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To: Zakeet

I know how to cheer her up!

Book her for an appearance on Dancing With The Stars!

Dancing the Tyburn Jig!


9 posted on 12/15/2016 7:45:34 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring
Dancing the Tyburn Jig!

As good as our fellow FReepers may be in their historical knowledge, I feel that this should be elucidated a bit! The Tyburn Jig was what you did if you were hung on the Tyburn Gallows, located outside of London (at the time). The Tyburn Gallows were a permanent gallows from the early 1500s to the mid 1700s and was where non-aristocrats and murdering aristocrats found their dangling ends. The field there was also where public firing squad executions were done for military capital crimes.

A notable non-execution performed there was the beheading of the 3 year gone corpse of Oliver Cromwell after the restoration of the Monarchy and Charles II. On 30 January 1661, the body of the former Lord Protector of the English Commonwealth, having been disinterred from Westminster Abbey, was hung in chains and then beheaded.

That location is now near where the "Marble Arch" and Hyde Park are located, well inside Metropolitan London.

50 posted on 12/15/2016 8:16:42 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: DuncanWaring

Hanging that Witch would please many people. Seeing her age in misery and knowing that her chance is GONE is a better punishment.


73 posted on 12/15/2016 1:14:43 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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