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Today's Physically Sickening Yet Truly Morbid Fact!

Clint Malarchuk is a former Canadian ice hockey goaltender who played in the NHL between 1981 and 1992. He is probably best known for an injury sustained during one of the most horrific in-game incidents in sports history. The notable incident occurred during a game on March 22, 1989 between the visiting St. Louis Blues and Malarchuk's Buffalo Sabres. Steve Tuttle of the Blues and Uwe Krupp of the Sabres collided at the mouth of the goal, and Tuttle's skate caught Malarchuk on the throat, slicing open his outer jugular vein. With pools of blood collecting on the ice, Malarchuk somehow left the ice under his own power with the assistance of his team's trainer, Jim Pizzatelli. Many spectators were physically sickened by the sight with seven fainting and two suffering heart attacks. Local television cameras covering the game instantly cut away from the sight of Malarchuck. Malarchuk spent only one night in the hospital, and was back on the ice with his team two weeks later. After Malarchuk's injury, the NHL instituted a policy requiring all goalies to wear neck protection.

Culled from: Wikipedia
Generously suggested by: JenHas

If you'd like to see the gruesome incident for yourself, be my guest!

And here's a photograph as well, for good measure.


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Wretched Recommendations!

VoodooMarie has a fascinating book recommendation for us!

Thoughts on the Death of Little Children by Samuel Irenaeus Prime

"I found very possibly the darkest book the other day. It's entitled The Death of Little Children and was written in 1856, so unless you're lucky, you probably won't be able to find a copy. If nothing else, it is a dark look into a time when infant mortality was high and deaths were expected. What makes this little gem fascinating is the fact that it contains such rational for a child's death as: 'The creature so dear to you may have been taken from sad reverse of fortune, or from the commission of some great crime, which might have endangered his salvation. To secure this, God has removed him from temptation.' As a parent, that would be the last thing I would want to hear. The rest of the book is filled with hymns and poetry designed to reconcile the parental soul to the death of its child. The author was Samuel Irenaeus Prime, and the copy of the book I have is a fourth edition, which means that this genre had a market. I thought you might appreciate hearing about this example."

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"My Brother's Brush With Morbidity" by Tim

"[My brother] worked up here in South Daytona at 'Marcell Gardens' a few years back. He got a complaint from a bottom floor that some kind of red fluid was flowing through the roof! He went to the apartment above to ask what he was doing... the guy was panting, but very cordial, and he said it was photo developing fluid. So my brother went on about his work. He was very busy and is probably too trusting! The next day, the police were there and they found out it was a murder. It was 'Gugliomo' and he had murdered his wife and cut her up in pieces in order to carry her out. That was the blood that flowed through to the bottom floor. He dumped the head somewhere in Georgia and the rest of the body along the way, but they did catch him and my brother had to testify at the trial. I said, David, talk about a red flag!"

Indeed! And what sort of non-morbid mind would not suspect blood in the first place? Certainly none of us would miss a clue like that.

Yup, I've heard about that injury before. I'm not going to look at the video, but trust me when I say it was very bad. :P

I've done maybe about half my project, which is pretty good. Yay for that community not being very active lately? heh

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary," but when you step away from the Great Lakes, you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
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Drake's Devil Dogs

Here's a clone recipe for a favorite East Coast treat that could even fool Rosie O'Donnell. The snack food-loving talk show hostess professes her love for these tasty Drake's goodies all the time on her daytime show. And who could blame her? It's hard not to relish the smooth, fluffy filling sandwiched between two tender devil's food cake fingers. I'll take a Devil Dog over a Twinkie any day of the week. For this clone recipe, we'll make the cakes from scratch. This will help us to create a flavor and texture closest to the original, although the color will be much lighter than the real thing (the miracles of food coloring). But if you're feeling especially lazy, you can certainly use a devil's food cake mix in place of the scratch recipe here. Just make the filling with the recipe below and assemble your cakes the same way.

Cake
1 egg
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Filling
2 cups marshmallow creme (1 7-ounce jar)
1 cup shortening
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons very hot water

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. In a medium bowl... blend together the egg, shortening, and sugar with an electric mixer. Continue beating while adding the milk and vanilla.
3. In another bowl... sift together the remaining cake ingredients: flour, cocoa, salt, and baking powder.
4. Combine the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients, and beat until smooth.
5. Spoon about a tablespoon of the batter in strips about 4 inches long and 1 inch wide on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake for 5 to 6 minutes, or until the cakes are done. Cool.
6. In another bowl... combine the marshmallow creme, shortening, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Dissolve the 1/8 teaspoon of salt in the 2 teaspoons of very hot water in a small bowl. Add this salt solution to the filling mixture and beat on high speed with an electric mixer until the filling is smooth and fluffy.
7. When the cakes have cooled, spread about a tablespoon of filling on the face of one cake, and top it off with another cake. Repeat with the remaining ingredients. Makes 20 to 24 snack cakes.