Earliest man had methods to punish behaviors that were outside the group norm.\u00a0 Over thousands of year these methods have been refined and perfected. <\/p>\n
Match the punishment<\/em> with the appropriate person & submit your answers to the Summer of Jim web site.\u00a0 The winner(s) will receive a “no homework tonight” pass and a sugar free cookie.<\/p>\n 1. Stoning<\/u><\/strong>.\u00a0 Going back to biblical times, this was a punishment that was meted out for blasphemy, apostasy, prostitution, adultery, murder and jaywalking.\u00a0<\/p>\n In Deuteronomy (13:9-10) You must certainly put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.\u00a0 You shall stone him to death, because he tried to turn you from the Lord your God, who brought you out of <\/em>Egypt<\/em> out of the land of\u00a0slavery.<\/em><\/p>\n By the\u00a0Middle Ages Stonings were often staged during Jousts and Tournaments.\u00a0 The Church would have little children fill up wagons\u00a0with rocks\u00a0and bring them to the stoning pitch<\/em>… people would buy a bucket full of rocks and take aim at the offending party who would be\u00a0tied to a wagon wheel.\u00a0 Wagering over hitting specific parts of the anatomy would take place over two or three days, or until the person died.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 2. Staking.<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0 The Aztec Empire was one of the most advanced societies of the world.\u00a0 Their leaders were held responsible for the well being of their nation & if they erred they would be judged and in some cases would have the extreme punishment of staking.<\/em><\/p>\n Offending officials would be stripped of their garments and brought to a clearing, their bodies would be coated in honey, they would then be tied to stakes in the ground near a fire ant colony.\u00a0 If they cried out in agony another layer of honey would be applied.\u00a0 If the sun didn’t come out the punishment would be repeated on the next day.<\/p>\n 3. Silent Treatment.<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0 This is one of the oldest punishments going back to Neolithic <\/em>cave dwellers.\u00a0 <\/em>The frescoes of the Lascaux Caves accurately depict persons who are being ignored, and in other ways being excluded from a social circle.\u00a0 Punishment typically lasted a month (a lunar cycle); but sometimes would extend for months, particularly if the punishment occurred during a lunar eclipse.\u00a0 Occasionally there were some negative side effects that would be experienced… during a lengthy silent treatment<\/em>, the dwellers would have forgotten how to talk.<\/p>\n 4. Holding it in.<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0 In the 18th Century The Royal Navy had the heavy responsibility of protecting Mother England and<\/em> its far flung Empire.\u00a0 And a ship’s captain could not risk a breech in discipline.\u00a0 There were many punishments that were part and parcel of life aboard one of His Majesty’s ships.\u00a0 Flogging, keel-hauling were horrible; but the punishment that was feared above all else was the dreaded holding it in.<\/em>\u00a0 Sailors would not be permitted to “eliminate body wastes.” Before exacting punishment, the sailor would be given a double tot of rum & then the sergeant at arms would be assigned what was called the “piss watch”… The sailor was not permitted to relieve himself until the\u00a0triple watch had passed (12 hours).<\/p>\n 6. Time out.<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0 This unusual punishment was devised by the great Genghis Khan.\u00a0 Keeping control of his Army was of paramount importance.\u00a0 Questioning his authority was ruthlessly dealt with.\u00a0 The slightest of offenses would call for a variety of corporal punishments.\u00a0 Fingers, hands, tongues would be severed in a blink.\u00a0 Most feared was the time out.<\/em>\u00a0 The guilty party would have to face the ultimate disgrace of being sent from the communal fire and would have to stand with his back turned to his fellow members of the Horde,<\/em> couldn’t join in on any of the songs and would have to endure the embarrassment of catcalls, “zhuib, zhuib, zhuib,” which translates roughly as, shame, shame, shame!\u00a0 <\/em>Many of the offending persons would be found dead the next morning having taken\u00a0their own lives over the dishonor.<\/p>\n 7. The Beaupre.