5 for the splatter, and five more because it's good to know that doctorlegua is finding work these days.

e-cigarettes becoming popular after e-sex. :)

Actually, it was meant to take the guesswork and human error out of beheadings, as well as providing an egalitarian approach to them. Prior to its institution, if you were poor and a heinous criminal, you got your head lopped off with an axe. If you were rich and couldn't get away with your crimes anymore, you got beheaded with a big fancy sword; it was just one more way the haves set themselves apart from have-nots (being that swords were traditionally just more expensive to craft, and axes where always seen as either mere tools, or the weaponry of the lowborn and savages, but I digress). Either way, there was always the gruesome chance that the headsman might not be able to do the job in one swing.

ADDITIONAL FUN FACT: when Guillot first drafted up plans for the murder machine that would bear his name into infamy, it sported a crescent blade like an axe. It was actually Louis XVI, himself something of a machinist, who suggested using a beveled blade instead, to better distribute the force of the drop and slice through the neck cleanly.

Probably cover the machine in naked people.

I didn't know you were such a fan of mardi gras, MD.

Personally, I love the dawning shock in the warden's voice at the end of his soundbyte.

I am actually a stupendously friendly and likeable drunk that gets along wonderfully with strangers.

If this were portal of alcoholism you'd all think memedumpster died.

This reminded me of when I first saw one of the BowFlex robot sorters. I immediately thought how its amazing speed would make being disassembled by one while alive and screaming all the more horrible.