To: advertising guy
People were buried with a string in the coffin that went up to ground level. It was attached to a bell. I don’t know how often the bell rang, but it did sometimes. People would take turns sitting at the graveside and if that bell rang, they started digging really fast.
So, some were “Saved by the bell”.
59 posted on
04/03/2009 9:30:35 AM PDT by
Just Lori
(Liberalism ---->Socialism----->Communism------>BONDAGE!!!!)
To: Just Lori
That’s very interesting.
I understand some people lived in terror of being buried alive, it was such a real possibility.
To: Just Lori
61 posted on
04/03/2009 9:33:34 AM PDT by
advertising guy
(the University of IKEA , educating our kids for 20 years , majoring in couch and remote)
To: Just Lori
That’s also where ‘the graveyard shift’ came from.
75 posted on
04/03/2009 9:42:16 AM PDT by
anglian
To: Just Lori
84 posted on
04/03/2009 9:47:09 AM PDT by
AliVeritas
(No taxation without representation. Government of, for, by the people. Let's roll!)
To: Just Lori
People would take turns sitting at the graveside and if that bell rang, they started digging really fast.
Isn't that how the term, "graveyard shift" started?
106 posted on
04/03/2009 10:09:35 AM PDT by
CDB
(TOTUS is America's Cyrano de Bergerac (with a nasty sense of humor))
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