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Spontaneous Human Combustion

12/20/2007 9:14 PM

I know "coming out the gate" that this topic is likely to be considered off the wall. I would like to hear what the CR4 bloggers have to say on the topic. It seems too weird to be possible, but then there have been numerous instances cited. Are they all fraud or misguided? What are the possibilities?

Not an engineering topic, but one to stretch the mind.
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01/07/2008 11:29 AM

Wasn't that a couple of years ago? I remember seeing that clip. They had him on the news afterwards, I don't know if it was when they were back in port or not, but he had some cuts on his face andd afew bruises (or something to that degree)

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01/07/2008 11:33 AM

It's on You Tube. I posted it once someplace here . An amazing bit of footage. The guy was also so relaxed after - I'd have been a quivering jelly for months !

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12/24/2007 2:09 PM

Now there's a pleasant end to look forward to.

Although, being a religious sort, I think of my cremation as preheating.

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12/24/2007 2:48 PM

Being from the sunny climate of California, vermin must be half-baked ! Sorry v, I couldn't resist ! Being from the UK I am of course just 'wet'. And the idioms just keep rolling ! Like my use of ! I'm possibly more of a 'damp squib' !

Before I die I shall try to swallow a length of rope. If possible, my closest friends can then test the 'human candle' hypothesis' !

Oh, no, I can't stop !

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12/24/2007 3:10 PM

Don't you people have a Christmas Eve party to go to?
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12/24/2007 9:03 PM

OK! I admit it!!! Spontaneous combustion does exist!!! We vermin have known about it for centuries!!!

How much do you think the average vermin makes in a year! We just can't afford those luxuries, like stereos and easy-bake ovens, so at the beginning of the year we leave our purloined turkey out... It takes the better part of the year, but eventually the turkey gets cooked through the process of spontaneous turkey combustion. Mind you, we do have to get the bird addicted to barbiturates and cigarettes for the whole thing to work.

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12/25/2007 12:49 AM

Just lure it with some grain, then at the right momment slam the door and hit the switch. You're getting sleepy...sleepy...sleepy.. http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/turkey_sleepy.html

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12/25/2007 4:37 AM

Hi Kris...yeh I'm first down to feed the human too..

Don't s'pose the kids will be up til about 10 .. So I'll have to wait for a posh breakfast.

I can tell it's Christmas...I've just noticed one of my tooth crowns is loose Always happens over a public holiday.

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12/25/2007 6:37 AM

Sorry to hear that Del, Go here for advice.

Alternatively do this....

Too late for Christmas but have a Happy New Year
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12/25/2007 7:05 AM

My old boss used to stick his back in with super glue!!!

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12/25/2007 6:58 PM

My old boss used to stick his back in with super glue!!!

Why for goodness sake would some one squirt super glue down his backside?

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12/25/2007 6:55 AM

That tooth thing is so true - always happens at the worst momment. I had a crown fall out once and was horrified at how much tooth the dentist had removed ( Bacon roll at Waterloo East Station). My gnashers are currently gearing up for lunch. All in place and raring to go !

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12/25/2007 7:23 AM

I suddenly realised it was last Christmas for me as well. I had an abcess which I thought would go away again. Rinsed with tcp for all I was worth and it only got bigger. On Christmas day we had to go to an emergency dentist, very pretty young asian girl, who was very stern with me and told me of. Not a very happy young asian girl and after that not pretty any more either, what a bitch in fact.

Anyway, I have now had a whole year without trouble in the teeth department as I did go to the dentist after that. First visit in over 20 years, see my teeth look al right now....well sort of.

Hope you can make it without too much pain Del. If you use superglue, watch out for your eye lids. see that is what happened to me last time I played with it.

p.s. all my folk here are also still in bed, tsjk, I don't know, Christmas just isn't what it never was anyways.
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12/25/2007 7:42 AM

Cheers...no pain ...just the anticipation that it's going to pop out and get the pin bent when I'm eating my Chritmas pud...

I should have asked Santa for one of those dental repair kits .

Pretty dental nurses are a very good distraction...problem is I can't remember why these days..and they always have n+1 buttons done up...dratt!

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12/25/2007 7:47 AM

Nurses are ok as well but she was the Doc! The nurse was somewhat older and less attractive I recall.

