the creator has a weird sense of humor

Otto ottosell at googlemail.com
Wed Apr 18 16:11:38 CDT 2012


Here's the original (with picture):
http://www.landes-zeitung.de/portal/lokales/lz-heute_Leiche-loest-Schlotbrand-im-Krematorium-aus-_arid,419342.html

It happened in the "Pied Piper"-town of Hamelin ("Hameln").

2012/4/18 Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>:
> 1. More than 50% with an increase of 1% per year.
>
> This has the numbers from 1998, from the „The Cremation Society of
> Great Britain“:
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuerbestattung#Heute
>
> More protestant, more cremation.
>
> 2. It looks like if that is the case:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity
>
>
> Next thing they'll find out will be that cremation adds too much CO2
> to climate change and should be forbidden. Bad for the Hindus...
>
>
>
> 2012/4/18 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
>> Here's a question (or two):
>>
>> 1.  Are Germans more cremation-happy than other European nations?
>>
>> 2.  Are Germans more obese than the rest of Europe?
>>
>> Unless one of these is a "yes," then the article would seem a
>> deliberate (nazi-ish) provocation.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Interestingly I can't find a German version of this article...
>>>
>>> btw  no offense taken



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