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Subject: RE: .
From: JennyO
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 01:07 PM

Two - and a dash of milk please.

Subject: RE: .
From: autolycus
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 02:18 PM

There'll




Be




One bottle of beer, hanging on t............

Subject: RE: .
From: John Hardly
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 02:55 PM

Is this the thread where we talk about our experiences being pregnant?

Subject: RE: .
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 02:59 PM

Have you taken the test then John? If you are, I certainly am not the father!

Subject: RE: .
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 03:51 PM

Paul Tibbets was born in my home town.

Subject: RE: .
From: John Hardly
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 04:27 PM

"Have you taken the test then John? If you are, I certainly am not the father!"

Certainly NOT! We only had that one night together. Man, I was good though, wasn't I?

...hung like a gnat was a compliment, wasn't it?

Subject: RE: .
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 04:37 PM

ROFLOL.....Should have been huing like a common criminal I reckon!

Subject: RE: .
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 04:38 PM

hung even

Subject: RE: .
From: Severn
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 04:53 PM

GS,

Hung like a horse OR hung like a horse thief? You get to choose only one.

Rapaire,

Thanks for the Paul Tidbits!

Subject: RE: .
From: beardedbruce
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 04:54 PM

"
From: Georgiansilver - PM
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 04:38 PM

hung even "

As opposed to hung odd?

Subject: RE: .
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 05:25 PM

Did you know that the British hangmen used a mathematical formula to determine the drop? But it was also needful to view the "subject" as the person's build (e.g., a thick, bull-like neck) could affect the result. In this, as in so many other human endeavors, science was helpful but experience was what pulled it off successfully.

Subject: RE: .
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 05:27 PM

pulled what off?..the head...LOL

Subject: RE: .
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 11:02 PM

Here's the table that was used. This assumes a nice, thick, strong rope. You can work out the formula.

Hanging drop (assuming thick strong rope):

Weight                                 Drop

14 stone (196 lbs.)                   8 ft. 0 in.
13 1/2 stone (189 lbs.)                8 ft. 2 in.
13 stone (182 lbs.)                   8 ft. 4 in.
12 1/2 stone (175 lbs.)                8 ft. 6 in.
12 stone (168 lbs.)                   8 ft. 8 in.
11 1/2 stone (161 lbs.)                8 ft. 10 in.
11 stone (154 lbs.)                   9 ft. 0 in.
10 1/2 stone (147 lbs.)                9 ft. 2 in.
10 stone (140 lbs.)                   9 ft. 4 in.
9 1/2 stone (133 lbs.)                9 ft. 6 in.
9 stone (126 lbs.)                     9 ft. 8 in.
8 1/2 stone (119 lbs.)                9 ft. 10 in.
8 stone (112 lbs.)                     10 ft. 0 in

I guess if you weighed more than 196 lbs. they didn't hang you.

Aren't you glad to find this sort of thing out? You never know when you might need to know this stuff.

Subject: RE: .
From: JennyO
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 11:11 PM

Do you think this might be useful for hanging my new curtains?

Subject: RE: .
From: Bert
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 12:37 AM

Bob's your Uncle.

Subject: RE: .
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 02:38 AM

Uncle Bob died some years back and Aunty has gone now too...........
Still got aunty Marj and Aunty Edna.....

Subject: RE: .
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 03:34 AM

I had an uncle Doug. A nasty piece of work he was. He should have been well hung - with a good strong rope. Only then you call it hanged, don't you.

Subject: RE: .
From: GUEST,The Barden of England at work
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 03:48 AM

How did Blind Pugh know it was a Black Spot?

Subject: RE: .
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 04:10 AM

Blind Pugh whugh?

Subject: RE: .
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 04:25 AM

Should have been called a 'blackhead' shouldn't it?

Subject: RE: .
From: beardedbruce
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 05:38 AM

"I guess if you weighed more than 196 lbs. they didn't hang you."


Another reason NOT to lose weight!

Subject: RE: .
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 08:41 AM

Since he didn't seem to wash often, was Blind Pugh's pew pew from Blind Pugh's poo?

Subject: RE: .
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 08:59 AM

Eeeeeeeeuuuuuggghhhhhhh!

Subject: RE: .
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 10:13 AM

Where DO you hide from a blind person with a gun?

Subject: RE: .
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 11:04 AM

Elsewhere. WAY elsewhere.

Subject: RE: .
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 11:32 AM

If you have a gun, why would you need to hide from a blind person?

Subject: RE: .
From: John Hardly
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 12:43 PM

wa-HOO!! 400!!

Subject: RE: .
From: John Hardly
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 12:44 PM

...wait...

...I already did this one, didn't I?