<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0 This was a most unusual punishment invented by a school master in the 20th Century who was denied access to corporal forms of punishment.\u00a0 It involved dragging a student seated in his desk into the adjacent boys restroom.\u00a0 “This is what happens when you giggle in class mister!”\u00a0 Some students still bear the mental scaring of this cruel punishment and as adults they have been known to drive thru muddle puddles at great speed to spray vulnerable old ladies waiting to cross the street.<\/p>\n 8. Taping.<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0 The “Rice Diet” was developed at Duke University in the 1930s as a method to treat obesity.\u00a0 The eating regimen was severe… limited to exacting portions of rice, fruit, vegetables, non-fat dairy, and also included extensive walking regimen for low impact exercising.\u00a0 The food intake was closely supervised and blood was taken daily to verify that no “food cheating” had taken place.\u00a0 Patients who enroll in the program have to sign a form pledging “not to cheat.”<\/p>\n There was an unusual punishment for cheaters.\u00a0 Blindfolded they were brought into a small room, seated in an uncomfortable chair… their legs would be taped to the legs of the chair, their hands would be taped behind their backs, their mouths would be taped closed… then a table would be placed before them heaped with cr\u00e8me filled donuts, warm brownies & Black Forest cake.<\/p>\n They would be left in the room to think about what they had done.<\/p>\n 9.\u00a0La Liberace.<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0 This was a unique form of punishment designed in the Salon of ‘Coco’ Chanel. Renown for her exquisite taste and sharp fashion eye, if one of her workers were found dressed in an inappropriate manner, they would be\u00a0forced to undress and put on a hideous costume (called la Liberace<\/em>), made from the ends of the cutting room floor and covered in sequins and lace.\u00a0 More than one employee would run from the room crying, never to be seen or heard from again rather than suffer the derisive stares of co-workers.\u00a0 Coco was known to sneer, “Qu’il s’habillent de la merde.”<\/em><\/p>\n 10. Clean-up.<\/u><\/strong> It is not surprising that so many punishments trace they origins to the military.\u00a0 When Hannibal moved his Armies from Carthage to Spain, then thru France, across the Alps into Italy he brought herds of elephants with him to form the “armored brigades” of the day.\u00a0 The trouble was they made a God-awful mess.\u00a0 The simple folk of Spain began to complain about the heaps of dung that littered the roads after Hannibal passed thru.\u00a0 Sick of hearing the griping, Hannibal ordered a team of soldiers selected from the ranks of the punished <\/em>be assigned the task of cleaning up after the elephants.\u00a0 This form of punishment continues to this day.\u00a0 The next time you are asked to clean up your room, you can thank Hannibal… he was the one that started it.<\/p>\n 11. Ducking stool.<\/u><\/strong> The aim of this form of 17th Century punishment was public humiliation.\u00a0 It was directed to women who gossiped, acted vindictively to their neighbors, had children out of wedlock or who flirted excessively.\u00a0 The offending lady would be strapped into a chair, which was suspended from a pole fixed on a rolling platform… first she would be paraded thru the village to the jeers of her neighbors, and then she would be brought to the edge of a river or pond, and given a dunk or two into the “drink”.\u00a0 The amount of time you were forced to remain under the water depended on the severity of your crime.\u00a0 On one occasion a woman in Leicestershire was eaten by a river sturgeon.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A. Barry Bonds<\/p>\n B. George W. Bush<\/p>\n C. Dick Cheney<\/p>\n D. Gary Moss<\/p>\n E. Wayne Newton<\/p>\n F. Rosie O’Donnell<\/p>\n G. Don Rumsfeld<\/p>\n H. Al Sharpton<\/p>\n I. Howard Stern<\/p>\n J. Martha Stewart<\/p>\n K.\u00a0Donald Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earliest man had methods to punish behaviors that were outside the group norm.\u00a0 Over thousands of year these methods have been refined and perfected. Match the punishment with the appropriate person & submit your answers to the Summer of Jim … Continue reading