Stranger Than Fiction: Dice

Did you know that in English gambling dens during the eighteenth century there was always an employee whose sole job was to swallow the dice in the event of a police raid?

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10 Comments

  1. Lillian T.
    Posted August 22, 2009 at 8:58 pm | Permalink

    well that can’t be very healthy…

  2. Posted August 22, 2009 at 9:18 pm | Permalink

    Just remember something fun aahuhauhauhaUHAUHA that absurd =O

  3. eepshyes
    Posted August 22, 2009 at 11:37 pm | Permalink

    I wonder how they chose people for that.

    Here, swallow these dice and you got the job.

  4. BekkyS.
    Posted August 23, 2009 at 12:59 pm | Permalink

    ow, i bet that hurts. if i had that job i’d expect a LOT of payment

  5. Posted August 23, 2009 at 11:45 pm | Permalink

    ouch?

  6. Alice
    Posted August 24, 2009 at 11:52 am | Permalink

    Owww… reading this made my throat hurt. ):

    Wow…. that’s just…… wow…

  7. Moth
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 7:43 pm | Permalink

    I guess thats the origin of Craps?
    +Rimshot+

  8. mandieville666
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 8:50 pm | Permalink

    @moth oh that’s just wrong…….

  9. Posted September 27, 2010 at 7:38 pm | Permalink

    Poor guy.

  10. Hannah Houston
    Posted April 17, 2011 at 6:36 pm | Permalink

    wow, i wonder if his job was to also pick the dice out of his shit the next morning so they could use them again…

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