March 07, 2023, 08:35 AM
Pipe SmokerLizzie Borden took an axe…
Lizzie Borden took an axe,
And gave her mother forty whacks,
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
“Actually, the Bordens received only 29 whacks, not the 81 suggested by the famous ditty, but the popularity of the above poem is a testament to the public’s fascination with the 1893 murder trial of Lizzie Borden. The source of that fascination might lie in the almost unimaginably brutal nature of the crime–given the sex, background, and age of the defendant–or in the jury’s acquittal of Lizzie in the face of prosecution evidence that most historians today find compelling. …”
Much more in this article:
https://dirkdeklein.net/2017/0...-lizzy-borden-trial/March 07, 2023, 08:47 AM
cslingerI mean once we cross like 6 or 8 good whacks with an axe aren’t we really splitting hairs at that point?
March 07, 2023, 08:51 AM
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March 07, 2023, 09:13 AM
PCWyomingquote:
Originally posted by CPD SIG:
Ladies and Gentlemen, please tip your bartenders and waitresses well, cslingers next show is at noon!
I don't know, all he did was axed the question...........
PC
March 07, 2023, 09:34 AM
architectquote:
Originally posted by cslinger:
I mean once we cross like 6 or 8 good whacks with an axe aren’t we really splitting hairs at that point?

I don't think that the axe would be sharp enough to do that after a few whacks, unless GrumpyBiker (or SeattleEdge) had sharpened it anyway.