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WCDT - Apr 11th to Apr 15th, 2022 (#4761 to #4765)
notStanley:
--- Quote from: Rincewind on 15 Apr 2022, 14:25 ---... neckties actually being nooses back in Ye Olde Days. If the King (or whatever) decided you were being untruthful, you'd be hung by your neckwear ...
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A later development was Baron Harkonnen's heart plugs :{
Pilchard123:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 15 Apr 2022, 15:23 ---
--- Quote from: zmeiat_joro on 15 Apr 2022, 14:34 ---I have a vague recollection of them being an evolution of the cravat. Confirmed. And apparently bow ties are also.
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Fun fact - the Polish word for necktie is actually "krawat" (pronounced pretty much the same as "cravat"). And I think the connection is preserved in some other languages, too (French, I think, for one).
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And IIRC is - or at least was - derived from hrvat, meaning "Croat", after the neckwear of Croatian soldiers.
zmeiat_joro:
--- Quote from: notStanley on 16 Apr 2022, 08:14 ---
--- Quote from: Rincewind on 15 Apr 2022, 14:25 ---... neckties actually being nooses back in Ye Olde Days. If the King (or whatever) decided you were being untruthful, you'd be hung by your neckwear ...
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A later development was Baron Harkonnen's heart plugs :{
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That was only a thing in the original film, and was not David Lynch's decision, but one of the screenwriters. (not that Frank Herbert didn't have enough fucked-up things in his novels). The fact that _Salvador Dali_ of all people had the less disturbing ideas in the original screenplay should tell you something.
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