What I find interesting about this list, is the lack of deaths due to mythical creatures. Clearly, by the 17th Century, Ghosts, Bugaboos, Wyverns, Witches, Werewolves, Vampires, Dragons etc were all extinct.
However, equally interesting is how their once-legendary nefariousness has stuck in the human psyche.
Today I had a Pot Noodle, Essentially, I have concluded that the flavour is fairly irrelevant, they all taste of Pot Noodle.
From muscle memory, I deduced that this one tasted pretty much exactly the same as the last one I had (though it was some years ago) and I further concluded that they should probably do away with names of flavours and instead name them after the dominant colours of the pot itself. The one I just had would have been Grey and Red pot.... noodle.
I'm fairly confident that sales would go up and that the management of peoples expectations regarding the `actual' flavour of the contents would allow more people to enjoy them, as their expectations would revolve around the packaging, not the contents... A bit like seeing a tidy bird in block and tackle versus one who is just in the nuddy.
The actual flavour of my Pot Noodle was allegedly Sticky Rib... there is a clue there that you are being sold a dream. Because as far as I can tell, sticky isn't a flavour, it's a sensation related to covalent bonding or van der Waals forces, respectively. However, ribs do taste of something, dependent on the animal they were harvested from, but it isn't Pot Noodle.
I rest my case.
PS: Bombay Bad Boy (a Pot Noodle flavour) sounds like medium-brown dildo.
PPS: This is an observation on colloquial language related to sex toys, not a racial slur.
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