Submitted by [deleted] t3_zvy58x in todayilearned
It has been falsey documented that Tennessee Williams choked to death on a bottle cap. We have since been informed that his death was caused by a barbiturate overdose.
yeah but posts must start with TIL try again
The “TIL” fits right at the beginning.
[removed]
TIL Tennessee Williams died from overdose, not from choking.
TIL that he died first of a bottle cap then in August he died of overdose of months later toxic level (1983) colorized in black and white
Besides, it's not a really a barbituary unless it was grown in Barbados.
I came here just to see if anyone else was having to read the title three times like I did. I have a coworker that writes like this. He's intelligent, well-spoken, and knowledgeable but he writes in such a convoluted way that I have to edit everything he sends to customers.
Do one.
“Tennesse Williams’s death was initially misreported as … “
Your title says it's a common misconception (a subjective statement) that his death report was corrected to say he died of a barbituary. (Which is not a word. You wanted to say barbiturate.)
“It was initially reported that Tennessee Williams had died …”
“Tennessee Williams died of x on x. However, an error in in the initial coroner’s report led to the persistent myth that xxx.”
The amount of down votes😂 POWNED🫵👇
A barbituary? Did you read that in his obituate? /s
He wrote a line for just such an occasion:
I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it! ^Blanche ^Dubois
> Secobarbital (marketed by Eli Lilly and Company for the treatment of insomnia under the brand name Seconal) is a short-acting barbiturate derivative drug that was patented in 1934 in the United States. It is the most frequently used drug in physician-assisted suicide within the United States. Secobarbital is considered to be an obsolete sedative-hypnotic (sleeping pill), and as a result, it has largely been replaced by the benzodiazepine family. Seconal was widely abused, known on the street as "red devils" or "reds".
Now the "fear and loathing" line and "people who died" lyrics make sense. Didn't know what "reds" were other than the ecstasy pills that most likely contained heroin.
Wot the fook have bottle caps to do with taking reds? Or any pills, can you tell me?
[deleted]
Mendacity
Bottle cap? MFer choked on a manhole cover.
Iamthewalrus3333 t1_j1rulzk wrote
There were so many clearer ways to word this.