[Moshe Zadka] > He might be confusing whips with other forms of self-torture, though. > In Shi'ik Islam (mistakenly considered "fanatic Islam", but if you > here about fanatics, it's usually Shi'is), they have a ritual of > cutting the forehead with a razor (only lightly breaking the skin, > however) -- it's not as much for the pain, as it is for the visual > effect of blood all over the face, I believe. This is certainly more > colourful then whipping! Indeed it is, and the same scientific technique has been employed by professional wrestlers toward the same end for at least 50 years: a good "blade job" on the forehead eventually covers the whole face with blood, due to a slow but steady drip from this reluctant-to-clot but vein-poor area. Then an occassional light scraping "punch" from your opponent can keep it flowing indefinitely. I haven't found it nearly as effective in programming as in scaring away unwanted strangers. But it can be dangerous: my childhood hero, Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon, bladed himself once in a particularly hectic match, but missed the forehead and sliced into a temple instead. The blood *spurted* out of his head, in time with his heartbeat, at least a foot, and clearly visible from the cheap seats. Today they'd stop the show, but not then! His quick-thinking opponent put him in a headlock, and held it for minutes, applying direct pressure to the cut until it clotted. The Mad Dog was gloriously bloodied, and the crowd whipped into a state of ecstatic frenzy. Like I said, "toward the same end"! That was the day I decided to become a professional wrestler. in-most-respects-programming-python's-the-same-thing-ly y'rs - tim
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