happy_tiger
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I have said I want everybody at my funeral to be wearing a Life Be In It T shirt
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Anti authority teen me always had to pop big one only
PrattenParkMagpie
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The old 'pop top' cans, could drink the entire can without actually opening the can.
My sister was so cool she only opened and drank out of the small one
Halbrowne61
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Memories !
A giant with a heart too big for one continent. Phar Lap ran as if fatigue didn't apply to him — and during the Great Depression, for millions of people, neither did despair.
Then, on April 5, 1932, sixteen days after dominating the Agua Caliente Handicap in Mexico, he collapsed at a ranch near San Francisco and died in the arms of his devoted strapper, Tommy Woodcock.
The official verdict was internal hemorrhage. But arsenic turned up in his system, and theories have multiplied ever since: American gangsters protecting their bets, an arsenic-based tonic (a common practice among trainers at the time), even a bacterial infection not identified until decades later. A 2008 study confirmed arsenic poisoning — but never whether it was deliberate.
When his heart was weighed, the mystery of his stamina made sense: 6.2 kg, nearly double the average thoroughbred's. It's why Australians still say someone has "a heart as big as Phar Lap's."
Then, on April 5, 1932, sixteen days after dominating the Agua Caliente Handicap in Mexico, he collapsed at a ranch near San Francisco and died in the arms of his devoted strapper, Tommy Woodcock.
The official verdict was internal hemorrhage. But arsenic turned up in his system, and theories have multiplied ever since: American gangsters protecting their bets, an arsenic-based tonic (a common practice among trainers at the time), even a bacterial infection not identified until decades later. A 2008 study confirmed arsenic poisoning — but never whether it was deliberate.
When his heart was weighed, the mystery of his stamina made sense: 6.2 kg, nearly double the average thoroughbred's. It's why Australians still say someone has "a heart as big as Phar Lap's."
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