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qumbles tagged "death"
- Thursday, May 17th, 2007
- Post 31551
- Friday, April 6th, 2007
- Post 30722
- Saturday, February 10th, 2007
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Oh, there were many things that this woman, so deserving of our undivided attention tonight, did not do. No, she didn't take off her clothes for a men's magazine for a big payday, work as an exotic dancer or marry a billionaire customer who was 63 years older than her. Nor did she spend most of her adult life pursuing that billionaire's estate in courtrooms from Texas to Washington, D.C., or record her life for a reality TV show, or abuse drugs, or give birth to a child whose paternity is the focus of a legal battle.
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Yesterday, Jennifer Parcell was supporting combat operations in Al Anbar province when she was killed in action. If we had more information about her death, we would provide it. But here at Attytood, we don't have the millions of dollars in resources or the extra manpower that they have at CNN, or MSNBC, or Fox News.”
- — Will Bunch
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- Monday, January 29th, 2007
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- The Sun Online - News: Pig farmer is swiller killer
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HTML page- http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007030454,00.html
- Posted by ryan
“The pork — together with left-over human flesh — was later made into SAUSAGES and sold to an unsuspecting public, detectives fear.”
- — Emily Smith
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- Machine of Death
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- http://machineofdeath.net/
- Posted by ryan
“The realization that we could now know how we were going to die had changed the world: people became at once less fearful and more afraid. There's no reason not to go skydiving if you know your sliver of paper says BURIED ALIVE. The realization that these predictions seemed to revel in turnabout and surprise put a damper on things.
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Machine of Death is an upcoming published anthology of short stories edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki !, inspired by this episode of Ryan's Dinosaur Comics.
We are actively soliciting short story submissions for the book.”
- Sunday, January 28th, 2007
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- The Morning News - All Hallows by Jim Coudal
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- Posted by vito
“I have convinced myself that the way to deal with grief and hardship, the way to be The Good Husband and The Good Father is to be tough and logical and pragmatic. To be stronger than the problem. To keep it inside. I imagine that I'm not the only man like this. That suit seems to fit right off the rack.”
- — Jim Coudal
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- My Turn: The Stage of Grief No One Admits ToRelief - Newsweek My Turn - MSNBC.com
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- Posted by vito
“One day in February of 1985, I told him I wanted a divorce. The next day he was dead, killed almost instantly when his compact car was hit by a semi truck on a dark stretch of highway.”
- Thursday, January 25th, 2007
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- Boy's screaming kills chickens | Metro.co.uk
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- Posted by ryan
- Sunday, January 21st, 2007
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- Mexican prosecutors: man who tried to commit suicide beaten to death by police - Internati
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“A man who tried to commit suicide by throwing himself onto the tracks of the Mexico City subway was later beaten to death by police”
- Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
- Post 29232