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Surge in Obesity Sparks
Crematorium Blazes
DER SPIEGEL ^
| April 13, 2012
| Ulf Hanke
Posted on 04/13/2012 8:33:50 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
No article references to AGW. Remarkable! Such restraint!
To: Free ThinkerNY
The funeral of King Henry VII at Westminster Abbey was marred by his obese corpse splitting open inside his coffin and, well you can guess how that went down.
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posted on
04/13/2012 8:48:33 PM PDT
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AU72
To: AU72
King Henry VIII I meant. When he passed on his reward was not 72 virgins but 6 angry wives.
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posted on
04/13/2012 8:50:32 PM PDT
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AU72
To: Free ThinkerNY
We have the same problem at a local crematorium. We often get calls about smoke in the area when they cremate a large person. I am surprised that the air pollution control agency doesn't get after them. It seems like a lot of the obese are burned after dark probably to avoid added scrutiny. Most people do not recognize what the stench is actually coming from or there would probably be even more complaints.
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posted on
04/13/2012 8:51:25 PM PDT
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fireman15
(Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
if anybody knowa anything about crematoriums it would be the germans given their experience.
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posted on
04/13/2012 8:51:45 PM PDT
by
bravo whiskey
(If the little things really bother you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
In France, for example, several crematoriums refused to accept the body of a 140-kilogram woman. The woman's daughter then wrote to the newspaper Le Parisien complaining of post-mortem discrimination against her mother.Post-mortem discrimination?
If this catches on, we will see the Democrats complaining of post-mortem disenfranchisement.
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posted on
04/13/2012 8:55:21 PM PDT
by
Jagdgewehr
(It will take blood)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I have an interesting idea! How about liposuction on the dead?
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posted on
04/13/2012 9:02:22 PM PDT
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Dogbert41
("...or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. " -Jesus)
To: Dogbert41
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posted on
04/13/2012 9:05:29 PM PDT
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bigbob
To: bravo whiskey
Yeah, but those were emaciated Jews, Gypsies, political prisoners and homosexuals with a very low body fat ratio.
I weigh about 360 lbs, so I’d probably cause a merry blaze, if I elected cremation.
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posted on
04/13/2012 9:08:55 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Fat has 8 calories per gram. 454 grams per pound. Pretty good fuel. They should adapt crematoria to thermal energy generating power plants. Better than windmills.
To: hinckley buzzard
Like Soylent Green Energy is People?
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posted on
04/13/2012 9:17:57 PM PDT
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libertarian27
(Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
To: AU72
Actually five angry wives- he left a widow behind.
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posted on
04/13/2012 9:21:57 PM PDT
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Squawk 8888
(Tories in- now the REAL work begins!)
To: clearcarbon
I thought only Americans were fat, and certainly not our fabled friends in the EU????
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04/13/2012 9:23:20 PM PDT
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Chickensoup
(In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
To: bravo whiskey
I know, Germans and creamatoriums. Not a good combination.
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posted on
04/13/2012 9:25:54 PM PDT
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Chickensoup
(In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
True story:
A number of years ago in the California desert, a desert rat called the local sheriff and claimed that a local facility was burning bodies. The sheriff pulled the business license and said that the facility was for “firing pottery” not burning bodies — to which the desert resident said “I was at Auschwitz!! I know what burning bodies smell like!!
Turns out the building WAS being used by an LA crematorium for its excess business — they figured the desert is so sparse no one would “smell” a thing.
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posted on
04/13/2012 9:25:58 PM PDT
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Bon of Babble
(The Road to Ruin is Always Kept in Good Repair)
To: Jagdgewehr
If this catches on, we will see the Democrats complaining of post-mortem disenfranchisement.Someone try telling a democRAT cremated people can't vote, and they'll ban cremations.
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posted on
04/13/2012 9:33:25 PM PDT
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
To: AU72
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posted on
04/13/2012 10:13:44 PM PDT
by
POWERSBOOTHEFAN
(No good deed goes unpunished!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Perhaps the crematoria should check with the Krupp steel corp to update the furance to handle higher capacity cremations.
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posted on
04/13/2012 10:24:25 PM PDT
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Doc91678
(Doc91678)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
MOST holocaust victims were emaciated, but not so those who went to Treblinka. There, the poor people were killed immediately after arrival and “processing”, e.g., having their hair shorn (if female) and their gold teeth pulled out. Sorry to be so gross, but the German camp administrators (!) figured out how to stack the fatter corpses on the pyres so as to reduce the need for petrol/gas.
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