Charles Krause wrote:
> 
> 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:-)
> >
> 
> 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
> 
> :)

  It is also considered bad form to be seen trying to saw your way
through a victims body parts with a sword. One swell foop is the
prefered method choosen by professionals everywhere.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:10:18 -0600, "Charles Krause"
<osi### [at] cheerfulcom> wrote:

>
>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:-)
>>
>
>
>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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Presumably the secret wig wearers whould have been
found out in what should have been their hour of
glory and honour (having died for the Emperor).

Steve

Jerry Anning wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:10:18 -0600, "Charles Krause"
> <osi### [at] cheerfulcom> wrote:
> 
> >
> >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:-)
> >>
> >
> >
> >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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