Sunday, March 05, 2006

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as i dwelled in my utter state of boredom here, one that could be compared to the widely celebrated activity of bidwatching, i rememberd my day visiting the castle as a boy. and we were taken up to mary queen of scots room. and i always will remember seeing these scratch marks that literally scratched chunks of wood out of this banister and left nails marks. and i asked my teacher and she replied they are the marks mary queen of scots left as she was being brought down to be executed. and it shivered me timbers. but oh if the tale she told was true then i decided to find out about this queens death and i came across a much more funny story to be honest. and its not really funny. its just one of those things that you just wanna go "oooohhhh!! daaaaym!!!". heres the story, enjoy.

Mary Queen of Scots had a grisly time of it. She paid the executioner a purse of gold to do a good job. She may have wanted her money back! After taking off her black dress to reveal a red petticoat he blindfolded her and knelt her down with her head on the block. The axe swung down - and missed!
Well, it didn't exactly miss. He nicked the side of her neck and Mary cried out. The second chop went through the back of the neck but not all the way through. He returned to use the axe as a saw and finish the job.
But that still wasn't the end of the gruesome story. The executioner had the task of picking up the severed head and showing it to the assembled throng. Sadly, no one had told the executioner that Mary wore a wig. When he grabbed her by the hair, the head fell out of the wig and bounced across the hall.

now if you agree with me, daaaym that is one way to go to the next life! thank god they invented the lethal injection.

James Barr at 5:51 PM

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