Oh Woe, for misbegotten Usenet trolls think HC and MP are malicious, well they haven't gotten a load of me...

No! Zod cannot die-- he must live so he can suffer the boats!

[The king] decreed that Mithridates should be put to
death in boats; which execution is after the following
manner: Taking two boats framed exactly to fit and
answer each other, they lie down in one of them the
malefactor that suffers, upon his back; then, covering
it with the other, and so setting them together that
the head, hands, and feet of him are left outside, and
the rest of his body lies shut up within, they offer
him food, and if he refuse to eat it, they force him
to do it by pricking his eyes; then, after he has
eaten, they drench him with a mixture of milk and
honey, pouring it not only into his mouth, but all
over his face. They then keep his face continually
turned towards the sun; and it becomes completely
covered up and hidden by the multitude of flies that
settle on it. And as within the boats he does what
those that eat and drink must needs do, creeping
things and vermin spring out of the corruption and
rottenness of the excrement, and these entering into
the bowels of him, his body is consumed. When the man
is manifestly dead, the uppermost boat being taken
off, they find his flesh devoured, and swarms of such
noisome creatures preying upon and, as it were,
growing to his inwards. In this way Mithridates, after
suffering for seventeen days, at last expired.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

Now that's a curse upon someone, if I may say...

Ash Wurthing wrote:
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> Oh Woe, for misbegotten Usenet trolls think HC and MP are malicious, well they haven't gotten a load of me...

As usual, you flatter yourself, Ash.

HTH and HAND.

:)