Ripley's (Elephant Hung)
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Makes you wonder what things that are considered sane and normal now, will be considered ridiculous by our great grandchildren.
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
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Makes you wonder what things that are considered sane and normal now, will be considered ridiculous by our great grandchildren.
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
I was going to suggest "Gordon Brown", but then I re-read and saw "..things that are considered sane and normal now..", :)
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great scott. Poor elephants. Such gentle and intelligent animals.
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
Poor elephants.
Absotively! They always seem to be persecuted by one section of humanity, or another, all through history.
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"Blood letting" is also a good one. Although, I think that still goes on today. :rolleyes:
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Leeches are used today to treat circulation problems after reattaching a severed limb. Blood tends to build up in the reattached area, leeches do less damage in draining it while the circulatory system repairs itself than any alternatives.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Leeches are used today to treat circulation problems after reattaching a severed limb. Blood tends to build up in the reattached area, leeches do less damage in draining it while the circulatory system repairs itself than any alternatives.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
Yeah, but not people cutting themselves open with knives to let the 'bad blood' out. that's the sort of "blood letting" I was on about. :)
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Makes you wonder what things that are considered sane and normal now, will be considered ridiculous by our great grandchildren.
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
So to read the news each day, they had to cut down hundreds of trees, pulp it into paper, print lots of pages, send them out across the country in diesel burning delivery trucks and the you had to pay money for it? How stupid was that?
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
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Yeah, but not people cutting themselves open with knives to let the 'bad blood' out. that's the sort of "blood letting" I was on about. :)
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Similar - drilling holes into the skulls of 'mad' people to release demons. And that might have seemed to work if they accidentally lobotomised the patient.
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
I saw a fella on the bus when I was pissed one Saturday night who drilled holes into his head, because he said it "reduced pressure", and made him feel better. I asked him if he ever considered painkillers? He just stared at me. True story.
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I saw a fella on the bus when I was pissed one Saturday night who drilled holes into his head, because he said it "reduced pressure", and made him feel better. I asked him if he ever considered painkillers? He just stared at me. True story.
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I wish I was Hung like an ... oh never mind.
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Where was that? (Just to add to my list of towns to avoid)
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
Croydon.
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"Blood letting" is also a good one. Although, I think that still goes on today. :rolleyes:
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
Although, I think that still goes on today.
Trepanation [^]also has some modern adherents.
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Not stupid[^]: "Kill the elephant. Let's kill him," the crowd began chanting [...] The crowd's dissatisfaction with her absence was mollified by the announcement that Mary would be hung in the Clinchfield Railyards later in the afternoon -- with no additional charge for admission. but quite cruel really: [they] chained Mary's leg to the rail [...] They had a time getting the chain around her neck. Then they hooked the boom to the neck chain, and when they began to lift her up, I heard the bones and ligaments cracking in her foot. They finally discovered that she'd not been released from the rail, so they did that. [...]the chain from which Mary hung snapped shortly after she was raised off the ground [...] She hit the ground and sat upright, immobilized from the pain of a broken hip. [...] attached a heavier chain; the winch was put in motion a second time, and Mary died.
Don't attribute to stupidity what can be equally well explained by buerocracy.
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Croydon.
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
Croydon.
Ah! That explains everything. :-D
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Makes you wonder what things that are considered sane and normal now, will be considered ridiculous by our great grandchildren.
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
Boro_Bob wrote:
Makes you wonder what things that are considered sane and normal now, will be considered ridiculous by our great grandchildren.
Like spending billions of citizen dollars to bail out corporations that make automobiles, or sell insurance, or the people that put news on paper. Sorry, I'm venturing into Soapbox 1.0 territory now, but I couldn't resist.
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