[UA] Re: Weekend baptists

Thu Feb 24 10:32:18 PST 2005

Stoppers wouldn't work well on the living, IMHO,  as the living ( usually )
wiggle more than the dead.  

Super glue comes to mind though, as does a chain hoist over the pool to get
the sacrificial bovine out of the pool.

For pool refill times, perhaps a fire hose hooked to a conveniently close
fire hydrant could help out?  IIRC, a 1.75 inch fire hose has a capacity of
175 gallons per minute.  Filling a olympic size pool ( approx 704,000
gallons[1] ) from a fire hydrant alone would be bad ( say approx 68 hours,
or almost 3 days ) but perhaps it could assist whatever pumps are in place
to fill the pool.

As to herbs, there's this:
"Herbal therapy

A variety of herbal therapies can be useful in the treatment of
constipation. Several herbs, including chamomile (Matricaria recutita),
dandelion (Taraxacum mongolicum), and burdock (Arctium lappa), act as
bitters, stimulating the movement of the digestive and excretory systems.
There are also "laxative" herbs that assist with bowel movement. Two of
these are senna (Cassia senna) and buckthorn (Rhamnus purshiana). These
"laxative" herbs are stronger acting on elimination than bitters and can
sometimes cause cramping (mixing them with a calming herb like fennel or
caraway can help reduce cramping). Both senna and buckthorn are powerful
herbs that are best used with direction from an experienced practitioner,
since they can have adverse side effects and the patient may become
dependent on them."

From: 
http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/constipation.jsp

Although I have no idea if the herbs mentioned would work on cows.

-Rus

[1] http://www.nau.edu/naurec/aqua/main.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: RFD [mailto:sithriel at earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:18 PM
To: The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [UA] Re: Weekend baptists

Weeeel... Greg had better ideas.

It takes DAYS to fill a pool, and someone would notice if it was down
half the time. However, the idea of having to ritually prepare the
sacrifice is pretty common among cults. Force the animal to subsist only
on water with perhaps some 'holy' (read 'laxative') herbs infused for a
few days would accomplish both the basic goal of evacuating its bowels
and strengthening the animal's connection to 'water' as well...

There are 'stopper' devices tho... they are used in mortuaries and
basically screw in and plug it up... but I'm not sure how well they work
on thins not yet dead...

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 13:41 +0000, Ja ke wrote:
> Getting the dead cow out of the pool would be relatively easy in theory,
the 
> pool would be drained anyway after the ceremony, at which point the cow 
> could be chopped up for easy disposal in sealed bags with the mundane
trash 
> the pool and other facilities produce (which adds another way the cult can

> be found out, dumpster diving).
> 
> I'm not someone with even a passing understanding of cow rectums, but
would 
> it be possible to... uh...Sew it shut or in some way stopper it up before 
> hand?
> 
> >From: Greg Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com>
> >Reply-To: The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List
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> >To: The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
> >Subject: Re: [UA] Re: Weekend baptists
> >Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:59:19 -0600
> >
> >I was thinking about the practical angles of drowning a freaking COW in
the
> >local YMCA swimming pool, and a couple repulsive issues immediately came
to
> >mind.
> >
> >1) That cow's gonna crap all over the pool in its death throes.  Unless
> >Willie cleans it up thoroughly, which is probably a job taking hours and
> >hours, people will eventually notice.  Furthermore, elephant walk and
> >similar hazing aside, who joins a social group whose primary bonding
action
> >is to dive into a pool full of cow feces?
> >
> >There's a solution, however.  You have to prep the cow (or dog or other
> >animal).  I'm guessing that if you cut off its food for a 3+ days --
maybe
> >longer for a cow, it's got all those spare stomachs -- and dose it with
> >drugs that loosen the stools and cause convulsive instestinal action.  (I
> >think there's something along those lines with the brand name "Evenflo".
I
> >kid you not.)
> >
> >This has the advantage of giving you a clue trail.  Area pharmacists are
> >eventually going to remember the guy who is, over the course of a year,
> >buying GALLONS of this stuff (or its over-the-counter equivalent),
> >especially if he's furtive and creepy like the typical adept.
> >
> >2) Man, lifting a 40 pound kid out of a pool is hard work, especially if
> >he's dead weight.  How much does a dead COW weigh?  How are they getting
it
> >out of the water and then out of the building?  Starving the cow for a
> >while beforehand might mitigate the problem (and add an ASPCA angle to
the
> >whole thing) but still.  Evidence trail.
> >
> >-G.
> >
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> >robots hammering one another instead of opera.  Click below.
> >
> >http://www.danielsolis.com/meatbot/
> >
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