Comments on: Beer Flood Claims Eight Souls https://www.damninteresting.com/beer-flood-claims-eight-souls/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:32:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/beer-flood-claims-eight-souls/#comment-73250 Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:39:09 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=50#comment-73250 Still here. Still working.

]]> By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/beer-flood-claims-eight-souls/#comment-73059 Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:30:33 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=50#comment-73059 Nearly ten years have passed, and I am now 66 and still working. I don’t know if I will ever be able to retire.

]]> By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/beer-flood-claims-eight-souls/#comment-72600 Sat, 20 Oct 2018 14:23:28 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=50#comment-72600 I love black humor. This article is one of the finest examples of it.

]]> By: Just Another Commenter https://www.damninteresting.com/beer-flood-claims-eight-souls/#comment-72422 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 03:14:38 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=50#comment-72422 “No! No! Gerroffme, I don’t want to be saved…

– last words of the 9th victim

]]> By: TheStink https://www.damninteresting.com/beer-flood-claims-eight-souls/#comment-26796 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:04:31 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=50#comment-26796 Hmm.. I can think of worse ways to die I suppose..

[quote]Dropbear said: “It was 1814, Dan. Nobody swam. But would you all actually drink warm street beer with the body of a neighbor floating in it? Doesn’t it strike anyone as a little gross? …. No?….”[/quote]

Dropbear: the alcohol would’ve killed all the germs anyway :P

]]> By: dragondm6 https://www.damninteresting.com/beer-flood-claims-eight-souls/#comment-25289 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:09:09 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=50#comment-25289 You can always depend on Snopes.com to tell the difference between fact and fiction.
A direct quote from Benjamin Franklin: “Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy.”

]]> By: Locifer https://www.damninteresting.com/beer-flood-claims-eight-souls/#comment-24018 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:54:36 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=50#comment-24018 [quote]DanThinksDances&femaleGspot said: “Enter your reply text here. OK

Snopes.com is reliable. And you guys prefer Wiki???????

It occurs, but why do people have to drown. Why can’t they just swim. Common sence answer but I don’t like it. I would calmy fight like an Isreali commando to reach safety.”[/quote]

Such huge amount of liquid has a lot of speed(probably chaneled trough the street),swimming just wouldnt cut it,the force would smack you in to a wall,or the debris would finish you off…try swimming against a tsunami,not a easy task…

]]> By: Rose https://www.damninteresting.com/beer-flood-claims-eight-souls/#comment-23086 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:34:00 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=50#comment-23086 There’s nothing mentioned in the inquest report about someone drinking themselves to death, but it only mentions eight dead, and he may have taken longer to do himself in. You can read the original reports from The Times of 1814 at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/archiveblog

]]> By: BenKinsey https://www.damninteresting.com/beer-flood-claims-eight-souls/#comment-22850 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:18:45 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=50#comment-22850 At the funeral the preist said…he drank like a fish…

]]> By: Dropbear https://www.damninteresting.com/beer-flood-claims-eight-souls/#comment-22747 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:27:32 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=50#comment-22747 It was 1814, Dan. Nobody swam. But would you all actually drink warm street beer with the body of a neighbor floating in it? Doesn’t it strike anyone as a little gross? …. No?….

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