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I recently stumbled across a dictionary full of intriguing terms. Without googling, does anybody want to take a guess at why a "barberchair" would be dangerous?
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How about Sweeney Todd, barber purveyor of meat pies with fingernails in them?
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or from one of the other tasks often asigned to barbers-- "bleeding" or opening a vein as a medical treatment. (the red and white striped pole associated with barbers are said to represent a bleeding arm wrapped in gauze. )
barber's were an "alternative medical treatment"--when medical care seemed to be getting last right from the local priest.
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Well, my first reaction is that they look somewhat like electric chairs, but. Does it have something to do with the old-time razors that could easily cut a throat?
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Strictly speaking, in none of these examples is the barberchair itself fatal. I would suspect that the true answer would have something to do with the abilities of the chair to tip and rise.
It was Mrs. Lovett who purveyed the meat pies; Mr. Todd merely supplied her with the filling.
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I immediately thought of MP's "lumberjack sketch", but then I was sorely disappointed when I didn't get the compleat 14-DVD set of Flying Circus for Christmas.
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Dear Faldage: Had I not complied with the injunction not to google, I could have given Mrs. Lovett her due.
I read somewhere that Sweeney Todd had several real life counterparts.
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You've walked along the wrong path. tsuwm has dropped a hint.
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Dear Dr. Bill
I din't look up nuthin bout no barberchairs. Jus oney the name of the purveyress of the meat pies. I knew it wern't no Sweeney Todd him what oney supplied the meat.
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Dear Faldage:Apparently you are not a Monty Python fan either.
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