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Sun, Aug 28, 11 at 0:44
| Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
C.P.Snow My machine will take off a head in a twinkling, and the victim will feel nothing but a refreshing coolness. We can not make too much haste, gentlemen, to allow the nation to take this advantage.
Ed. note: how did he know about the "refreshing coolness" ?
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Follow-Up Postings:
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| Wow! Lilo, what a quote!! -- the guillotine one, I mean. That's one process that has never consumed a lot of my thinking; a fact I'm glad for! "Refreshing coolness", indeed! |
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- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Sun, Aug 28, 11 at 18:36
| Take off their heads and let them have "Refreshing coolness". |
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- Posted by anneliese_32 6 (My Page) on Tue, Aug 30, 11 at 9:28
| That's kind of adding insult to injury. cooling indeed. |
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- Posted by endorphinjunkie z7bAlabama (My Page) on Tue, Aug 30, 11 at 16:43
| It was thought or argued that the guillotine would be more humane that hanging. Can't have the condemned suffering, now can we. Ah, the mental gymnastics that humans are capable of. |
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