Did the Brontës all die young from inadvertently drinking graveyard-contaminated water?

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The stench from those cesspits must have been whuthering.

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Babbage seems to have beaten John Snow by a few years in taking a statistical approach to epidemiology.

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No, it was a giant meteor that killed all the Brontosaurus.

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Angry high-school student: “I’m fed up with the Brontës. As far as I’m concerned, they can all drink shit and die.”

Brontës: “We did.”

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Poopy water is not good for the body, nor the soul.

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Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Chicxulub
I’ve come home, I’m so cold

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Didn’t Branwell die standing up leaning on the mantlepiece or something, just because?

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This really makes me wish I’d lived during the romantic 19th century.

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Cthulhu would have waited.

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I never pass up an opportunity to post this:

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Allegedly. To demonstrate the power of the human will.

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Upcoming Ask a Mortician video?

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Ahhh, the good old days.

The past really was another, much more unsanitary country.

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