On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 22:48:49 -0500, rhys wrote:


Are you sure they didn't mean to say "boom gallow" ?

.... in English the term is usually plural, as in "boom
gallows", the gallows being the device from which people were once
strangled after the conclusion of criminal proceedings.
///
R.

Strangling is one end point of a gallows: the other is decapitation.

The preferred (I pondered using "humane") setting for the gallows
is to disconnect the central nervous system, while leaving the head
connected to the body.

Strangling is slow, the other options are fast, or fast and messy.

[One gets to consider the merits of various execution methods
if one ever used live frogs in undergraduate biology. Madame
Guillotine has her advocates....]

Brian Whatcott Altus OK