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Non-Tech : The Critical Investing Workshop
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To: dustcatcher who wrote (28691)8/13/2000 1:40:27 PM
From: Dutch  Read Replies (2) of 35685
 
Read not long ago about 16th century burials. For some reason they would exhume; weeks or even months, the bodies following a burial. Noticing scratch mark on some of the insides of the coffin lids they realized they had buried some alive. They then began attaching strings to the wrist of the dead that strung to a bell hung above the grave site. Villagers would take turns on the first couple of days following the burial to listen for the bell. This is where we derived "grave yard shift","saved by the bell" and "dead ringer".

Regards,
Dutch aka Cliff Claven
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