This week your favorite funeral clowns are bringing you the lowdown on the ancient execution technique known as gibbeting, some dinner parties to die for and so much more! We’ve got an obituary for an icon, one that left us with some questions, and of course we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminalsssss!
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Sources:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/gibbet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Act_1751
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-gibbet-historys-most-inhumane-punishment-7ce002ce6c83
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbeting
https://daily.jstor.org/a-roman-feast-of-death/
https://eatroman.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-emperor-domitians-black-banquet.html
https://www.thesmartset.com/article08310901/
https://passtheflamingo.com/tag/elagabalus/
https://greedhead.net/what-was-a-roman-banquet/#:~:text=What%20was%20a%20Roman%20banquet%3F%20In%20sum%2C%20the,elite%20friends%20and%20colleagues.%20Did%20Romans%20eat%20chickpeas%3F
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/banq/hd_banq.htm
https://medium.com/an-idea/the-extravagant-last-dinner-aboard-the-titanic-3a2f29bd0bef
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Oxford_Symposium_on_Food_Cookery_1990/XseXnb98h90C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=hell%20banquet
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/04/29/alfred-hitchcock-a-sadistic-prankster/
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/03/05/issue.html
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/25/obituary-of-the-pillsbury-doughboy/#:~:text=Obituary%20of%20the%20Pillsbury%20Doughboy.%20The%20Pillsbury%20Doughboy,Butterworth%2C%20Hungry%20Jack%2C%20the%20California%20Raisins%2C%20Betty%20Crocker%2C
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/04/07/3-decomposed-bodies-found-in-irvine-home/
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2008/12/17/grapevine-man-arrested-for-impersonating-police-used-chipotle-gift-card-as-badge/
