Get your body stuffed with gunpowder before cremation...

(October 16, 2018 at 10:29 pm)julep Wrote:

(October 16, 2018 at 9:59 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: No, "saved by the bell" comes from boxing; a boxer still on his feet, but faltering, can be saved from his opponent giving the decisive blow because the bell that marks the end of the round rang, and the boxers know you don't fuck with the Marquess of Queensbury's rules.


That was the earliest known use of the phrase. At least until this:





(Also, it turns out that YouTube is down, so if the video looks like a random string of characters in a text box instead of a video, that's why)

Also, looking into the safety coffin's history, it's telling that there are no signs of anyone actually being saved by that bell.

You mean the guide at the whiskey museum was lying to us?  

She seemed so sincere.  

Of course at the beginning of the tour she said she was native Irish and then she told us she was from New Jersey.

Her sister is probably a native of Scotland and organizes hunts for the wild haggis.

(October 16, 2018 at 8:35 pm)julep Wrote: This is the origin of the phrase “saved by the bell.”  

This really makes one think about that teen-based tv show from the 90's "Saved by the Bell".

(October 16, 2018 at 10:37 pm)Fireball Wrote:

(October 16, 2018 at 10:29 pm)julep Wrote: You mean the guide at the whiskey museum was lying to us?  

She seemed so sincere.  

Of course at the beginning of the tour she said she was native Irish and then she told us she was from New Jersey.

Her sister is probably a native of Scotland and organizes hunts for the wild haggis.

Isn't hunting wild haggis a right to manhood in Scotland?

Or is that spending a night drinking at the pub and not paying for it?

(October 16, 2018 at 10:34 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Get your body stuffed with gunpowder before cremation...

Gunpowder doesn’t do well when wet.

(October 16, 2018 at 11:37 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:

(October 16, 2018 at 10:34 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Get your body stuffed with gunpowder before cremation...

Gunpowder doesn’t do well when wet.

I do.

I live next to a graveyard ( 3/4 mile away. It's across an open field north of our property.) When I was a kid there was still a couple of the frames still in the ground - but the bells were long gone. The frames fell over in the 1970's and removed.

I think it' s safe to say they' re no longer needed...

(October 16, 2018 at 10:31 pm)wyzas Wrote: I like the other safety options. 

Meh. Scout the place in the daytime.

(October 16, 2018 at 8:35 pm)julep Wrote: This is the origin of the phrase “saved by the bell.”  

Evidently Irish moonshine used to put people into comas, and so many people were accidentally buried alive that this kind of mechanism became common.  Also workers were added to cemeteries to listen for these bells...origin of the term “graveyard shift.”  

Things you learn in the Irish Whiskey Museum tour...

My grandfather was a notorious drinker. It is said he was barred from every bar in Dublin. Apparently he was pronounced dead three times. Turns out he was more or less comatose from the drink. There was no ringing of the bell, he woke up in the ambulance and scared the shit out of the medic. Third time he was “really” dead. All us grand children had to, under instructions from my grandmother, touch his face and bid him farewell as he lay in his coffin.