By: andras

andras — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:36:57 +0000

Rhacodactylus, you are a bone-head, (pardon the pun) there is not much pain involved when somebody cuts on your bone-head. besides, they were well aware of the opium poppy; -in addition, you might have had your head BASHED in by an enemy club, as the egyptians used, and now, the surgeon is just removing the broken pieces,and repairing the damage. you are going to be OK. The Incas in Peru, did a LOT of those. There used to be a museum in Lima, where they had a vast collection of trepaned skulls, and I saw them with round holes, square holes, Tic-tac-toe cuts,and even small holes drilled in a large circle… when you see all that, you realize the practice must have been common place, (Here, chew on this Coca leaf, while we work on you…) their weapons included a STAR shaped club, about a foot and a half long, that would put neat holes in the side of your head if you forgot to DUCK.

By: M Burke

M Burke — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:45:42 +0000

The holes is where the put the straws.

By: Rhacodactylus

Rhacodactylus — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:00:57 +0000

I’ll never have the kind of stones it would take to let a guy cut into my head without anesthesia, there is no way I could have survived 4000 years ago.

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