>So they carry you by the ears in your part of the world eh?<
Maybe they do, wherever it is. Something like that might be appropriate. Lugs (the kind attached to either side of a human head) can be put to various uses. In the town where I live miscreants are threatened with having their lugs nailed to the tron (public weigh beam in the market place). A proclamation is made by the Toun Crier (standing on the back of a horse) in the Mercat Place (this happens anually on the last Friday in July, the Common Riding day). The proclamation includes this warning about public behaviour at the Summer, or Lamb Fair:- ''.... a' land-loupers, and dub-scoupers, and gae-by-the-gate sweengers, that come here to breed hurdums or durdums, huliments or buliments, hagglements or bragglements, or to molest this public Fair,they shall be ta'en by order of the Bailie and the Toun Cooncil, and their lugs be nailed to the Tron wi' a twalpenny nail, and they shall sit doun on their bare knees and pray seeven times for the King and thrice for the Muckle Laird o' Ralton, and pay a groat tae mei, Jamie Ferguson, Bailie o' the aforesaid Manor, and I'll awa hame and hae a barly Bannock and a saut herring tae ma denner by way o' auld style.'' Bill To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
