The Last Post Game!!!!

[Griffin NoName]

They died from heat - 500^o - whereas those in Pompeii died from heat 300^o

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[Swatopluk]

Old Pliny also died during that trip but he was not a young man.

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[Aphos]

Yup.  Pliny the Younger wrote that Pliny the Elder had sailed to Pompeii to see what was happening and never returned.  IIRC. it is thought that Pliny the Elder was at sea and was caught in the pyroclastic flow.

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[Swatopluk]

At least he went with style and as a scientist;)

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[pieces o nine]

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[Swatopluk]

Only dead fishes do that

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

They died from heat - 500^o - whereas those in Pompeii died from heat 300^o

Irony, they ran to avoid death and got a quicker one.

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[Aphos]

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[Swatopluk]

Jumping into volcanos was a popular exit for philosophers

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Also a popular sacrifice among the Polynesians.

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[Swatopluk]

Although most of them are ex-volocanos

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

The idea takes a toll on veracity.

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[Swatopluk]

We all know that Polynesian virgins get sacrificed to apes of unusual size.

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Isn't that game in PETA's short list of animal abuse?

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[Swatopluk]

I can't remember turtles in the original

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