# What a terrible way to die!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-terrible-way-to-die/120773>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 25, 2002, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-terrible-way-to-die/120773 "2002-07-25T15:14:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2002, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-terrible-way-to-die/120773/21 "2002-07-28T01:37:16Z")

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I don’t know - I’ve been having Homer Simpson moments since I read the story.

From ‘The Land of Chocolate’ to the epsiode where Homer is trapped under the candy machine outside his hospital room and is being gagged to death by chocolate bars falling out of it…

mmmmmmm, sweet chocolatey death. mmmmmmmmm

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2002, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-terrible-way-to-die/120773/22 "2002-07-28T01:41:55Z")

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I’ll never look at a dessert menu with “Death By Chocolate” the same way again.

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**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-terrible-way-to-die/120773/23 "2002-07-28T02:15:11Z")

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New from Hershey’s, The Kiss of Death.

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**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-terrible-way-to-die/120773/24 "2002-07-28T03:44:08Z")

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I can’t be the only person thinking of Augustus Gloop.

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**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-terrible-way-to-die/120773/25 "2002-07-28T05:08:11Z")

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I had a great uncle who died in a similar fashion.

Except he worked in a paper factory.

And he fell in a vat of acid.

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**Author:** ![Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linus_Van_Pelt)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2002, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-terrible-way-to-die/120773/26 "2002-07-28T05:17:13Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Olentzero \*  
> \*\*Is anyone else besides me having a Smothers Brothers moment over this one? \*\*

Heh. That’s the first thing I thought of.

“I yelled fire when I fell into the chocolate”…

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-terrible-way-to-die/120773/27 "2002-07-28T23:24:35Z")

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Damn, but I _hate_ moving threads involving chocolate out of IMHO!

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