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To: mdittmar; StoneColdGOP
"Demands"? From the country that invented - and perfected - the guillotine?

Give me a break.

5 posted on 12/12/2001 10:44:02 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day
""Demands"? From the country that invented - and perfected - the guillotine?"

Actually, at the time, the guillotine was considered a humanitarian invention--assuring decapitation with a single stroke. Before its inception, it wasn't uncommon for the executioner's stroke with ax or sword to go awry and only partially do the job.

166 posted on 12/13/2001 6:22:47 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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