This is the robe and axe that belonged to Giovanni Bugatti, who served as the official executioner for the Pope from 1796 to 1864. Over the course of his career, he carried out 514 executions.

In the papal state, you are lucky if you are executed with an axe. Another form of execution sort of unique to the papal state involves the executioner hitting the victim over the head with a wooden mallet and then slitting the victim’s throat with a pen knife.

^High-falutin’ types got the sword.

Boru

When you were burned at the stake they'd charge your family for the bag of gunpowder they hung around your neck. Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky learned from them. "Two kopeks for the bullet we used to kill your son."

There's such a thing as a bilateral gynandromorph

(December 12, 2023 at 10:52 am)Fireball Wrote: There's such a thing as a bilateral gynandromorph

See, see what this LGBTQ+ indoctrination does?  Now even the birds are getting in on it.  

(December 12, 2023 at 10:52 am)Fireball Wrote: There's such a thing as a bilateral gynandromorph

sure,  there are also palindromorphs,   which is a worm that is the same on the front end and back end, and having no mouth but two anuses, one on each end.

many of these worms are to be found in the US capitol building,  infesting just over half of the seats in the house.

Apparently, my Dad is immune to the effects (either pharmacological or recreational) of cannabis.

In Eyes Wide Shut, for years, I assumed the mysterious woman who sacrifices herself to save Tom Cruise was just some random woman. I didn’t put too much stock in the theory that it was Mandy (due in no small part to her being played by a separate actress), at least until I saw this interview with Julienne Davis:





Apparently, the woman was supposed to be Mandy all along. Her actress just explained she couldn’t do it (due in no small part to an on-set injury involving her stiletto heels), so Kubrick just had Abigail Good go in her place. And He even had Cate Blanchett dub over her voice.

And, yes, with Kubrick, I do capitalize His pronouns.