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STRANGE IRISH CURSES

June 25th 2009 19:49
grave
May your obituary be written in weasel's piss.

May the lamb of God stir his hoof through the roof of heaven and kick you in the arse down to hell.

May the devil swallow him sideways.

May the snails devour his corpse And the rains do harm worse May the devil sweep the hairy creature soon!

May your hens take the disorder(the fowl-pest), your cows the crippen(phosphorosis) and your calves the white scour! May yourself go stone-blind so that you will not know your wife from a hay-stack!

May the seven terriers of hell sit on the spool of your breast and bark in at your soul-case

The treatment of the boiled broken little fish to you

The roasting of the salmon to the very end on you

May you be broken over the masons cliff

Six horse-loads of graveyard clay on top of you

May the entrails and mansion of pleasure of this worm fall out

May the devil cut the head off you and make a days work of your neck

No butter be on your milk nor on your ducks a web. May your child not walk and your cow be flayed. And may the flame be bigger and wider which will go through your soul than the Connemara mountains if they were on fire

The curse of the crows on you

May you be afflicted with the itch and have no nails to scratch with!

I bind you by grave injunctions of magic from the river, back to the river, may you fall in a nettle patch and may savage dogs eat your one good foot on a mountain.
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IS SHE, ISN'T SHE?!!

April 30th 2009 13:48
During the 1936 Olympic Games, Stella Walsh, otherwise known as Stanislawa Walasiewicz, a Polish sprinter, was then known internationally as the fastest woman in the world, so when she was beaten by Helen Stephens of the U.S. who simultaneously set a world record, running 100 metres in 11.4 seconds, a Polish journalist protested that Helen Stephens must be a man.
sprinters sprint

Supporters of Stella Walsh joined in the protest, arguing that no woman could possibly run that fast.
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K Stands For KALAMITY!!!

April 28th 2009 13:36
Model of a K-Class Submarine
Model of a K-Class Submarine

During World War 1 while the German Navy displayed its supremacy beneath the waves, the British Military decided that it needed its own fleet of similar submarines to contest them.

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Alphabetical CAMELS!!!!

February 21st 2009 09:32
book pile
During Persia's 10th century, the ruling grand Vizier had amassed a private library collection of a considerable size - 117,000 books..

The almost unbelievable part about this however, is that he took his entire library with him whenever he went travelling. How did he manage this?
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SORRY BUT I'M NOT DEAD YET!!!

August 20th 2008 23:45
gravestone headstone
People who reportedly 'died' before they did!

* Bertrand Russell (British mathematician) - reported in print as having died in 1937, had to have his obituary reprinted when he actually died in 1970.
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Top Hats! A Menace To Society!!!

July 9th 2008 10:30
top hat
James Heatherington, the inventor of the top hat, introduced his design to the world in London during 1797.

Upon leaving the shop wearing his unusual headwear he was surrounded by a crowd of onlookers where some pushing and shoving ensued, resulting in women fainting and a young boy having his arm broken.
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IT FELL From The SKY II! MONEY

July 4th 2008 10:15
In 1968, shoppers in Kent, UK, were surprised by falling coinage on the footpath. Apparently they came from nowhere with only the sound of them hitting the ground alerting the shoppers to their presence, and the dents in them backed up the story that they had fallen from the sky. There were no tall buildings or planes nearby.

In 1976 over a Piazza in Rome, a light plane dropped a large quantity of 500, 1000, and 10000 lira bank notes. The pilot of the plane was never identified.
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The Protection Of Nessie

March 4th 2008 12:21
Nessie
The Loch Ness Monster, affectionately known as Nessie, is actually under the protection of Scottish law.
The Scottish law of 1912 known as the Protection of Animal Acts In Scotland includes Nessie as one of the many creatures protected by its scope. Little wonder why really when you realise that in terms of Scottish tourism, Nessie is estimated to be worth $40 million a year!
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People Who Have LITERALLY DIED LAUGHING!!!

October 16th 2007 01:15
1. Calchas was a Greek soothsayer during the time of the Trojan War.
One day he was planting grapevines when another soothsayer wandered by and foretold that Calchas would never drink the wine produced from the grapes. After the grapes ripened and the wine was made, Calchas invited the soothsayer to share it with him. As Calchas held a cup of the wine in his hand, the soothsayer repeated the prophecy. This incited such a fit of laughter in Calchas that he choked and died.

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BLACK And/Or WHITE Dogs BEWARE!

September 10th 2007 12:32
Here's an ancient facts guaranteed to make your black, white or both coloured dog shiver right down to his paws.....

dalmation free
During ancient times in Japan when the townspeople wanted rain, they would shoot an arrow at a black dog, and if they wanted fine weather they would shoot an arrow at a white dog.
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WEIRD Ancient History Facts & Customs!

August 10th 2007 00:35
potato
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.

The streets of ancient Mesopotamia became literally knee-deep in rubbish. they had not put a proper rubbish removal system in place and this was the result.
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