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To: Gut Trader who wrote (236841)	4/22/2003 11:25:10 AM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

dick could only dream of having that much hair... hey, i think i found why haim defends The Impaler! Dracule was a (sort of) hero in Romania because he made the streets so "safe" that you could leave a purse in the middle of the road and no one would pick it up. Unfaithful wives and promiscuous women were punished by Dracule by cutting off their sex organs, skinning them alive and exposing them in public with their skin hanging from a nearby pole Dracule is famous also for cutting off limbs, strangling, blinding, boiling and burning his victims Then there is a story that when Vlad was a boy he mutilated and impaled small birds (viz Renfield in Dracula) Impalement victim had legs pulled by horses onto a stake ... which was rounded at the end and oiled so as NOT to cause immediate death Dracula may or may not have been a cannibal (ie werewolf) but he most certainly forced others into it ... often forcing mothers to eat their babies Dracule always left cadavers to rot The (in)famous Vlad banquet amidst impaled people in concentric circles with those of highest rank at the centre was April 6, 1459 in the city of Brasov Impalement could be top down, bottom up or through the navel Most impalings done only between 1459 and 1461 In a battle in 1456 he impaled 20,000 Turks at once witnessed by Mohammed II outside Targoviste (Vlad's capital). Impalements were spread out over 2 square miles