My cast iron flying pan would make a great weapon, except it’s so heavy I’m not sure I could swing it without dropping it (it’s a really big wok, actually)
My saute pan, however, it both light enough to swing easily and hard enough to cause many hit points of damage. Would also be useful in defense for blocking an attack
That’s another problem, I’m not sure. I heard this from my mom, who heard it from my sister, who heard it from her friend, who assumed that because her mother hit her father on the head (and forcefully to the back, I forgot to mention) that he died because of it. Maybe he had a heart attack as a direct result of being beaten? I don’t know if that constitutes murder.
You’re right, there’s no good reason that EMTS or coroners would miss head trauma. I don’t know if there’s any kind of head trauma that would cause death that wouldn’t be painfully obvious to all involved. I’m not sure, I wasn’t there, which is another problem.
But it just seems very strange to me that a 45-year-old man would suffer a fatal heart attack so suddenly. And it seems strange that the heart attack would happen right after a beating with a frying pan. Maybe my sister’s friend was lying about something. I don’t know!
I just think that these things are underreported, because someone is trying to hide something, or maybe what actually killed him was not obvious. I have looked at death statistics, and I knew a couple people who were killed violently, and I know that what MAY have caused the deaths was not the attributed cause of the deaths, and now I have a healthy disrespect for death statistics.
I’m not saying that “the number one killer in domestic disputes is a frying pan,” but I think it happens a lot more often than anyone knows.
I still don’t think I should go to the police with my scanty hearsay informations. Is there any reason why they would take me seriously? I don’t think so.
Sorry it took me so long to get back to this thread. I was deeply troubled all of last night. Things like this stick with me, and make me feel helpless.
Not just in the South – “spiders” is used in the Northeast, too. The term (used by an ex-girlfriend) confused the hell out of me, until I saw one early model that was clearly intended to be used over campfires, instead of on a stove top. It had four long, spindly legs that would rest on the ground and would keep the frying surface level, but raised 6"-8" above the ground. It had long spindly legs like a …spider.
I hope ya got the model with the anodized surfaces. Hides the fingerprints better.
Quoth Broomstick:
And here, I always thought that you used a Cessna or some such. What are the aerodynamics like on your pan? How much runway space do you need?
D&R
I’m thinking of last night’s South Park episode where Cartman hits Kyle with a blunt object.
Kyle: Ow! What are you doing?
Cartman: Killing you, Kyle. I could only afford a wiffleball bat. This may take some time.
You should see what it does for the butt stock.
No runway… she was using “cast” as a verb.
Heh. The United States is a very big country, and we have many regionalisms. When I was a kid, living in Fort Worth, Texas, every summer we went up to New England to see my father’s family. This is something like two to three thousand miles, one way. When we got there, my siblings and I frequently could not understand or be understood by our cousins, who spoke with a pronounced Yankee (in this case, Yankee refers to New Englanders) accent, and of course we spoke with a pronounced Texas accent. We also used different words or terms for the same objects, causing a great deal of confusion.
In my case, I use “frying pan” and “skillet” pretty much interchangably. I don’t prefer one over the other.
America is a composed of a very diverse lot of immigrants. In many places, one group has settled, so that you will see areas of cities called Little Italy, for instance, because it’s comprised of mostly Italian immigrants and their descendants. My mother lived for some years in a little Texas town that had been settled by Germans, and so the whole town had a lot of German traditions.
It’s very hard to say that “all Americans say this”, because we generally DON’T all use the same word.
By the way, I am a United States citizen, but I am NOT a Yank.
Yeah I always wondered how “Yank” came to mean “American” over in England, when here, it only refers to someone from New England. In some parts of America, calling someone a Yank isn’t advisible. Them’s fightin’ words.
You throw them much like a frisbee, don’t you know 
Sort of like Captain America’s shield.
You throw them much like a frisbee, don’t you know
Sort of like Captain America’s shield.
No disrepect to Elysian, but this pun is begging to be let out to play:
If someone hit you round the head with a cast-iron skillet, would you be trepanned?
It’s used all over Europe, btw. I think it’s because you don’t have a proper name for your country. We can’t call you Americans because while you are, so are Cubans and Brazilians etc. Yank is short, to the point and sounds delightfully snobby.
Speaking from experience, a 12" cast iron frying pan wielded by an irrate 6’1" wife can render one unconcious very quickly.
Elysian writes:
> I just think that these things are underreported, because someone is trying to
> hide something, or maybe what actually killed him was not obvious. I have
> looked at death statistics, and I knew a couple people who were killed
> violently, and I know that what MAY have caused the deaths was not the
> attributed cause of the deaths, and now I have a healthy disrespect for death
> statistics.
Have you ever considered that the people you know aren’t a random sample of all Americans? I’m not claiming that the people I know are a random sample either, but I don’t know of anyone who was killed violently. Furthermore, I’m pretty sure that if any of my friends, relatives, or coworkers saw someone hit their spouse in a domestic argument, they would call the police immediately and that person would be spending the night in jail.
This is the part that rather boggles MY mind - your mom made her choice not to go to the police because your sister’s friendship with Suzy would be destroyed??? YIKE! Who’s in control here, anyway? Who’s the adult in the situation?
Sorry. I have a friend whose teenager is currently under the care of social services in no small part because the adults in her life gave her way too much “power” in the family, and didn’t do their jobs of being the adults… Her mother (my friend) once refrained from telling another family the daughter had lice (brought home from school) because the daughter didn’t want to be prevented from seeing the other family’s kid for the duration of treatment. The other mom went ballistic when she did find out, took a long time to repair that relationship…
ok - </rant>
OMG, don’t you poeple know anything? Frying pans… puh! Everyone knows that rolling pins are the number on cause. Did you never watch Bugs Bunny?
What has this country come to.
A guy here got hit in the head with a cast-iron skillet during a domestic dispute by one of the two women who were living with and taking advantage of him. Poor guy was a little “slow” to begin with, though perfectly harmless and the type of person who’d give you the shirt off his back. I think he’s in a nursing home now.