Posted in Miscellany on July 16th, 2008 No Comments »
From a story about religious crazies snake handlers in Kentucky:
“You can purchase anything off the Internet except common sense,” Harrison said. “A venomous snake isn’t a pet. You don’t play with it. If you do, you’re an idiot.
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This story about the ‘whistles of death’ caught my eye…and ear:
If death had a sound, this was it.
Roberto Velazquez believes the Aztecs played this mournful wail from the so-called Whistles of Death before they were sacrificed to the gods.
I’ve never heard anything in a movie that sounds half so evil as some of these.
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