Subject: RE: .
From: John Hardly
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 01:04 PM

Did the man who shot Liberty's Valence ever replace it with full-length curtains?

Subject: RE: .
From: John Hardly
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 01:05 PM

Does the Star Of Counting Down work at NASA?

Subject: RE: .
From: Severn
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 06:46 PM

I thought Werner Von Brains was dead. Who's the Co-Star?

Subject: RE: .
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 06:52 PM

Have you seen Amanda Jane, in the hills of Shiloh?

Subject: RE: .
From: John Hardly
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 07:54 PM

So this guy is out in a boat in the bay (it doesn't matter which bay) and this floating thing comes by with writing all over it. The guy can't read the writing but is very curious as to what the writing says.

Knowing just how to solve this, he hauls the floating thing into the boat and goes to shore. He picks the thing up under his arm and walks up the dock and into town. There he finds what he's looking for. On a little side street is a smalls shop with a sign outside that says:

Read Here -- Bouy

Subject: RE: .
From: cookster
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 08:03 PM

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahaahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ahahahahahahahaahahahahahahaha hhahaahahahahahahaha That was a good joke.

Subject: RE: .
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 09:21 PM

        

That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
We thought it was the Judgement-day

And sat upright. While drearisome
Arose the howl of wakened hounds:
The mouse let fall the altar-crumb,
The worm drew back into the mounds,

The glebe cow drooled. Till God cried, "No;
It's gunnery practice out at sea
Just as before you went below;
The world is as it used to be:

"All nations striving strong to make
Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters
They do no more for Christés sake
Than you who are helpless in such matters.

"That this is not the judgment-hour
For some of them's a blessed thing,
For if it were they'd have to scour
Hell's floor for so much threatening. . . .

"Ha, ha. It will be warmer when
I blow the trumpet (if indeed
I ever do; for you are men,
And rest eternal sorely need)."

So down we lay again. "I wonder,
Will the world ever saner be,"
Said one, "than when He sent us under
In our indifferent century!"

And many a skeleton shook his head.
"Instead of preaching forty year,"
My neighbour Parson Thirdly said,
"I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer."

Again the guns disturbed the hour,
Roaring their readiness to avenge,
As far inland as Stourton Tower,
And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge.

Subject: RE: .
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 07 - 10:02 PM

LITTLE ANDREW
      AIR -- "Gypsy's Warning"

Andrew was a little infant,
      And his life was two years old;
He was his parents' eldest boy,
      And he was drowned, I was told.
His parents never more can see him
      In this world of grief and pain,
And Oh! they will not forget him
      While on earth they do remain.

On one bright and pleasant morning
      His uncle thought it would be nice
To take his dear little nephew
      Down to play upon a raft,
Where he was to work upon it,
      An this little child would company be --
The raft the water rushed around it,
      Yet he the danger did not see.

This little child knew no danger --
      Its little soul was free from sin --
He was looking in the water,
      When, alas, this child fell in.
Beneath the raft the water took him,
      For the current was so strong,
And before they could rescue him
      He was drowned and was gone.

Oh! how sad were his kind parents
      When they saw their drowned child,
As they brought him from the water,
      It almost made their hearts grow wild.
Oh! how mournful was the parting
      From that little infant son.
Friends, I pray you, all take warning,
      Be careful of your little ones.

Subject: RE: .
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 02:12 PM

Come gather round people wherever you roam,
And admit that this odd thread, around you has grown.
And some of the posts have been quite near the bone,
But some other threads too have been fading.
So you'd better start posting or 'twill sink like a stone,
For the thread it is a changin'

Subject: RE: .
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 02:23 PM

Is not.

Subject: RE: .
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 02:27 PM

Is

Subject: RE: .
From: John Hardly
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 02:46 PM

Id

Subject: RE: .
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 03:30 PM

Id ergo ego.

Subject: RE: .
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 03:59 PM

ROFLOL

Subject: RE: .
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 04:29 PM

There you go.

Subject: RE: .
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 05:13 PM

Cogito cogito cogito, ergo cogito cogito sum, cogito.

Subject: RE: .
From: Severn
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 08:43 PM

I hate to button to things and I hate things not to button, but a change of thread every once in a while is nesscessary to help hold things both up and together, and for other stuff as well, sew its seams, sew that every needle be taken care of, darn it all!

Subject: RE: .
From: John Hardly
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 09:10 PM

Red Buttons Skates

Subject: RE: .
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 09:11 PM

So, Severn, sew swell seams since sewing seems suitable.

Subject: RE: .
From: Severn
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 09:31 PM

Hey! I can actually say that real fast 10 times in a row without a mistake!

Subject: RE: .
From: John Hardly
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 10:23 PM

The end is near.

Subject: RE: .
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 10:26 PM

The end is rear.