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0 Sheet of Paper = Open Beer

  • 10/29/2011
  • by dirtybourbonrivershow
  • · Education

Don’t have a bottle opener? Fear not, all you need is a sheet of paper.

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0 Late Night Piano/Kazoo Improvisations

  • 04/17/2011
  • by dirtybourbonrivershow
  • · Video

Yeah, it gets pretty wild from here on out…

0 Greek Has Awakened Only Once in 35 Days

  • 03/22/2011
  • by dirtybourbonrivershow
  • · General · History
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LONG-DISTANCE SLEEPER PUZZLES HOSPITAL PHYSICIANS.


With Organs of Body Apparently in
Normal Condition, Every Ef-
fort to Arouse Carolmas
Has Failed.
GEORGE CAROLMAS, THE SOUND SLEEPER OF THE GENERAL HOSPITAL

Lying on a cot in the insane ward at the general hospital, George Carolmas, a subject of the king of Greece, has for thirty-five days been asleep without interruption except for one day last week. Before being removed from his rooming house, 15 West Fifth street, on March 12, he has slept for four days.

Carolmas came to America from his home in Athens, about eight months ago. He worked on the railroad as a track layer after arriving in Missouri. Like most of the thrifty foreigners, Carolmas saved most of his wages and horded it for the proverbial rainy day. In some way which has not been satisfactorily explained he lost his little savings and brooded over his misfortune.

The Greeks who knew him were aware that Carolmas was brooding over his loss, but little attention was paid until March 8. That morning Carolmas failed to get up and go to work. His landlord knocked on the door of his room several times during the day to awaken him, but failed to receive any response. In the afternoon he entered the room and discovered that his roomer was sound asleep and that speaking to him or shaking him would not waken him. Becoming frightened the Greek landlord summoned Dr. George Ringel of the emergency hospital.

~ From the Kansas City Journal, April 13, 1909

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