The Safety Coffin

[Kitan Etos]

[brewer]

[Kitan Etos]

[julep]

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...

[Fireball]

I guess that's where the saying "dead drunk" came from? I want to do what Mark is showing- leave my sorry ass for some poor medical people to marvel over. I get sliced and diced, and then the rest of the remains are cremated and given back to my family. For free. Win-win!

[outtathereligioncloset]

A few years ago we had one of those "declared dead" zipped in a body bag wake ups here in Tiny County. Major lawsuit.

A problem with modern burial is the requirements that the body be drained and fluid replaced with formaldehyde. Plus, the coffin itself gets buried in a cement box. Kinda hard to come back from all that. Unless you're a mythical religious character I suppose.

[Gwaithmir]

A few years ago we had one of those "declared dead" zipped in a body bag wake ups here in Tiny County.  Major lawsuit.

A problem with modern burial is the requirements that the body be drained and fluid replaced with formaldehyde.  Plus, the coffin itself gets buried in a cement box.  Kinda hard to come back from all that.  Unless you're a mythical religious character I suppose.

Or a vampire.

[Rev. Rye]

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...

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.

"Martin Flaherty defeated Bobby Burns in 32 rounds by a complete knockout. Half a dozen times Flaherty was saved by the bell in the earlier rounds."

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.

[julep]

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...

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.

"Martin Flaherty defeated Bobby Burns in 32 rounds by a complete knockout. Half a dozen times Flaherty was saved by the bell in the earlier rounds."

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.

[brewer]

I like the other safety options.