Comments on: Famously Ugly People in History

By: the prophet

the prophet — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:35:38 +0000

Sounds pretty ugly!

By: Neatoramawontsendmeapassword

Neatoramawontsendmeapassword — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:45:52 +0000

Like the women had any choice.

By: RM

RM — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:21:38 +0000

"None of this stopped him from marrying 12 beautiful women and dying while devirginizing his last one."

Pure myth.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:30:32 +0000

I wouldn't be surprised if the ones doing the describing of Atilla were Roman citizens themselves. I would very much doubt they would give any "barbarian" a flattering description.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:02:07 +0000

When I was little, a saw a picture of Eleanor Roosevelt and it scared me. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But I was just a little kid and hadn't caught on to that thinking!

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:21:38 +0000

Thanks for catching that, Sniperman.

By: ted

ted — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:01:14 +0000

Deflower. If he died in the act of coitus, it doesn't mean he was ugly.

By: dignam

dignam — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:56:44 +0000

They forgot about George Eliot. I'm disappointed.

By: Sniperman

Sniperman — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:38:37 +0000

oh and here is some more info from the death from wiki:

Attila died in the early months of 453. The conventional account, from Priscus, says that at a feast celebrating his latest marriage to the beautiful and young Ildico (if uncorrupted, the name suggests a Gothic origin)[10] he suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death in a stupor. An alternative theory is that he succumbed to internal bleeding after heavy drinking or a condition called esophageal varices, where a hemorrhoid in the lower part of the esophagus ruptures leaving the person to choke on his/her own blood.

By: Sniperman

Sniperman — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:36:27 +0000

isn't it spelled Attila, with two Ts?

By: bean

bean — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:24:38 +0000

I had no idea 'devirginizing' was a word.

By: kuanes

kuanes — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:04:07 +0000

i see what you did there!