Jeff wrote: Does anyone >know if people executed by guillotine ever got up and ran around? If >more information is available on this, I probably would use this as >another (somewhat morbid) example in my courses of widely believed >claims that are not true (or, at least, that have qualifications). > >Jeff > It was reported that Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) told a friend to watch him because he was going to blink his eyes (I think it was) after his head was cut off, and that he blinked them -- I think -- seven times. This, except for his dates of the top of my head which hasn't been chopped off lately. I know of no cases of the body running around. Gilbert & Sullivan in _The Mikado_ has the Lord High Executioner sing of a head that smiled three times at him. Al Cone Jamestown College North Dakota who is struggling with a new and grossly inferior email program. > >-- >Jeffry P. Ricker, Ph.D. Office Phone: (602) 423-6213 >9000 E. Chaparral Rd. FAX Number: (602) 423-6298 >Psychology Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Scottsdale Community College >Scottsdale, AZ 85250 > >"For every problem, there is a solution that is neat, simple, and >wrong." H. L. Mencken
