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The Bad Day Book Guaranteed to turn a rotten day into heavenly bliss
Excerpt from Book: Five wretched examples of bad luck in history Bad luck has been around a long time, longer than I can remember. We have included this chapter just to give you a few examples. Example #1 Cleo Caesar, last of the Caesars' daughter, planned her wedding to be the social event of the millennium in Rome. Cleo and her fiance' Earlicus Stoutamus had just finished their first round of the banquet and were headed for the vomitorium when, as luck would have it, a hoard of Vandals rode up with a million horsemen. The invaders immediately began pillaging right in the middle of the second course and to make matters worse, they were eating all the food, even the stuff that was to be saved for later. Because it's tough to pillage on an uncomfortable full stomach, the German tribal leaders asked the hostess for bags to put the leftovers in. (This is where the term, "sacking Rome" came from. Table of Contents:
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