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Last-Minute Gifts From the 16th Century
"Each bead of the rosary represents the bust of a well-fed burgher or maiden on one side, and a skeleton on the other. The terminals, even more graphically, show the head of a deceased man, with half the image eaten away from decay."
—This silver-and-ivory "charm bracelet" from the 1500s is not for sale, or a charm bracelet, but its charms are freaky! Paging Pinochle! [Via]
Yes, but where are the diamond weevil charms?
Seriously, Get Rid of Your Decayed Guy Charm Bracelet, It's Revolting
When the mortality rate is like 50%, people become pretty chummy with death imagery.
@Too Much Internet We can only imagine what might happen if mortality ever affected the entire population.
@Too Much Internet
In 16th century, ivories tickle you.
@Too Much Internet I'm pretty sure the mortality rate back then was actually 100%. How far we've come!
@wharrgarbl: YES, very clever everyone. I, too, was thinking of that Onion article that stated 'Worldwide Mortality Rate still at 100%'.
Now quiet, peanut gallery!
@Too Much Internet No more rhyming, now; I mean it.
@melis Anybody want a peanut?
@melis: NO SINGING.
@Too Much Internet No touching! No touching!
HODIE MIHI CRAS TIBI
@atipofthehat
"Today me; tomorrow YOU"
@atipofthehat :-O
@Edith Zimmerman
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@atipofthehat [shriek]
@Edith Zimmerman
How did you even DO that ????
@Edith Zimmerman
This is even scarier than the time you snuck up on me and Punkahontas when we were strolling innocently near your house with a nice doll.
@atipofthehat I loved that time
But basically what we're saying here is that 16th-century charm bracelets didn't fuck around.
I am so happy I'm a bubble gum doll
are you sure they aren't carved from HUMAN BONES