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Mounted Heads

nr

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All the deer hunting pictures reminded me of this story but the topic doesn't quite fit under hunting! Or anywhere else for that matter:
"Sharecropping was big business in old England. If you were lucky enough to own a manor house with extensive landholdings, you needed workers to make it pay. So you gave them a bit of your land to farm and they would return a share of each crop as payment.

Problem was that sharecropping peasants weren’t always grateful for this often inequitable relationship. The lord of the manor didn’t want these workers to get any ideas about land redistribution, so he ruled this miniature kingdom with an iron fist. If someone broke the law on the estate, it was off with ther heads. To make an example of them the lord had the severed heads dipped in hot tar and impaled on a stake in some high-profile location.

Some British gardeners claim this is the reason that ball-shaped finials became so popular in garden design - inspired by this head-on-a-pike in front of the manor house. So when new homes were built, those wishing to emulate all that defined the noble English manor adopted these round accents in stone . Gruesome yes, but probably true."
 

Jinglebob

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Northern Rancher said:
They have those all over the lockout ranches in South Dakota lol.

Oh. Funny NR, I hadn't noticed any. But then, I guess I don't have any neighbors who locked out.

I'll bet they would love to have yours up there, Northern Rancher.

On second thought, nawww. They wouldn't want some guy as old as you with such a small rack. :wink:

Your just crabby at me cuz I didn't take any sides in your scrapping with Haymaker. :)
 

Northern Rancher

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Never saw your name mentioned any where in this thread at all there sunshine. I could care less about what side anybody takes quite frankly-the Padlock Gang seems to be a bit sensitive though for being such hardboiled old ranchhands. Nothing you can pitch that I can't catch lol.
 

Jinglebob

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Northern Rancher said:
Never saw your name mentioned any where in this thread at all there sunshine. I could care less about what side anybody takes quite frankly-the Padlock Gang seems to be a bit sensitive though for being such hardboiled old ranchhands. Nothing you can pitch that I can't catch lol.

OK. Here comes a big ol' fat spit ball.






How'd you like it?

:lol: :lol:
 

Jinglebob

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Northern Rancher said:
Never got to the plate better do some pushups lol.

Oh, it got to the plate alright. It just went by so fast, that you didn't see it. Better get them eyes checked, old feller. :wink:
 

Jinglebob

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nr said:
Boys, boys, BOYS! :roll:

You just be talkin' to someone else, cuz me and NR are men. :wink:

Real, hairy chested he-men. We even go outside when it gets cold out and around here, we don't consider it cold 'til it gets below 0. :wink:
 

nr

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Jinglebob said:
nr said:
Boys, boys, BOYS! :roll:

You just be talkin' to someone else, cuz me and NR are men. :wink:

Real, hairy chested he-men. We even go outside when it gets cold out and around here, we don't consider it cold 'til it gets below 0. :wink:
Must have been the spit-ball comment that threw me off. :p
 

Jinglebob

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nr said:
Jinglebob said:
nr said:
Boys, boys, BOYS! :roll:

You just be talkin' to someone else, cuz me and NR are men. :wink:

Real, hairy chested he-men. We even go outside when it gets cold out and around here, we don't consider it cold 'til it gets below 0. :wink:
Must have been the spit-ball comment that threw me off. :p

Don't you ever watch baseball? It's a type of pitch.

Maybe you were thinking of a spitwad.

Totally different thing.
 

nr

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We called them spitballs in school just like the baseball term which only the boys did. Brings back memories of cootie catchers and wombats. Everything that kept school interesting :lol: Plus the time Todd Trowbridge had a case of upset stomach and projectile vomited it seemed halfway across the room into the teacher's lap. Now THAT was a memorable sight from gradeschool! :D
 
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