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145 - History's Most Interesting Non-Water Floods

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How Many People Died in the London Beer Flood

When can you laugh about things that happen that are ironic i think it depends. The scale of the atrocity says it's always too soon like how many people died in the london beer flood and five of them were at an irish wake for their little boy who had died. An irish wake is actually a drinkUm that that's a cocktail and i didn't know that it doubled as that okay it does  and uh it is not beer it isn't just one or two drinks but three, four glasses of what they call "Irish Whiskey" um yeah so I'll have the cookies that i don't know according to your little con mustache on my eight-year-

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