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Topic ID: 151
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#1, RE: Gallian Gothic Book 3
Posted by Astynax on Mar-21-21 at 11:39 PM
In response to message #0
>La Môme Chiroptère - "The Little Bat".
>

As nicknames go, this is at least a few steps up from any variation on mosquito.

>He died from multiple cancers contracted as a result of drinking several bottles
>of radium-infused water, which was sold as a "health tonic" at the time, per day
>between 1927 and 1930--an achievement immortalized in the memorable Wall Street
>Journal
headline The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off.
>

Well, old timey headlines didn't mince words now did they. Pretty sure you wouldn't see anything so... direct in any supposedly reputable paper these days.


-={(Astynax)}=-
"Sometimes fanfic is a love letter to canon, sometimes it's a polite disagreement, and sometimes it's 95 things canon did wrong nailed to a door."