The Scythe Diary

by DoDo
Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 01:01:46 PM EST

...as requested.

The Grim Reaper mows his lawn...

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The technique is: swing the scythe with both hands moving like a pendulum, letting its weight give most of the momentum for the cutting, if necessary also turn sideways in the process. The only problem is if the scythe wasn't built for your height - that's why the Grim Reaper has an aching back:

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The Grim Reaper sometimes also uses a sicle. A spectre is haunting Europe...

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If we are here, I post a photo from a few weeks ago, which connects to some past discussions on ET -- on the edge of a cementery where some ancestors of mine were buried, is this well-kept monument above a World War II mass grave for fallen Red Army soldiers.

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Er, sorry for the short grass, it's not so spectacular this way.

Now I'm back to watch Mexico-Iran, which promises to be more entertaining than the very tough Netherlands-Serbia-&-Montenegro match.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 01:03:58 PM EST
  • "Who is it honey?"
  • "It's a Mr Death or something, he's here about the reaping"
by Alex in Toulouse on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 01:15:33 PM EST
There is a comic book joke I saw in Fluide Glacial (comic strip magazine, definitely alternative & offbeat), but which unfortunately is untranslatable in English.

Using false documents in a judiciary context can send you for 3 years in jail here in France. And false is the word "faux" in French. The exact term for this legislation is "faux et usage de faux" (meaning "false and usage of false (documents)".

Well "faux" also means "scythe", so in this magazine I mention they had this a strip of a really perplex-looking Grim Reaper being arrested by a much shorter cop telling him "faux et usage de faux".

by Alex in Toulouse on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 01:20:51 PM EST
Ouch. I hate the backache from a too short scythe.
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 02:51:51 PM EST
swing the scythe with both hands moving like a pendulum, letting its weight give most of the momentum for the cutting, if necessary also turn sideways in the process

Grim Reaper is a cheat : the actual movement is that you are supposed to extend the scythe at arms length, then bring it towards you, thus cutting whatever it is you want to cut. Watch your toes !

by balbuz on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 03:03:58 PM EST
According to Neil Gaiman's Sandman series Death is a beautiful young woman and Destiny is the one with the grim demeanour. Although he carries a book rather than a scythe.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jun 11th, 2006 at 03:19:02 PM EST
Glad I found this diary in my sporadic ET readings these vacation days. I got a good laugh. I like to total camouflage approach. Must be rather warm in addition to back breaking work.
by Alexandra in WMass (alexandra_wmass[a|t]yahoo[d|o|t]fr) on Mon Jun 12th, 2006 at 06:40:34 PM EST
You remind me I forgot to link to the thread when it was requested that I do this photo diary and in this camouflage -- now done.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
by DoDo on Mon Jun 12th, 2006 at 07:14:44 PM EST
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