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freshwest

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19. I vote for frozen leg of lamb:
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 03:56 PM
Apr 2015


"Lamb to the Slaughter" (1953) is a short story by Roald Dahl.

It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, but was ultimately published in Harper's Magazine in September 1953.[1]

It was adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and starred Barbara Bel Geddes. Originally broadcast on April 13, 1958, it was one of only 17 AHP episodes directed by Hitchcock himself. The story was subsequently adapted for Dahl's British TV series Tales of the Unexpected. Dahl included it in his short story compilation Someone like You.

"Lamb to the Slaughter" demonstrates Dahl's fascination with horror (with elements of black comedy), which is seen in both his adult fiction and his stories for children.[2] The story was supposedly suggested to Dahl by his friend Ian Fleming:

"Why don't you have someone murder their husband with a frozen leg of mutton which she then serves to the detectives who come to investigate the murder?"[3]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter

This might be your best method for selecting your blunt object.



Channeling his inner McGeorge Bundy. malthaussen Apr 2015 #1
he looks young--when will he enlist dembotoz Apr 2015 #2
He's a veteran alcibiades_mystery Apr 2015 #7
Then this knucklehead can serve again. BlueStater Apr 2015 #26
Can someone just shut this dumb Gomer Pyle-looking motherfucker up? Arkana Apr 2015 #3
I think he looks MUCH MORE like ... staggerleem Apr 2015 #9
I can hardly wait until Chuckie cheese schemer signs on to this bullshit still_one Apr 2015 #4
Put a gun in the chickenhawks hand workinclasszero Apr 2015 #5
Even Iran doesn't deserve that. onehandle Apr 2015 #6
LOL :) /nt workinclasszero Apr 2015 #31
I don't think we should use Weapons of Massive Dumbassery on another country... Thor_MN Apr 2015 #29
Oh my workinclasszero Apr 2015 #30
I suggest that we could take care of Tom Cotton ... staggerleem Apr 2015 #8
I vote for frozen leg of lamb: freshwest Apr 2015 #19
Anything the US is involved in internationally involves the threat of military force you idiot underpants Apr 2015 #10
Yeah - like that death-dealing beast isn't even there! Plucketeer Apr 2015 #12
Can anybody 2naSalit Apr 2015 #11
what about the people that elected him? BobbyBoring Apr 2015 #22
We is the folks that gave you the Clintons and the Huckleberries. LiberalArkie Apr 2015 #24
I have come to the conclusion, 2naSalit Apr 2015 #36
and americans heaven05 Apr 2015 #13
Wow. Bloodthirsty AND Stupid demwing Apr 2015 #14
We keep electing idiots to high office. n/t cosmicone Apr 2015 #15
Beyond stupid. And, what sites in the US will kiranon Apr 2015 #16
And it would take days, not weeks. We should have asked if it could have til all eternity. Elmer S. E. Dump Apr 2015 #17
Yep, just like the Iran war lasted 10 days lark Apr 2015 #18
2015 Iran is not 1998 Iraq, you dumb fuck NickB79 Apr 2015 #20
Bombing nuclear manufacturing facilities and plutonium piles is just nonsensical. truthisfreedom Apr 2015 #21
Shock and awe! Gotta work!!! Helen Borg Apr 2015 #23
In the Beginning: PeoViejo Apr 2015 #25
New Face, SOS again. n/t RKP5637 Apr 2015 #27
He's simply evil. Nothing other. There is nothing he will ever do to benefit the human race. n/t Judi Lynn Apr 2015 #28
I think that he watched too much sadoldgirl Apr 2015 #32
its a shame that morons can get elected samsingh Apr 2015 #33
As I said in another thread Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2015 #34
The same way we fixed the Iraq problem with "several days" of bombing? marble falls Apr 2015 #35
I can't WAIT to see Lieutenant Cotton's officer evaluation reports jmowreader Apr 2015 #37
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