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> NIC MARCURA, a Yugoslavian farmer
This is not a yugoslavian name or surname (I’m from the region). Sounds fake to me.
Whilst they’re funny, I don’t actually think that a lot of those are actually ironic. Barkley’s is fitting, Riesfeldt’s is just gross, and Story’s is coincidental.
Great stories. Not all true of course, but fun reading. Some of them, like digging your own grave and falling into it are a bit obvious.
I would have to add the death of Jerome I. Rodale during his appearance on the Dick Cavett Show. He’d just finished an interview in which he extolled the virtues of organic foods and exercise, and announced that “I’ve decided to live to be a hundred” and “I never felt better in my life!”
The elephant story is debunked by Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/critters/malice/feces.asp
The elephant story was really funny, or so my friend says. He was laughing for two hours straight because I had such a hard time explaining it. Go figure.

