Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: DUMBGRUNT

Guess the driver is off the hook. But why not disassemble him anyway?


21 posted on 09/10/2019 3:28:10 PM PDT by cymbeline
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: cymbeline

Guess the driver is off the hook. But why not disassemble him anyway?

There was some early confusion about who was at the wheel ???

Drawn and quartered clearly end any confusion.

1782: David Tyrie, the last hanged, drawn, and quartered. On this date in 1782, a crowd contemporaries pegged at 100,000 mobbed the gruesome public execution of David Tyrie — the last man hanged, drawn, and quartered in British history.


22 posted on 09/10/2019 3:39:02 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson