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On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:10:18 -0600, "Charles Krause"
<osi### [at] cheerful com> wrote:
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>Thomas Lake wrote in message <370B317C.F62CF3DA@home.com>...
>>Boy doesn't it just put a real crimp in your day when sword doesn't come
>out of
>>your victim cleanly:-)
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>Yeah - that's why the steretypical 'killing stroke' with a Katana (and NOT
>because of HIGHLANDER, thankyouverymuch, it has historical basis) is to just
>lop off the head with a single stroke :P
That, and so you could carry the head off on the end of a knife and
put it in a box for display. Samurai used to spend hours doing their
hair before a battle so that their head would look good if a foe thus
enshrined it.
Jerry Anning
clem "at" dhol "dot" com
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