Thats what my dad said too lol

Snippets from an author called David Southwell.
Entitled 1001 ways to die,apparently all true.

Big Bang
Giacario Burranti was so infuriated after 10 break ins to his shop,that he rigged up a bomb as a security system.Sadly,he forgot to disarm it one day in 1992 and blew himself to bits.

Live Wire
In 1979 at a village fete,an English vicar sat on top of a tank of water and if contestants hit a target with a ball he would be tipped in.Unfortunately he was holding a microphone at the time.......leading to a flash of holy smoke.

Thunder Box
In 2001,a 32-year-old camper died in Montebaur,Germany,when a campsite toilet he was using exploded due to a build-up of leaking gas from a nearby septic tank.

His and Hearse
Undertaker Jose Augustin Noh and his lover Ana Maria Camara,from Mexico,succumbed to carbon-monoxide poisoning as they slept after having sex in a hearse.The engine had been left running to keep the air conditioning running.

All Lit Up
It wasnt a very happy christmas for the family of Seattle man James Hoban in 1982.He electrocuted himself when he decided to water his Norfolk Island pine christmas tree........with the fairy lights on it !

Plum Crazy
Rumanian farmer Dimitru Dumitrazcu was making and sampling plum brandy in his barn during the 1993 festive season.Dimitru became so in toxicated that he fell face first into a barrel of the potent drink and drowned.

His Work Got On Top Of Him
French undertaker Marc Bourjade died when a stack of coffins collapsed on him in 1982.With fitting irony he was later buried in one of the coffins that had crushed him to death.

Got myself, a Good book today.  "Notes from a small country" by Bill Bryson. -- The first of his books i had read. Brilliant!! Britain is the small country.
Anyone read any of his ?? I still have five on my shelf to read --- sometime ??

Bill Bryson, sure has a special way of writing. In this first Book I read "Notes from a small Island"  (sorry i had it as Country) -- It is as though one was with Him, all the way through --- every step of the way.

I've bought a couple from Amazon, haven't read them yet but I do like 'happy' books.

Hi Geoff, Thanks for the reminder!! I missed the offer in The mail. I really enjoy war books and can't get enough. I much prefer the True Stories 'factual' without embellishment:

Hi Geoff, I too have tried to visualise being in that position, in both wars, but extremely hard to place oneself there. I have some programmes in my comp: about those wars, that I re-read from time to time. My Father in the first world war wrote a poem of 23 verses, " The Sentries Reflection and Duty" and had it publised, with othere's in The Dover Holiday Guide, before the last war.
 I still have a few war books to re- read again and again, but do mix with othere's sometimes.
"Lest We Forget Those Dead Heroes"