So the nipples would be cut off so that no one could show submission to that person henceforth?

So goes the theory. Iron Age bog bodies in Europe often have various different signs of 'sacrifice', usually three different methods of death (say, throat slit, bludgeoning, stabbed) and the nipple removal would be another level of sacrifice, giving up any chance of kingship in this or another life. It's especially likely because it often seems that very high status people, possibly even people of royal blood, were those being sacrificed.

But, y'know, build a time machine and we'll probably figure out they were just super-kinky.

That is some killer trivia. Well-deserved win!

Hey, many congrats to talented people! Congrats on the great review, Barb. Fantastic news on the interview, Shir. And nice one, Jars, archaeological trivia queen.

Mom~ma, Barb. And congrats on that great review!

Barb, that is a fantastic review! Woo! And Shir, I think it's so exciting that Hollaback is already getting such great attention.

Meanwhile, lots of ~ma to Raq's friend and Cash's teammate. Edit: and to Barb's mom too!

Stormy day here, so I ran home at lunchtime to check on the cats and make sure no windows were open. Turns out there's a leak in our roof. Anyone wanna place bets on how long it takes for our landlord to fix it? I will remind you that this is the same guy who still hasn't, after more than a year, made good on his promises to replace our flimsy front door, scrape the paint off our windows, or fix our leaky faucet. (Okay, for the faucet it's been maybe just six months.)

~ma for your mom, Barb. I'm glad she came out of it way better than the car did.

Congrats on the good review, too!

~ma for your mom, Barb. And congrats on the review! Which I forgot to say earlier, because I'm a bad person.

Oh, Barb, mom~ma.

And yay for the good review! (I think I forgot to say it earlier).

I'm loving Time of the Month Tiger.

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Thanks for the ~ma, y'all. I talked to Mom briefly-- she's in the ER waiting to go back for x-rays still. She sounded pretty out of it, because they gave her happy making drugs, but was with it enough to say the accelerator on her car got stuck-- I'm trying to google and see if this is a known problem for her car.

We'll see. Hopefully, Mom's not too terribly bad off other than residual soreness.

And in other news, because today is all about the roller-coaster rides, I just found out that STARS is going to be the December Book of the Month for the Latina Book Club. [link] It's also being reviewed on that site this coming Monday and I suspect, it's going to be another good one. I just keep crossing my fingers and lighting candles that they all continue to be good reviews. I could sure use them!