Ripley's (Elephant Hung)
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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.
"...great scott!" Dilbert: Aren't all meetings like this... Richard Dawkins: "What if you're wrong?"
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"Blood letting" is also a good one. Although, I think that still goes on today. :rolleyes:
"...great scott!" Dilbert: Aren't all meetings like this... Richard Dawkins: "What if you're wrong?"
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.
"...great scott!" Dilbert: Aren't all meetings like this... Richard Dawkins: "What if you're wrong?"
1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
Croydon.
Ah! That explains everything. :-D
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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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