(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.
