Blog catch-up and morbid facts
Melia got on MSN to say she'd received my earlier phone message about not being able to make it out today. Eh, these things happen... she also emailed everyone to ask whether this gorging was lunch or dinner. Unfortunately for the three of them, it's dinner! Maybe Phil, Angus, and Melia can make it out next time! Hey, I have a phone call from Andrea on my Caller ID... maybe I'll call her back later. Should also call the dentist and make an appointment soonish. Man, this Anna Nicole Smith story is bizarre and interesting...
Caught up on blogs: Dawn was so jet-lagged that she slept till 7 on Sunday - too bad she didn't get a chance to see Vivian that day! At least she had some lasagna a few days later, and was excited about Eni getting back from Hong Kong / Beijing too! I bet they both missed Vancouver. Spoz apparently has a fever and such, but still managed to get his art together for the BIG DAY OUT with his friends. Hahaha, gotta love the pictures! Then I finally checked out Randal's blog: all I gotta say is TALKING SMILIES MUST DIE! (banner ads...) He has stuff about priests and singleness... and he also used the word "ho" in an online posting in the context of a story, which somehow amuses me - kinda like the hypothetical breastfeeding question!
Then there's the one about knowledge of love in Japan and a true crime story... I gotta see what that is, except the given description doesn't say much! (can't even do a proper Google search for it) He has stuff about Chinese churches in Vancouver... I dunno about the "Chinese restaurant into church" idea, but Shanghai Wind is great for a wedding banquet, hehe! He's also been reading a book about 70 great Christians, which sounds like interesting reading material. Given all this, I believe that certain people were joking around about a certain post last night, so I am going to have to kill them for that. As for those pictures... well, at least THOSE exist! Hmph.
By the way, I do NOT write the Morbid Facts newsletters. You can get them here, if you wish. With that said, here is today's edition before I get back to the journal changeover stuff:
Today's Dangling Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
On 1 October 1946, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg delivered its verdicts, after 216 court sessions. Of the original twenty-four Nazi defendants, twelve (including Martin Bormann, tried in absentia) were sentenced to death by hanging.
Three black-painted wooden scaffolds stood inside the gymnasium, a room approximately 33 feet wide by 80 feet long with plaster walls in which cracks showed. The gymnasium had been used only three days before by the American security guards for a basketball game. Two gallows were used alternately. The third was a spare for use if needed. The men were hanged one at a time, but to get the executions over with quickly, the military police would bring in the man while the prisoner who preceded him still was dangling at the end of the rope.
The ten once-great men in Hitler's Reich that was to have lasted for a thousand years walked up thirteen wooden steps to a platform eight feet high which also was eight square feet. Ropes were suspended from a crossbeam supported on two posts. A new one was used for each man.
When the trap was sprung, the victim dropped from sight in the interior of the scaffolding. The bottom of it was boarded up with wood on three sides and shielded by a dark canvas curtain on the fourth, so that no one saw the death struggles of the men dangling with broken necks.
Culled from: The Execution of Nazi War Criminals
Generously submitted by: Eric
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Alas, no camera phones were available to videotape these proceedings. Such primitive times...
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Morbid Mirth Du Jour!
Here's a fun-sounding video game: Super Columbine Massacre!!
Thanks to Steve O. for the link.
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Ghastly!
Here's another of those grim websites that contain photographs of unidentified bodies. In this case, from the province of Ontario.
Thanks to Evonne for the link.
Caught up on blogs: Dawn was so jet-lagged that she slept till 7 on Sunday - too bad she didn't get a chance to see Vivian that day! At least she had some lasagna a few days later, and was excited about Eni getting back from Hong Kong / Beijing too! I bet they both missed Vancouver. Spoz apparently has a fever and such, but still managed to get his art together for the BIG DAY OUT with his friends. Hahaha, gotta love the pictures! Then I finally checked out Randal's blog: all I gotta say is TALKING SMILIES MUST DIE! (banner ads...) He has stuff about priests and singleness... and he also used the word "ho" in an online posting in the context of a story, which somehow amuses me - kinda like the hypothetical breastfeeding question!
Then there's the one about knowledge of love in Japan and a true crime story... I gotta see what that is, except the given description doesn't say much! (can't even do a proper Google search for it) He has stuff about Chinese churches in Vancouver... I dunno about the "Chinese restaurant into church" idea, but Shanghai Wind is great for a wedding banquet, hehe! He's also been reading a book about 70 great Christians, which sounds like interesting reading material. Given all this, I believe that certain people were joking around about a certain post last night, so I am going to have to kill them for that. As for those pictures... well, at least THOSE exist! Hmph.
By the way, I do NOT write the Morbid Facts newsletters. You can get them here, if you wish. With that said, here is today's edition before I get back to the journal changeover stuff:
Today's Dangling Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
On 1 October 1946, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg delivered its verdicts, after 216 court sessions. Of the original twenty-four Nazi defendants, twelve (including Martin Bormann, tried in absentia) were sentenced to death by hanging.
Three black-painted wooden scaffolds stood inside the gymnasium, a room approximately 33 feet wide by 80 feet long with plaster walls in which cracks showed. The gymnasium had been used only three days before by the American security guards for a basketball game. Two gallows were used alternately. The third was a spare for use if needed. The men were hanged one at a time, but to get the executions over with quickly, the military police would bring in the man while the prisoner who preceded him still was dangling at the end of the rope.
The ten once-great men in Hitler's Reich that was to have lasted for a thousand years walked up thirteen wooden steps to a platform eight feet high which also was eight square feet. Ropes were suspended from a crossbeam supported on two posts. A new one was used for each man.
When the trap was sprung, the victim dropped from sight in the interior of the scaffolding. The bottom of it was boarded up with wood on three sides and shielded by a dark canvas curtain on the fourth, so that no one saw the death struggles of the men dangling with broken necks.
Culled from: The Execution of Nazi War Criminals
Generously submitted by: Eric
**********************************************************************
Alas, no camera phones were available to videotape these proceedings. Such primitive times...
*******
Morbid Mirth Du Jour!
Here's a fun-sounding video game: Super Columbine Massacre!!
Thanks to Steve O. for the link.
*******
Ghastly!
Here's another of those grim websites that contain photographs of unidentified bodies. In this case, from the province of Ontario.
Thanks to Evonne for the link.
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