Dental repair kits? For diy dentistry? I thought all you need is a piece of string, a door and a bottle of whisky .
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12/25/2007 7:40 PM

Nurses are ok as well but she was the Doc!

On at least one occasion I have embarrassed myself by constructing a tent whilst in hospital. Well it's hardly my fault - they should wear sturdy knickers and thick hessian aprons. A mate had to go to the docs to have his 'nether regions looked at, and The Doc was a gorgeous young woman. I nearly died laughing as he described it all. She knew every gag in the book, "You can get these in adult size as well" , " I may have to give you a jab, but it will only be a small p...." etc etc.

Is the apparent shape of your head a result of misjudging string length ? It's X-mas so I'll share an embarrassing story. I once had piles, and retreated to the bog with booze and a razor. The pain had been so bad I could barely walk. No matter how pissed I got, I was unable to slash the bloody things. Oh it was painful. It must have looked pitiful as I crawled out an hour later yelping in anguish ! All that suffering for no end result. Luckily this problem has not occurred since.

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12/29/2007 4:09 PM

Hmmmmm, silicon valley? Vermin don't make much? I always equate silicon valley with high paying computer jobs... This isn't true? Ignorance is bliss...(or not)

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12/30/2007 3:08 AM

I suspect that vermin collect souls ! Rather like Banks, they take a little piece of you on each transaction whichever way the market moves. I'm going to search google earth for acres of trussed up Turkeys - vermin probably wasn't joking ! With v though, he may not mean the feathered variety. Stacks of politicians could be lined up hog-tied, a bit like those air craft stashed in the Mojave desert (or wherever it it is). Never buy 'sun-tan' oil off furry people in Silicon valley, especially if they offer to apply it with a baster.

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12/25/2007 12:46 AM

I'm pacing myself for New Years eve ! Anyway it's Christmas now. I'm just up early. Freud would probably say it was some sort of childhood compensation thing when I was never allowed to wake my parents too early.

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12/22/2007 8:22 PM

I once saw a TV documentary about this. They demonstrated how somebody accidentally setting fire to them selves can appear to have spontaneously combusted. Pig fat etc was rolled up around bones and stuffed in clothes etc. A person can burn in a similar fashion to a candle. Any of the published picture can be re-created in this manner.

Exceptions exist ;

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12/23/2007 3:38 AM

There is an interesting article of several pages, here:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/shc.htm

Happy reading.

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12/23/2007 6:51 PM

Right, I have had enough of this, the Pee goes back in!
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12/23/2007 7:53 PM

But you did it too much case ! I like to lay it on thick, but that's ridiculous.

It does however give me chance for a completely off-topic link. There isn't much ya can't google. Ok , I'm just being a 'rat because it's the silly season. Have a nice one man !

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12/26/2007 3:47 AM

Whom knows?- I have read stories that seem to say this an inexplcable phenomena- & read very few alternative explanations(some are presented by posters on this thread)- are the reporters who write books, articles etc embellishing the facts(as in ghost stories etc) to get sales?.
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12/27/2007 1:16 AM

Speaking of this kind of creepy stuff, did anyone hear the rumor that some poor smuck was crunching on a pork rind when he noticed that there was a partial tattoo on it?

Woof!!! Don't even want to think about it!!!

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12/27/2007 1:21 AM

Deep fried Soylent Green! Mmmmmmmmm. It's a Southern thing.

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12/27/2007 1:52 AM

I get the feeling that this will make the Scopes Monkey Trial look like a training exercise!!!

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12/27/2007 2:01 AM

Hello vermin,

We had planned for New Year's day, a big Family dinner.

We normally have roast pork, green minted peas, new potatoes, glazed carrots,roast kumara etc.


I just looked in the freezer, and decided not to eat the pork crackling, because of the misshapen tattoo,of which I attach a photo

Happy New Year....

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12/27/2007 2:13 AM

I heard it was kind of like that... Texas Chainsaw Something or other... A lot of yuppies have tats these days!!!

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12/27/2007 2:14 AM

The BBC reported it as having happened in France. It was about 5 years ago I think. They were unable to work out the full design of the tatto.

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12/27/2007 4:13 AM

It said 'DANISH'

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12/27/2007 5:49 AM

Excuse me but does nobody here ever befriended a pig farmer?

Clearly not as you would then know they tattoo the pigs for batch control.

