tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069432629974606542.post3804367282405574426..comments2023-04-29T04:48:18.973-07:00Comments on Theodosia and the Pirates: Drawing Hanged Men and Other Forbidden ThingsAya Katzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12339668413030878426noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069432629974606542.post-1258148454788574382014-05-19T12:13:59.443-07:002014-05-19T12:13:59.443-07:00Yes, I agree, Kathy, It is hard to see any of this...Yes, I agree, Kathy, It is hard to see any of this ending well for us as a society. Aya Katzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339668413030878426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069432629974606542.post-3832127984928772952014-05-19T07:42:28.666-07:002014-05-19T07:42:28.666-07:00I think our society is becoming so hyper-sensitive...I think our society is becoming so hyper-sensitive to anything related to violence that it has gone beyond common sense into the realm of idiocy. I don't understand the catalyst for it - school shootings perhaps and the resulting stupid regulations that the schools developed afterwards. Another good example of bad laws being written at the height of emotion and by people who just want to "do something" to make themselves *feel* better. <br />When will it stop? I'm afraid the answer to that is never. Some people are trying to enact every law possible to keep us 100% safe and that is just impossible. Given the recent history of the attempts to make it socially unacceptable to say certain words (ie, "retarded"), pretty soon, we won't even be able to say "hanged man", or execution, etc. <br />It's ridiculous. We're becoming a nation of Eloy - as in the movie "The Time Machine", and we'll be eaten alive by the Morlocks. Funny that was written in 1895, yet as in Ayn Rand's novels, it's all coming true today. Nikkis Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04900207220789667368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069432629974606542.post-58448392815288107962014-05-17T09:37:34.450-07:002014-05-17T09:37:34.450-07:00Yes, they played that game when I was in school, t...Yes, they played that game when I was in school, too. I wonder if it's forbidden now!Aya Katzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339668413030878426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069432629974606542.post-9258513280006741172014-05-17T08:45:14.238-07:002014-05-17T08:45:14.238-07:00When I was in elementary school, a lot of the chil...When I was in elementary school, a lot of the children played "Hanged Man" as a guessing game. The leader would draw some blank lines to represent the letters in a word for the game, and the players would each offer a possible letter to answer the word puzzle. Each wrong answer caused a line to be drawn in the diagram representing the hanged man: first the scaffold, then the legs, then the body, then each arm, and finally the round head at the top of the scaffold. If the game got to the head and completed the "hanged man," the leader of the game won.Ozarklorianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09348265376584155745noreply@blogger.com