# Omnibus Evil MFers in the news thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 3, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496 "2023-05-03T11:05:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/341 "2023-09-27T19:09:47Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I have a foot long serrated bread knife that is pretty sharp. Yeah, a good bread knife is sort of like a hack saw. We’re not talking about a butter knife here. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/342 "2023-09-27T19:23:27Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > What if you’re in a hurry? Demo saw. Best dismemberment tool evah. Or so I have heard\*… \*["Law & Order: Criminal Intent" Gods & Insects (TV Episode 2010) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1605306/) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/343 "2023-09-27T19:28:20Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Now I just have to see if I can buy a full-length clear plastic suit on Amazon… Must they be clear? Unless you want to wear it and nothing else underneath, for that atavistic “I am the prehistoric hunter yet I stay clean” feeling? [https://www.amazon.com/Disposable-Protective-Laminated-Polypropylene-Microporous/dp/B099YM9RBM?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref\_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A33U4F0IW83UR5](https://www.amazon.com/Disposable-Protective-Laminated-Polypropylene-Microporous/dp/B099YM9RBM?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A33U4F0IW83UR5) Home depot has paper ones for painting that can be burned. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/344 "2023-09-27T19:49:35Z")
How do you remember that stuff? I barely remember writing it! ¯\_(⊙\_ʖ⊙)\_/¯ ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/345 "2023-09-27T19:52:27Z")
The line: “Look, has anybody here besides me actually removed a human head from its body?” stuck with me. It deserves to be engraved in the SDMB hall of fame. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/346 "2023-09-27T19:57:13Z")
LOL, fair enough. In real life, I have on occasion used variants of that line when talking with lay persons who declare they have greater knowledge than I on certain medical topics. Discussing removing a head was unique to the SDMB for me, though. ---
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/347 "2023-09-27T20:32:26Z")
Yeah, not likely that someone can top that experience. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/348 "2023-09-27T20:43:49Z")
I want to read that thread. Can someone point me to it? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/349 "2023-09-27T20:45:14Z")
> [@How Easy Is It To Sever A Head?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-sever-a-head/458505/11): > > Yup. It would take some finesse to get around the facet joints of the vertebrae. In fact, I did decapitate my cadaver years ago in medical school, with nothing but a scalpel and a little patience. (It was a planned step in the dissection, the better to study the structures of the head) ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/350 "2023-09-27T21:26:58Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/351 "2023-09-27T21:34:43Z")
Heh. We just finished watching 6ixtynin9 last night. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/352 "2023-09-27T22:02:33Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Thoughts: it must take a great deal of strength to achieve a decapitation with a bread knife. Not surprising that a discriminating butcher takes the best parts to go. I suspect the biggest trick is getting the blade _between_ vertebrae so you don’t have to cut bone, otherwise, some patience and determination will get the job done. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/353 "2023-09-27T22:03:13Z")
Ah, but sewing in on next to the other head-now there’s the trick. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/354 "2023-09-27T22:04:29Z")
You certainly don’t read/hear that every day… ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/355 "2023-09-27T22:11:27Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > How do you remember that stuff? I barely remember writing it! ¯\_(⊙\_ʖ⊙)\_/¯ It kind of stuck in peoples’ minds. It just underscores that what, for doctors, is “just Tuesday” can be quite alarming to the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/356 "2023-09-27T22:16:09Z")
What if you just sawed through all of the muscle and maybe tendons and the like, and then pulled/twisted/kicked etc. the head? Would you be able to separate the vertebrae that way? ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/357 "2023-09-27T22:18:36Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I suspect the biggest trick is getting the blade _between_ vertebrae so you don’t have to cut bone, otherwise, some patience and determination will get the job done. Just like carving a turkey. ---
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/358 "2023-09-27T22:23:26Z")
Exactly what I was thinking, just twist it off. It would probably resist that twisting, but you could use a board C-clamped to the head for added torque, or maybe just insert a broom handle into the mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/359 "2023-09-27T22:35:06Z")
> [@Capn\_Carl](#): > > maybe just insert a broom handle into the mouth I think the cheeks and mandible (at the TMJ) would tear away before the inter-vertebral connective tissue would give way. Besides, head removal and other such procedures should be _elegant_, don’t you think? There’s as much art as there is science to such things, IMNSHO. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/360 "2023-09-27T22:41:43Z")
So, it’s twist _and_ pull. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=19)