rat king

[Matt]

I don't get it

they get their tails stuck together
so....?

I also don't get it. They get fused together in some way?

[Sarah]

Well, a woman can fuse to a toilet seat.

[kimota]

I guess rats, mice, squirrels, etc. tend to gather together and sleep up against each other when it's cold.  Somehow their tails get knotted together and a rat king is born.

[Spoony]

My favorite medieval punishment was tying a corpse to the back of an offender. The living tissue would start to rot with the dead tissue it was in contact with.

I hear you have to do this for a year before you can join the Bad Seeds.

[kimota]

Holy moley!!  Seriously??!

[Spoony]

Yeah. I think it was a punishment for theft.

I started to look up some credible sources online, but the search was getting a little stomach-turning. You'll have to take my word for it.

[kimota]

Yeah, I think I will just take your word for it, Spoony.  Pretty harsh for just theft. 

[Spoony]

I admit I may have the crime mixed up. But somewhere out there is scofflaw that merited a back-necrosis themed punishment. Bleh. Those guys were pretty creative.

I wonder when mass entertainment got to a caliber high enough to distract people from their Creative Maiming classes.

C