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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
Mom used to say "you'd b!tch if you were hung with a new rope".
Never quite figured out what she meant by that...
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Has been posted several times. Mom was surely a pistol. You remembered it.
REALITY, people with any brains were nice to the executioner. The professional hangman was a skilled tradesman. There were charts for required drop based on the person's weight and how athletic they were. Posters here might but, it was not wise to object to a new or old rope.