From: Gary R Switzer (gswitzer@loop.com)
Date: Sat 06 Mar 1999 - 01:58:32 EET
>From: "Dougie Crawford" <dougiepunk@bigfoot.com>
>Subject: butchering herdmen
>>As the
>>blood drains away, the animal's spirit becomes concentrated in its
>>tail. Once the bleeding has stopped, the butcher uses the hoe to dig
>>a pit in the blood-soaked earth and cuts off its tail with a single
>>stroke of the axe. The tail is buried with a prayer to speed the
>>animal's spirit to Mother Erithra.
>Sorry to be awkward but where does the spirt of a herdman become
>concentrated?
Why, in their thumbs Dougie, where else? =)
Actually, I can't see the thrifty Praxians letting perfectly good blood go to
I wonder if there is a Gloranthan equivalent of trichinosis? Otherwise pork
Gary R Switzer
waste by letting it drain into the ground like that. I'm sure the Morokanth
have a saying something along the lines of "we use every part of the herdman
except the oink [grunt?]" that was the motto of Armour or one of the big
Midwestern meatpackers.
(both domesticated and wild), bear and herdman could be eaten rare or even raw
without danger.
Aero Hobbies
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