Another reason why we're better off with Thomas Alva Edison's electric  lamp. 
 Slivers might not have been dead for more than these 90 years  if it hadn't 
been so easy to do away with oneself using energy intended for  illumination.  
And the world would have been a happier place if it hadn't  been for suicide 
by cock.  Gas cock, that is. 
 
Let us hoist a jar in his memory when next we meet.
 
Ralph  
 
 
In a message dated 6/22/2008 5:12:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
[log in to unmask] writes:

 
   
It is with sadness I report that the famous "Slivers the Clown" of  the 
Barnum & Bailey circus - aka Frank Oakley - killed himself with gas in  his 
furnished room at 308 West 71st Street, March 12, 1916.
 
Christopher 





 
____________________________________
 Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient _used  
cars_ (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) .
-- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among  pals and the 
uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:  
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html 




**************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for 
fuel-efficient used cars.      (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007)

--
To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:
<http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>