) and then you can call me art... I'd just have my feet sticking out of its mouth. I think thats a dramatic enough pose for me
I want to be buried in as many graves as possible (other peoples'), plus one urn - in other words when I go I want to be broken up for spares - as much of me as is useful for transplants to be harvested, and the rest to be cremated.
Ba's not likely to die, being immortal. But if he were to do so, he would prefer to die in a rapidly-expanding cloud of plasma, forming a mushroom cloud over a city with a formerly high population.
It turns out this story is either an urban legend or at least 10 years old... Last night's Media Watch program covered it here.
