I'm (half) watching a thing on the History channel about the history of punishment, and they just said that somebody (the Romans, I think) used to execute condemned criminals by throwing them in a river tied in a sack. With an ape, a dog, and a snake in the sack, too, so that the animals' panciked attempts to escape imminent drowning also sped the condemned to their doom.

WTF?????????????

I'm (half) watching a thing on the History channel about the history of punishment, and they just said that somebody (the Romans, I think) used to execute condemned criminals by throwing them in a river tied in a sack. With an ape, a dog, and a snake in the sack, too, so that the animals' panciked attempts to escape imminent drowning also sped the condemned to their doom.

Yeah, I'd read something about being tied in a sack with a tiger and thrown into the Tiber. The Romans were ruthless--but effecient.

The Romans were ruthless--but effecient.

Throwing criminals and animals tied into sacks in the river as a form of execution strikes me as inefficient in a world where you can just run them through with a sword.

Creative as all getout, but inefficient.

Hello from Dallas. I arrived here at 9:30 this morning. I slept the whole plane trip. Hopefully I didn't snore! Worked a whole bunch now I am ready to take a dip in the pool or a shower to wake up.

The arrangements that need to be made to travel away from 2 kids and 3 pets is just too much. It was fine when I could get a relative to stay with them, but it didn't work out this time. Too much effort.

"You shove a living snake up his ass!"

"Ooo, creative."

Exactly what I was thinking, ND.

If you have an overpopulation of apes, dogs, and snakes, it's efficient.

In the South, there's rarely the opportunity to avoid through drink. We had dreadful sweet pink champagne for a toast, and that was it.

Oh, man, that's just sad! Weddings should be drink-ably avoid-able!

My entire body feels like someone beat the crap out of me, or something. This MAY have to do with the fact that I was on my feet for rehearsal from about 10AM til 5pm, and then for the show from 7pm til midnight...and then danced until 3AM...and then got up for brunch this morning real early....But OMG, good times. Though the moment of "OMG everyone I've slept with in the past several years is within five feet of me" was veyr very odd. I took a nap after brunch, but that just made my tummy unhappy, it did not seem to help the "my brain has secretly been replaced with a sack of sand" feeling...

Also, have to say I think they put osmething in the water in Canada, they're all so hot! And in Vancouver, they put extra "really amazing dancer" stuff in the water. Cause damn.

don't understand the economic forces that make a mortgage payment significantly higher than rent on a similar property, but it seems to be happening around here

Here in DC as well. Partly that some of the people renting out bought their houses a whiel back, so they can afford to charge less rent. And partly that if you buy, you can expect tax breaks and shit, and hope for equity...

highly recommend working in a mostly Latino school. The food for class parties is copious and delicious, everyone dances at parties, and tequila cures depression, ennui and the common cold!

Sounds like fun!

she only works one day a month, and I've never met her, but she's done that one day a month for 15 years.

How do I get a job where I only work one day a month? WTF?

she only works one day a month, and I've never met her, but she's done that one day a month for 15 years.

So she's had 180 days of work over 15 years. No wonder you've never met her.

somebody (the Romans, I think) used to execute condemned criminals by throwing them in a river tied in a sack. With an ape, a dog, and a snake in the sack, too, so that the animals' panciked attempts to escape imminent drowning also sped the condemned to their doom.

Right, that was for patricides, I think. Slaves got strangled, citizens got killed with a sword unless their crimes were so terrible that they needed special treatment. Foreigners could be crucified or whatever.

I have done no laundry, but I had a nice lunch with my folks and chatted with my brother, who is fine but had to listen to gunfire all night, poor noodle.