Nutty, you forgot to mention how excruciatingly painful it was. That getting nails through your hands was the least of it.
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DavidS - Oct 06, 2003 6:59:55 am PDT #5116 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DXMachina - Oct 06, 2003 7:03:19 am PDT #5117 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
so Jesus and his crucified friends got the quickie treatment and died in about 3 hours.
Right, they broke the legs of the two criminals, but they stabbed Jesus, instead.
You know the fun part? The doctors in the Renaissance who experimented with corpses to figure out how crucifixion worked. (Like, where the nails would go.)
IIRC, though, most crucifixion victims had their arms and legs tied to the cross. Nails were reserved for special cases.
askye - Oct 06, 2003 8:11:48 am PDT #5118 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
I thought the nails went through the wrists, through the bones, rather than the hands becuase couldn't take the weight of the body but the wrists could.
DXMachina - Oct 06, 2003 8:19:26 am PDT #5119 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
That's the way I've heard it, too, between the radius and the ulna.
Nutty - Oct 06, 2003 8:21:53 am PDT #5120 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Right. Askye's point is what the experimenters had to find out, in the Renaissance. Or later? Anyway, some doctor in France hung dead arms from a nail in his door lintel until he figured out a way that would actually hang for 3 hours. The ones with nails through the hands just slithered out between the tendons and bones and the arm flopped off after a few minutes.
Michele T. - Oct 06, 2003 8:46:03 am PDT #5121 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
On-topic: any word on how the board is doing post-premiere?
Jon B. - Oct 06, 2003 9:28:04 am PDT #5122 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
We're still hanging on, Michele.
(sorry)
Connie Neil - Oct 06, 2003 5:35:38 pm PDT #5123 of 10000
brillig
Just such a freakin' educational place. Everywhere else, people look at you funny for having these conversations.
§ ita § - Oct 06, 2003 6:56:39 pm PDT #5124 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kat, you have 2728 unarchived posts. You're not in the top 20. Here's the top users table:
user_name totals ita11697 P.M. Marcontell10023 Steph L.7093 deborah grabien6055 Sean K6018 Jess PMoon5799 DavidS5733 Trudy Booth5690 Elena5588 Cindy5391 Aimée5327 Betsy HP5303 connie neil5208 DXMachina5094 erikaj4842 Perkins4201 Theodosia4028 Jesse3835 Jon B.3626 Deena3450
That's all for now -- I don't want to choke the system from the back end.
Kat - Oct 06, 2003 6:58:06 pm PDT #5125 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
You, my friend, are a goddess! I'm not even in the top 20 anymore! This is happy making. It means I must post less. Downside it also means I'm much busier.