Good point Greg! I'll amend it:Har! I still don't believe he was actually "born".
I think he just sort of oozed into being and took on form...
Ha(i)ppy Birthday, Haggis.
Happy crawled out of the grave day, Haggis!
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Question of the day: Wouldn't it be chilly with no skin on? 
It's not a picture of someone skinless, btw.
I'm not that freaky. 
At least not in a public forum....
It's not a picture of someone skinless, btw.
I'm not that freaky. At least not in a public forum....
I missed the undead doggie's birthday??
Well, shucks. I mean, you only turn 438 once, right Haggis?
Well, shucks. I mean, you only turn 438 once, right Haggis?
Question of the day: Wouldn't it be chilly with no skin on?
Doesn't that depend on how insulating skin is? How much heat does it really retain for us?
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Yeah. But I would think of it like a windbreaker.Doesn't that depend on how insulating skin is? How much heat does it really retain for us?
Possibly. But aren't all those little capillaries designed to help cool us down? Without them, how much heat would we retain? I'm really curious now as to how much our skin does in terms of helping us regulate our temperature.
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I heard there was a "how to burn a whale carcass" discussion here the other day. (Here as in AW, not in the Hounds specifically.)
This kind of thing is why I like hanging with writers.
This kind of thing is why I like hanging with writers.
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Yes. It's nice to talk about weird things in the company of people who also enjoy talking about weird things. As opposed to bringing them up with non writers and getting the response: 
As opposed to bringing them up with non writers and getting the response:
From time to time, I do things like that just to get that kind of response.
Because it's fun.
Because it's fun.
I heard there was a "how to burn a whale carcass" discussion here the other day. (Here as in AW, not in the Hounds specifically.)
This kind of thing is why I like hanging with writers.
Ha ha.
Funny thing, I know someone who found out the hard way, trying to burn a sea lion carcass doesn't really work. Not even with accelerates.
Hmmm, I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't feel much of anything with your skin removed as the pain receptors would all be gone or fried. At best, I'm thinking that there might be a continual agonizing burning sensation due to the severed nerves.
Of course, I'd rub salt on the exposed flesh in a series of, um, experiments designed to measure the amount of pain the recipient could endure without passing out or dying of shock.
Dipping them in brine might also work and could make for a tasty recipe (400-clove garlic and brine long pork anyone?).
Of course, I'd rub salt on the exposed flesh in a series of, um, experiments designed to measure the amount of pain the recipient could endure without passing out or dying of shock.
Dipping them in brine might also work and could make for a tasty recipe (400-clove garlic and brine long pork anyone?).
There was an interesting book by a Japanese author in which he discussed someone being flayed alive. Something about a night bird, I think. No, not the McCallam one. I'll see if I can dig up the info on it.Hmmm, I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't feel much of anything with your skin removed as the pain receptors would all be gone or fried. At best, I'm thinking that there might be a continual agonizing burning sensation due to the severed nerves.
Of course, I'd rub salt on the exposed flesh in a series of, um, experiments designed to measure the amount of pain the recipient could endure without passing out or dying of shock.
Dipping them in brine might also work and could make for a tasty recipe (400-clove garlic and brine long pork anyone?).
Eta:
The Wind-up Bird Chronicles. Odd book with some very interesting parts to it.
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I can't tell if that's a recommendation or not.
It sort of was and sort of wasn't.
I had it in audiobook and it went on and on and on....
And much of it was pretty bizarre.
And It was mostly literary, which for me is sometimes okay and sometimes not.
Bug the Mongolian flaying scene was cool. That is, if you're into Mongolian flaying scenes.
Curious what makes it Mongolian.
Is there a difference in different cultures? Such as a Brazilian flaying would be something completely different?
Is there a difference in different cultures? Such as a Brazilian flaying would be something completely different?
Curious what makes it Mongolian.
Is there a difference in different cultures? Such as a Brazilian flaying would be something completely different?
Mongolian troops flayed a Japanese officer during the Japanese takeover of Mongolia in, I think, the 1930s. It's fiction, of course, but still.
That plus the Brazillians use wax in their flayings.
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