This is our Democratic-Controlled House at work.

[tombogan03884]

  How about armed insurrection ?
Hang the ba$tards and TAKE BACK AMERICA !!!!!

[twyacht]

Uh, keel-hauling is really, really a bad thing. Cruel and unusual would apply.,....

When a sailor was keelhauled, he would be stripped and tied so that he could not swim. Usually a weight was attached to his legs to pull him away from the ship. The sailor was attached to a rope which ran underwater from one side of the ship to the other, and he was rapidly pulled through the water. Assuming the sailor did not usually drown, he would severely injured by extremely sharp barnacles on the underside of the ship, known as the keel. Keelhauling would leave severe scars on the flesh of the sailor, serving as a constant reminder of the event.

But tar and feathering is still OK.

And Vote at the ballot box, before we vote from the rooftops.

[tombogan03884]

 I've heard they went side to side ACROSS the keel, but I have also heard they went bow to stern, actually dragging him the LENGTH of the keel 

[twyacht]

I've heard they went side to side ACROSS the keel, but I have also heard they went bow to stern, actually dragging him the LENGTH of the keel 

Believe it or not, the DUTCH sailors were the worst. circa mid-late 1500's.

Wasn't banned until 1853, by the Dutch,..the last holdouts.....

Funny, it was a a Dutchman that stopped the "underwear" bomber.    I candidate for keel-hauling or a one way ticket to his virgins.

[MikeBjerum]

Anybody remember the old movie Viking Queen and the "mare of steel?"

Tom ... You are the reason they are proposing rope control and registration 

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[tombogan03884]

 I have ALWAYS advocated the responsible use of ROPE 

[MikeBjerum]

I have ALWAYS advocated the responsible use of ROPE 

Rope doesn't kill people ... People with rope kill people 

tombogan, proud member of the NRopeA 

[MikeBjerum]

I was wrong on the movie.  It was The Long Ships.