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Started by RCMerchant, June 27, 2022, 03:00:36 PM

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ER

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True or false: Mary Queen of Scots died with a small dog concealed under her skirts.
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Allhallowsday

Quote from: ER on February 13, 2023, 11:59:40 PM
One good Mary question inspires another.

True or false: Mary Queen of Scots died with a small dog concealed under her skirts.
True. 

Tell me about the weapon and the execution. 
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indianasmith

Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 14, 2023, 12:10:45 AM
Quote from: ER on February 13, 2023, 11:59:40 PM
One good Mary question inspires another.

True or false: Mary Queen of Scots died with a small dog concealed under her skirts.
True. 

Tell me about the weapon and the execution. 

I know the headsman was drunk and utterly botched the job.
"I shall smite you in the nostrils with a rod of iron, and wax your spleen with Efferdent!!"

ER

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Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 14, 2023, 12:10:45 AM
Quote from: ER on February 13, 2023, 11:59:40 PM
One good Mary question inspires another.

True or false: Mary Queen of Scots died with a small dog concealed under her skirts.
True.  

Tell me about the weapon and the execution.  
True.
Well, it was an ax, the first blow hit her head, the next may have killed her, but it was only the third that removed her head. Monty Python or Fire Sign Theater or somebody did a skit on it. It's also pitiful that such a vain woman was further humiliated when her head was picked up and her wig came off, making her head get dropped and revealing she was almost bald. According to some sources anyhow.
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

Allhallowsday

The first stroke was certainly fatal, and the second failed to finish the job, hence the third stroke was a sawing motion...
You got all that dreadful story right. 
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Allhallowsday

True or false: 
ANNE BOLEYN's head came right off when the axe came down. 
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RCMerchant

"Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."

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indianasmith

Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 14, 2023, 12:29:20 AM
True or false: 
ANNE BOLEYN's head came right off when the axe came down. 

False.  She was beheaded by an expert swordsman, and no axe was involved.
"I shall smite you in the nostrils with a rod of iron, and wax your spleen with Efferdent!!"

Allhallowsday

Quote from: indianasmith on February 14, 2023, 06:29:36 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 14, 2023, 12:29:20 AM
True or false: 
ANNE BOLEYN's head came right off when the axe came down. 

False.  She was beheaded by an expert swordsman, and no axe was involved.

True. 

As a sign of deference, a sword was traditionally used executing royalty.  ELIZABETH I showed no such deference for her cousin MARY of Scots some years later. 
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Allhallowsday

True or false : 

JOHN LENNON predicted the manner in which he would die. 

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Rev. Powell

Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 14, 2023, 02:41:55 PM
True or false : 

JOHN LENNON predicted the manner in which he would die. 



False, John Lennon predicted he'd be crucified ("the way things are going...").
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ER

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There's a clip in the bio-doc Imagine of Lennon opening fan mail back in the day, maybe circa 1970, in which someone claimed Brian Epstein told him or her on a Ouija board that Lennon would be murdered in 1980. As I recall. I saw that when I was about nine or ten.

Ok, just found the clip on YouTube and it's less dramatic than I remembered and only speaks of an attempt to assassinate him. So I got a lot wrong.

Lennon did say he'd never make it to forty, and was almost right.
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

Allhallowsday

Actually, in a 1960s interview with many cameras present LENNON was asked how he thought he'd die.  
LENNON responded: "Some crazy with a gun..."  
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RCMerchant

True or False- I have eaten human flesh.
"Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."

Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

Allhallowsday

If you want to view paradise . . . simply look around and view it!