He was also capable of creating the absurd, producing, for example, a dress with conical bosoms more likely to impale than to support.

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In olden days, barbarians would decapitate an enemy leader and impale his severed head on a pike to serve as a warning to others.

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" "Go impale yourself on a prick.

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It is hard to believe - especially in the wake of the President's much-ridiculed decision to close Guantanamo Bay without a better plan for safely incarcerating its dangerous detainees - that either the Chief Executive or legislators really want to impale themselves on another national security decision that defies common sense.

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