The Burke and Hare Murders

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🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Burke and Hare murders were a series of 16 killings committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.

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0:00.0	And so I said, you don't need to slice it.
0:03.1	I just want the ham.
0:04.8	Just give me the ham.
0:05.6	And what did she say?
0:07.7	Oh, you know, I have to get the manager and blah, blah, blah, blah.
0:11.6	Exactly.
0:12.4	We gotta stop going there.
0:13.3	Yeah, but that's giving them what they want.
0:15.5	Yeah, but I want as the ham.
0:17.3	Thank you.
0:18.2	Ha ha!
0:19.9	Dude, come on, really?
0:22.4	All over my shirt.
0:25.2	Wow, I gotta say usually we die at like,
0:28.0	like the end of the intro skit rather than the beginning, because Eli doesn't know
0:33.2	how to write buttons.
0:34.9	Okay, first of all, dying is a button, Cecil.
0:37.2	Okay.
0:38.2	Lots of great comments.
0:39.2	It is like the example of lazy writing.
0:41.2	Right.
0:42.2	Seconds.
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