Wednesday, June 30,1999 COMMENTARY

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”- udos galore to Mr.
Flanigan of
B. Ys. Canora. Road
for finding my wallet
on May 28. I had inad-

vertently left it on the
top of the car before
driving away. He called

ment: firefighters, wives and friends: Chris,

Angela, Julie, Kathy,
Jody, Gary, Grete,
(Ken), Bert Reeve,

_ to say he had found it, Garth, and any other
but wouldn’t take a * volunteers, sponsors
monetary show of grat- and participants.

itude. We still do have
some honest people.

Janet Vining
Sidney

Pink and. blue ‘bou- »
quets to all the volun-
teers who helped with
_ the organizing and: set.
up at the Saanich Penin- .
sula Hospital’s 5th Year

Jeff, Andy, Rick, Dan, Lynne,
Paul, Les, John, George, Pete,
Mike, Doug, Mel, Harry, Traci,

‘ron, Kelly, Richard and

made the first of hope-

fully many SVFD Fun

5 km Walk/Runs a
great success,

Anna-Marie Olson
‘Race coordinator

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»: In the-16th century there was an’Austrian by the

-. longest beard in the world.

“It was pretty long, alright.

--Ifnot right away, they soon did. The Sun Vista was on
fire and just.a few hours away from going to the bottom
of the sea. Sere nee ete?

Thankfully, no one was lost. Everyone

got into lifeboats and safely away, but for
along time it didn’t look good. So do you
know what the passengers did to keep.
their spirits high? They sang the theme
song from the movie Titanic. -

[had an immediate, instinctive reaction
when I read about that. I believe the
medical term for it is ‘gag reflex’.

I don't yet know how | am going to
die, but I sure hope it’s not on the deck
ofa sinking ship doing an off-key lip-
sync of a song about another sinking
ship. That's what I call an ignominious
demise.

Ray Priestley of Melbourne, Australia

‘So he climbed onto a ceiling rafter,
hooked himself by his knees over the

crashed to the concrete floor and
landed om his head.

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Of course there have been a few of areas
those over the years. ‘Way back in 53 BC, a Roman shy-
lock by the name of Crassus got his just desserts. The
notorious moneylender tried to shake down some
Parthian soldiers, They responded by pouring molten
gold down his throat. a pes
"An English historian by the name of Thomas May also
fell victim to his own bad habit —in May's case, glut
tony, May was.a compulsive gorger who looked like
Jabba The Hut — so fat that he was compelled to tie up
his drooping jowls with strips of cloth. One night as he
was vacuuming up a plate of mutton, May choked on ae
bone, By the time bystanders got the strips unknotted,
he was dead. ar a ee

There's a certain rough justice to some weird
premises, The pupils of St, Cassian, a third-eentury
schoolmaster, stabbed him to death with their pens,

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‘The French composer Jean Baptiste Lally committed
akind of musical hari kiri, While conducting an orches-
tra, Lally thumped his cane on the floor to accentuate

Langley Collyer, an eccentric American recluse who
died, with his brother, at. home, in 1947,

‘The joint was filled, floor to ceiling, with trash, junk,

‘got from room to room by tunnels they'd burrowed

own booby trap.

himself under three breadboxes, a sewing machine,
suitcase filled with scrap metal and several hundred

The badies were not ‘excavated’ for nearly a month.
The alltime worst

England's Edmund Tronside (1016) has to be, at the
least, a solid contender, King Edmund was ‘slain on

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And there's

some deaths that make you want to yell. ©
“What did you expect, dipstick?” Such as”
Mister Priestley was playing snooker in
his garage with his friend, (and, I suspect,
a dozen or two members of the Foster.

* family). Mister Priestley decided it was —
time to show off his special ‘trick shot’.

beam and proceeded to take his shot
upside down, Alas, he got a charley
horse, straightened his legs, slipped,

Oh well. Wasn't as if he was using it.
Once of the most bizarre passages
has to be the one suffered by Mister

Sounds fairly normal — but there was nothing nornial
about the Collyer brothers or the house they lived in.
and thousands of bundles of newspapers.. The brothers
through the maze, Langley Collyer was killed by his

He tripped.a wire designed to foil burglars and buried —
a

pounds of newspapers, His brother starved (o death... i
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preparing to provide primary care for your eyes.
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