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Title: Help! I can't think of a word.
Post by: Brinestone on April 02, 2007, 09:17:40 AM

What do you call the guy who swings the axe or lights the fire or puts the noose around someone's neck when they've been sentenced to death?

I know this word. I just can't think of it right now.

Title: Help! I can't think of a word.
Post by: Farmgirl on April 02, 2007, 09:17:59 AM

Executioner

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Post by: Brinestone on April 02, 2007, 09:20:17 AM

THANK YOU!

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Post by: Porter on April 02, 2007, 09:21:53 AM

Yup.

Title: Help! I can't think of a word.
Post by: Brinestone on April 02, 2007, 10:12:26 AM

No one has asked why the heck I needed that word.

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Post by: Jonathon on April 02, 2007, 10:13:48 AM

Why the heck did you need that word?

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Post by: Brinestone on April 02, 2007, 10:14:58 AM

I'm writing in my novel again today for the first time in months!

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Post by: Porter on April 02, 2007, 10:39:44 AM

Tell me about the novel you're writing.

(Heh.  That sure sounded like an eliza (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA)-like response.)

Title: Help! I can't think of a word.
Post by: Brinestone on April 02, 2007, 11:27:07 AM

Um, it's an epic fantasy novel about a father-son-ish relationship wherein the father is basically blue and the son is basically orange. Each tries to do what he thinks is right and worth doing, and conflict arises between them. In the end, one becomes the villain, and the other finds he is the only one left alive who can save the world by killing the person he loves most in it.

Title: Help! I can't think of a word.
Post by: Brinestone on April 02, 2007, 11:29:00 AM

And yes, I planned out the entire plot before seeing Revenge of the Sith.