vortex
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« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2007, 11:44:11 AM » |
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Does exile count? Like Ovid's exile to the Black Sea = my exile to this place.
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It is in this fathom-long body endowed with mind that the beginning and end of this world are made known. -- The Buddha
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« Reply #16 on: August 10, 2007, 01:04:04 PM » |
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As a medievalist I take umbrage at the specification of torture device!
*shaking fist and chomping on my pipe in my smoking jacket*
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Who looks for God in the Bible? That's pretty dumb.
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« Reply #17 on: August 10, 2007, 01:46:52 PM » |
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You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright
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« Reply #18 on: August 10, 2007, 02:31:04 PM » |
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Oh, I thought this said "What medieval torture device best describes you?"
Now I have to figure out a new one.
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« Reply #19 on: August 10, 2007, 02:36:58 PM » |
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Branks, aka "Scold's Bridle."
Must STFU about anything and everything or risk being made into a donkey's ass by the chair for all to see.
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"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist." -George Carlin
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historywoman
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« Reply #20 on: August 10, 2007, 02:49:13 PM » |
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The Bra. With Underwires. Had to have been invented by a sadist. Definitely by a man.
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Stick that in your trebuchet and fling it!
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« Reply #21 on: August 11, 2007, 05:13:19 PM » |
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The dunking seat.
I keep going from having hope that everything will work out to being unable to move or breathe.
If only I could rat someone out to the Inquisition and get off the hook.
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If you haven't got either the anatomical or metaphorical balls to post your own question on a pseudonymous internet forum, then academia is the wrong job for you.
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gennimom
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« Reply #22 on: August 11, 2007, 05:32:59 PM » |
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The Rack.
Oh wait. I want one of those. My back could use it.
Nevermind.
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dr_stones
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пошлите законоведами пушки и деньг
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« Reply #23 on: August 12, 2007, 11:59:45 AM » |
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Oh, that'd have to be Roman Catholicism. I am surrounded by doctrinaire ideologues who will kill me unless I convert. Dare I spout "heresy" I will be burned at the stake. Myself, it's the thing where they attach the horses to each limb and send them off in different directions.
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"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Samuel "Steroid Free" Clemens
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malcha
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« Reply #24 on: August 12, 2007, 12:52:07 PM » |
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Does exile count? Like Ovid's exile to the Black Sea = my exile to this place.
Are you writing lots of very whiny poetry? That way you could at least torture the world right back. |
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pilchard
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« Reply #25 on: August 12, 2007, 08:26:17 PM » |
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hey larry - I'm going to Spamalot next month. Have you seen it? Spamalot is LOL funny (as is the Comfy Chair) -- well worth the cost of a ticket! |
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« Reply #26 on: August 12, 2007, 10:13:29 PM » |
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Monastic living, i.e., poverty and celibacy.
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Who looks for God in the Bible? That's pretty dumb.
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« Reply #27 on: August 13, 2007, 04:10:54 AM » |
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The constant squabbling between the Catholic and Orthodox churches that resulted from the Schism.
The rest of my life is quite good, thank you very much.
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Fortune favors the bold. Excellent analysis by Normative. All hail Normie! Normative, that was superb. |
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vortex
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« Reply #28 on: August 13, 2007, 10:07:57 AM » |
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Oh, that'd have to be Roman Catholicism. I am surrounded by doctrinaire ideologues who will kill me unless I convert. Dare I spout "heresy" I will be burned at the stake. Myself, it's the thing where they attach the horses to each limb and send them off in different directions.
This is called drawing and quartering, I think. Quartering. Drawing is where they cut you open and mutilate you. (William Wallace was drawn, hung, and quartered -- "strangled by hanging but released while still alive, emasculated, eviscerated and his bowels burnt before him, beheaded, then cut into four parts." The movie did not do this justice.) It's a testament to human cruelty that they would have seen the need to do both so often that the two are taken as virtually inseparable. |
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It is in this fathom-long body endowed with mind that the beginning and end of this world are made known. -- The Buddha
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scheherazade
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« Reply #29 on: August 13, 2007, 01:20:54 PM » |
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Oh, that'd have to be Roman Catholicism. I am surrounded by doctrinaire ideologues who will kill me unless I convert. Dare I spout "heresy" I will be burned at the stake. Myself, it's the thing where they attach the horses to each limb and send them off in different directions.
This is called drawing and quartering, I think. Quartering. Drawing is where they cut you open and mutilate you. (William Wallace was drawn, hung, and quartered -- "strangled by hanging but released while still alive, emasculated, eviscerated and his bowels burnt before him, beheaded, then cut into four parts." The movie did not do this justice.) It's a testament to human cruelty that they would have seen the need to do both so often that the two are taken as virtually inseparable. Yep, drawing and quartering was common for "traitors" to the crown, just like burning at the stake was for heretics. If they were really feeling generous or sympathetic, they would hang until dead before going through the other stuff. The spectacle continues for the crowd either way. |
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