Spontaneous Human Combustion

Didn't he die of a disease?

 

i thought he was still alive. he had MS, right? the superman curse.

 

What? Richard Pryor was superman?

 

no, a buncha people from the superman movies ended up fucked up, healthwise.

 

Ohhh, I didn't know that...

See, told ya, I wasn't smart!

 

there is only one thing that would have made the superman movies better, and that is if Pryor was superman.


Wouldn't that shit be great?!?

 

Hell yeah!

 

ah, man, the franchise woulda kept going right up until lois lane lost all her teeth and ended up in someone's back yard, wandering around, dehydrated and starving...

 

THATS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!

 

No I was joking about when he set him self on fire from smoking crack and went running down a street in Hollywood.
Then he got sick later on from MS.

 

dammit. ignorance killed the joke again!!

 

There is no such phenomenon as spontaneous human combustion.

The theory was disproven back in the 1980s, or early 90s. I saw several documentaries on it. The cases where it was reported to have happened were investigated by fire experts and it was shown that they had actually not combusted spontaneously, rather they all caught fire by accident and burned very slowly, as you would expect. Often the lower legs remain intact because there isn't as much fat on them as the rest of the body.

It's easy to want to believe in such theories/phenomena because they seem so strange and eerie, but unfortunately sometimes you just have to accept that some things are not true. (Like seances, for example.)

Superman III was crap. I adore Richard Pryor but he didn't belong in that movie. Nor did anyone, for that matter. Eugh! And let's not even mention the fourth film! Hopefully, next year's Superman film will make up for the last two flops.

 

nah. it's got a soap star as superman.

 

I had never even pondered spontaneous human combustion until I read this thread.

 

I think most of those cases where people burned up mostly involved smokingwhile they fell asleep...... and old people with low bone density.

 

yip!