I often see a partial tattoo on my barbecue skinny rashers when I am outside in the sunshine turning them over on my braai... ok that sunshine bit was a lie, I live in England.
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12/27/2007 2:41 PM

It's the Pig Farmer's daughter, you need fear.

Castration of 30-40 K of hogs a year can alter a person's demeanor, in unpleasant ways.
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12/27/2007 3:09 PM

Do we need to read this with a very high pitched voice?
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From what I heard the pork rinds came out of the Baltic region.

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Nope, definitely France, I checked with a girl I know who works for Reuters.

This demented butcher had seen a film (Possibly based on a Roald Dahl story)- an impoverished artist tattoo's a guys back for a decent meal etc. Years later his works become famous. An unscrupulous art-dealer discovers the by now impoverished owner, and , well, you can guess the rest. This butcher guy is so obsessed by some dudes arm tattoo that he murders him, but not knowing how to preserve it decides to cook the evidence. He fails to notice that the picture is still just about discernible on the roast limb. Unfortunately whilst carving for guest the joint roll over whilst carving at table. He is currently serving life ( which is a terrible pun I know, but the story is true !).

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If I understand you right, you're talking about a USDA stamp or something similar for the UK. These frequently show up on pork rinds, but this was the remains of a real tattoo!!!

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12/28/2007 3:59 AM

Maybe it was the pig farmer's daughters most favorite piglet. That "poor schmuck" does not know when he should be appreciative of something special.

Maybe it said "reward for safe return", darn too late
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If I read correctly, it was more like one of those "Nadine" type tattoos with most of the name missing.

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Hello vermin,

Perhaps all that was left of Nadine, was the last part which read 'dine',which may well be appropriate.

Incidentally here in New Zealand, Nadine is a recently developed type of Potato, Refer:

http://www.producepack.co.nz/pot-type.htm

I see they also have Nadine spuds in the UK....

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I don't know if this is done everywhere, but here in California, people collect "heritage" or "antique" plants. Strictly speaking, these are fruit bearing plants that are no longer commercially grown and that have all but become extinct.

So there's a lady I know that has an apple tree that was discarded by agriculture almost eighty years ago.

The chef at our company cafeteria, served a dish with sliced heritage tomatoes. One was purple and the other was bright green! So I'm thinking that the green one isn't ripe and is going to suck! On the contrary, both tomatoes were very rich in flavor and were some of the best tomatoes I'd ever tasted. Needless to say, I went back for seconds just for the tomatoes!

By the way, does this mean we get to call Nadine "Spud-Girl?!"

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12/29/2007 3:41 AM

The Russians have a variety described as 'Black', though it looks distinctly reddish to me;

The UK has lots of rare apple orchards and assorted other fruit veg collections.

Nadine looked like "Melon-Girl" to me ( although oil drillers might fancy 'spudding-in')!

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I once had a pear that big .

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12/29/2007 4:08 AM

It's a blown up photo - they're 1cm diameter ! < smirk>

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I believe you mean 'pair'.

A genetically manipulated favorite of mine here.....

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You believe incorrectly..the pun was intentional...although it did not a-pear so.

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12/30/2007 3:24 AM

I blame my pearents for my state of mind. Anyway, it looks like CR3 knows his Onions. This is getting highly confusing ! Excellent.

Seasonal silly anecdote : Years ago I got some chestnuts and decided the only way to do them was under a grill. Being youthful and ignorant, I didn't know you had to slit the skins to allow gas escape. At the precise moment that I bent over to check progress the whole tray-load went BANG !! . Wow did I think the world had ended. I was sat on the kitchen floor splattered in bits of roasted chestnut. Lucky I didn't loose an eye or something, but it was bloody funny when I recovered enough to look in a mirror. Some lessons just get learnt the hard way.

It has just occurred to me that there must be a temperature at which a person will spontaneously ignite. Anybody know it ?

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What do you mean? Laden or unladen?

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01/01/2008 2:04 PM

Hello vermin

Perhaps he bin laden with those heavy nuts at some earlier stage

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01/01/2008 3:38 AM

Now a squirrel with exploding nuts ...that IS funny

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01/01/2008 3:50 AM

That explains the extra high squeak!!!

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01/01/2008 8:57 AM

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#89
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01/01/2008 11:46 AM

Decibels or KHz?

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01/01/2008 3:41 PM

Just 4 cats !

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