Re:Life expectancy and cause of death in popular musicians (...
by pessimizer on Saturday August 24, 2019 @06:43PM
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The best yarn I've heard about the drug/alcohol deaths of musicians of the 60s is that the FBI decided that to halt the popularization of countercultural ideas the most dangerous would have to be killed. So the FBI put together a team of undercover assassin groupies codenamed PROPUKES that would get the targets alone, spike their drinks so they would pass out, then pull open their mouths and vomit into them.
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Re:Life expectancy and cause of death in popular musicians (...
by locusofself on Saturday August 24, 2019 @06:56PM
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Marty: What happened to Stumpy Joe?
Derek: Well, uh, it's not a very pleasant story...but, uh, he died...uh...he choked on...the ac- the official explanation was he choked on vomit.
David: He passed away.
Nigel: It was actually, was actually someone else's vomit. It's not....
David: It's ugly.
Nigel: You know. There's no real....
Derek: You know they can't prove whose vomit it was...they don't have the facilities at Scotland Yard....
David: You can't print, there's no way to print a spectra-photograph...
Nigel: You can't really dust for vomit.
(Spinal Tap)