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I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV’s while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’ Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot - I don’t want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say, ‘I’m a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!’ So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, ‘I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ — Howard Beale in Network

Crucifixion in Vogue Again

March 26th, 2006 by Funky Dung

NISUS WETTUS: Next. Crucifixion?
PRISONER #1: Yes.
NISUS: Good. Out of the door. Line on the left. One cross each. Next. Crucifixion?
PRISONER #2: Yes.
NISUS: Good. Out of the door. Line on the left. One cross each. Next. Crucifixion?
MR. CHEEKY: Ah, no. Freedom.
JAILER: Hmm?
NISUS: What?
MR. CHEEKY: Eh, freedom for me. They said I hadn't done anything, so I could go free and live on an island somewhere.
NISUS: Oh. Oh, well, that's jolly good. Well, off you go, then.
MR. CHEEKY: Naa, I'm only pulling your leg. It's crucifixion, really.
NISUS: Oh, ho ho.
MR. CHEEKY: Heh heh heh hehh.
NISUS: I see. Uh, very good. Very good. Well, out of the door. One—
MR. CHEEKY: Yeah. I know the way. Out of the door.
NISUS: Line on—
MR. CHEEKY: One cross each. Line on the left.
NISUS: Line on the left.
MR. CHEEKY: Heh heh.
NISUS: Yes. Thank you. Crucifixion?
PRISONER #4: Yes.
NISUS: Good.

From BoingBoing:

"Players who misbehave in the Roman online role-playing game Roma Victor will be punished by having their characters crucified and displayed in public spaces for other players to mock and throw things at….Crucifixion is to be used as a form of player 'ban' within the virtual world of Roma Victor, with the length of the ban reflecting the severity of the punishment."

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Jerry wrote:

Being rather sick, I did like that part from the Life of Brian, but I found the game itself crossed a line.
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Posted 27 Mar 2006 at 10:20 am ¶
Peter wrote:

In the seventh chapter of her book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Mary Roach discusses Frederick Zugibe, a medical examiner for Rockland County, New York, "who spends his spare time researching the Crucifixion." Here is one of the most interesting passages:

Zugibe constructed a cross, which has stood—with the exception of several days during 2001 when it was out for repairs (warped stipes)—in his garage in suburban New York for some forty years. Rather than crucifying corpses [as previous researcher Pierre Barbet had done], Zugibe uses live volunteers, hundreds in all. For his first study, he recruited just shy of one hundred volunteers from a local religious group, the Third Order of St. Francis. How much do you have to pay a research subject to be crucified? Nothing. "They would have paid me," says Zugibe. "Everyone wanted to go up and see what it felt like." Granted, Zugibe was using leather straps, not nails. (Over the years, Zugibe has occasionally received calls from volunteers seeking the real deal. "Would you believe? A girl called me and wanted me to actually nail her. . . .")

That's from pages 161 and 162 of the paperback edition, in case anyone cares to read the book, the rest of which is also fascinating. Roach has subsequently written another book called Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, which I have not yet read.
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Posted 27 Mar 2006 at 3:42 pm ¶
Jerry wrote:

I've heard a lot of good things about that book–I really should look it up…
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Posted 28 Mar 2006 at 10:01 am ¶
Trotski wrote:

So, when you are "banned" to the cross, does your character get to ponder the bright side of virtual life? Sellin' orphaned footwear on E-Bay…
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Posted 28 Mar 2006 at 1:12 pm ¶
Funky Dung wrote:

Welcome back to the comboxes, Trotski.
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Posted 30 Mar 2006 at 11:53 am ¶

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