No way, dude! That's even worse --Originally Posted by PeterL
though not as bad as having my punchline ruined. Aw, I kid, I kid.
No way, dude! That's even worse --
though not as bad as having my punchline ruined. Aw, I kid, I kid.
Lists like that aren't very useful, if one is looking for cause of death for a profession that is noted versus the population at large. All published authors have a public face, while only a very small percentage of bartenders have a public face, and the proportion of wine salesmen is even smaller. My guess is that a high percentage of wine salesmen die from an excess of alcohol, but finding the figures would be difficult.
For another example of a similar list for people who died from drug overdoese. You will notice that many musicians are listed, but you will find few, if any, drug dealers listed.
Okay. Have it your own way: Poe went on a drinking binge and was bitten by a mad raccoon.
let's split it down the middle. he was bit by a mad pink elephant
Actually, the idea that he was fatally injured by some political operatives is also a high possibility, but there was no sign that he had had alcohol when he was found.
I see Dylan Thomas also listed as a suicide. This is also absurd.
First off, the post mortem concluded that pneumonia was the cause of death.
Secondly, alcoholism is a disease, and an alcoholic dying of alcohol poisoning wouldn't be classed as suicide.
Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your tv, follow fashion, act normal, obey the law and repeat after me: "I am free."
Anon
Some people just think that all writers should commit suicide.
Unfortunately, those who should not, would and those who should, would not.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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All too true.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Ah you got there before me! I was surprised to see him on that list too.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
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The sharper side of the double edged sword of having a creative mind, it never shuts up, turns down, or switches off.
"Let them laugh and say it's all tall tales."
F. Dostoevsky
He was a painter, not a writer.
Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your tv, follow fashion, act normal, obey the law and repeat after me: "I am free."
Anon
I thought that Thompson shot himself because he thought that the government was coming after him, I never heard anything about cancer.
Ever heard of Mein Kampf?
Apparently he also wrote a fair amount of bad poetry.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
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