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Malabarista - now with added pony Started conversation Apr 30, 2009
We've had a lot of "Cause of Death" style ones lately, but here's another one:
Which official cause of death appeared on an American (US) death certificate for the last time in 1910?
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted May 1, 2009
Death through slavery?
Otherwise it would have to be a Victorian mechanism!
Treason?
Mercury poisoning by occupation?
Witchcraft?
Good question!
MMF
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thranjax Posted May 1, 2009
Is it old age? I.e. since 1910 the Doctor has had to put something more specific down?
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bobstafford Posted May 1, 2009
Oh bother
Its a Mal question I think Im gonna regret that 
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted May 1, 2009
cause of death
american civil war, died of his ijury received, there in
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted May 1, 2009
Good suggestions - and they're all not it 
I've only got a few klaxons though, and nobody has tripped any yet. That's the good news.
The "Victorian mechanism" might be in the right direction, though...
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted May 1, 2009
Which official cause of death appeared on an American (US) death certificate for the last time in 1910?
being a no good low down varmint
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted May 1, 2009
If that were something people died from, the world would be a much nicer place...
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted May 1, 2009
>>The "Victorian mechanism" might be in the right direction, though...<<
Well, that's as clear as mud, then...
Run over by a steam-driven car?
Fell from a hot-air balloon?
Crushed by a threshing machine?
I don't know much about American agriculture... But I know threshing machines were lethal!
Did they have traction engines? Was the person crushed by one?
Tricky!
MMF
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted May 1, 2009
no cause of death was...he was a rebelious injun
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted May 1, 2009
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claiming to be the fastest gun in the west....(now called suicide)
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thranjax Posted May 1, 2009
This reminds me of a bit of old stand up by David Baddiel where he makes fun of the causes of death listed in a "Bill of Mortality" (record of the causes of death within a Parish - each Parish had to keep one by law from 1538). The causes of death included "Planets", "Suddenly", "Distracted" and "Rising of the Lights" and of course plain old "Evil". And "Teeth". Of course they are only funny until they are explained but it amused me at the time.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted May 1, 2009
That's a fascinating list. For QI, how do you die by "Planets"? 
But it's not any of those. 
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted May 1, 2009
Lunacy?
Was it the last person to die on a stage coach
In a cowboy shoot out?
The last person to die in the US cavalry, on horseback, against Amerindians?
MMF
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