# His head just popped right off!

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 9, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/his-head-just-popped-right-off/709386 "2015-01-09T12:39:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/his-head-just-popped-right-off/709386/121 "2017-03-06T19:17:01Z")

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I believe the proper way is to hold them at _the feet_.

The sound of a snapped bull whip is when the large initial force at the handle to “crack” the entire system system travels over increasingly smaller mass, and arrives at the featherweight flick having lost only a fraction on the preceding time; the flick breaks the sound barrier and we hear the shock wave interaction.

I would think the tensile strength of the leather is higher than the skeletal and ligament system–not to speak that it is a continuum without intermediate failure points than your average enemy soldier. Nonetheless, that is how I’d pop his head off in the telling.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/his-head-just-popped-right-off/709386/122 "2017-03-06T20:50:57Z")

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> [@digs](#):
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> Nice… I’m going to remember this!  
> As I nod and look like I’m totally buying That Guy’s story about “F’kin 'Nam, mannn…”

You lied about fighting in the Vietnam War! It’s like punching the American Flag in the face goddammit! God!! To think I believed you!!!

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/his-head-just-popped-right-off/709386/123 "2017-03-20T21:31:21Z")

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> [@seal\_cleaner](#):
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> Kidding. Also, if the head pops off, you’re doing it wrong. You crack them like a whip and it breaks their neck.

Why? You’re going to remove the head anyway. I mean, at least I am.

No, it’s definitely a twisting motion. I’ve never considered whipping them.

A friend from high school said his mother one time grabbed a snake and cracked it like a whip to kill it. :eek: I think it was a case of [noodling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noodling) gone [wrong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noodling#Dangers).

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