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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #45 on: May 23, 2006, 11:51:15 pm »
Let's not forget about drawing and quartering!  They get those too.
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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #46 on: May 23, 2006, 11:53:01 pm »
when i saw it, I thought "ta-bluh"
and I wasn't really sure why.

also: yeah pretty sure the neck breaks
at least, if you do it right it does.
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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #47 on: May 24, 2006, 12:17:36 am »
I heard you had to tip the hangman in advance if you wanted your neck broken.
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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #48 on: May 24, 2006, 12:36:36 am »
Quote from: misterqueue on May 23, 2006, 11:34:32 pm
Actually if you do it right they're dead pretty much the instant they drop (From neck breakage).  If they are not then you used too thin a rope which chokes them to death in an (Even more) inhumane manner.  Maybe this is your intent though, so carry on.

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"Hanged by the neck until dead" appears to be a common expression.  And further down, the calculation to ensure that the victim is not asphyxiated is explained.
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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #49 on: May 24, 2006, 12:47:40 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on May 23, 2006, 11:53:01 pm
when i saw it, I thought "ta-bluh"
and I wasn't really sure why.

also: yeah pretty sure the neck breaks
at least, if you do it right it does.

And if you hang a big fat guy or a regular sized guy and have them drop too far, the head comes clean off. Messy.
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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #50 on: May 24, 2006, 04:04:03 am »
people used to bribe local children to come hang on their legs to make sure that they were dead.

otherwise, when the hangman would give the body to the local "doctor" to dissect, the poor fellow would sometimes wake up under the knife.
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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #51 on: May 24, 2006, 01:15:15 pm »
"We sentence the accused here before us, Tuco Benedtio Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez, to hang by the neck until dead.  May God have mercy on his soul.  Proceed!"
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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #52 on: May 24, 2006, 01:24:09 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on May 24, 2006, 04:04:03 am
people used to bribe local children to come hang on their legs to make sure that they were dead.

otherwise, when the hangman would give the body to the local "doctor" to dissect, the poor fellow would sometimes wake up under the knife.

Dammit, now I want to read the Baroque Cycle again. But who has that kind of time?
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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #53 on: May 24, 2006, 04:05:45 pm »
Quote from: AlohaDawg on May 24, 2006, 12:47:40 am
And if you hang a big fat guy or a regular sized guy and have them drop too far, the head comes clean off. Messy.

Death by inertia is only acceptable punishment for those who break the laws of physics.
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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #54 on: May 24, 2006, 04:17:43 pm »
Quote from: Turbo Ninja on May 24, 2006, 04:05:45 pm
Death by inertia is only acceptable punishment for those who break the laws of physics.

This perpetual motion machine she made is a joke : It just keeps going faster and faster.


(That's thermodynamics, but close enough)
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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #55 on: May 24, 2006, 05:01:48 pm »
Quote from: misterqueue on May 24, 2006, 04:17:43 pm
This perpetual motion machine she made is a joke : It just keeps going faster and faster.


(That's thermodynamics, but close enough)

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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #56 on: May 24, 2006, 05:32:24 pm »
Quote from: Turbo Ninja on May 24, 2006, 04:05:45 pm
Death by inertia is only acceptable punishment for those who break the laws of physics.

If I was more physics-minded, this would easily be my sig. Well-said, sir. Well-said.

This entire thread-turn is reminding me of a conversation I had during high school with a friend of mine who was going through one of her many Explosively Crazy Phases and decided that she needed to start designing alternate methods of execution. Her big idea was some sort of complicated "flying guillotine" spring-loaded chakram-neckpiece/bungee-cord apparatus, at which point we had a long conversation about cruel and unusual punishment that resulted in a certain degree of mutual disgust. What really broke that friendship up was her eventual decision that she was the soul-daughter of the goddess Kali and a guardian dragon on the astral plane, but damn if that flying guillotine didn't help.
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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #57 on: May 24, 2006, 09:21:29 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on May 23, 2006, 09:41:44 pm
dude, there is a restaurant right by my house called
"table"
including the lowercase t. it is pretty rediculous.

What are the tables like?
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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #58 on: May 24, 2006, 10:09:31 pm »
Quote from: V-Adore on May 24, 2006, 05:32:24 pm
Her big idea was some sort of complicated "flying guillotine" spring-loaded chakram-neckpiece/bungee-cord apparatus, at which point we had a long conversation about cruel and unusual punishment that resulted in a certain degree of mutual disgust.

Shouldn't the phrase really be cruel and/or unusual punishment? That flying guillotine is pretty unusual but I'm not sure it's crueler than a regular-type guillotine, and I'm really not too keen on the thought of cruel and boring punishment either (e.g. executing a guy by hitting him with a regular old stick until he has been battered to death.)
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Re: 23 May 2006 - Sciencize it cool
« Reply #59 on: May 24, 2006, 10:32:41 pm »
Quote from: *****_god on May 24, 2006, 09:21:29 pm
What are the tables like?

That's the best part! There aren't any! It's culinary hipster irony!
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