Things I'm Wondering About

[ithildin]

Random things I'm wondering about today as my brain leaps from one fic to another.

Would the stays in a corset deflect a knife so that instead of it stabbing where it was intended, it would go in at a different angle, potentially causing a less serious wound?

What was the most popular serious/hardcore recreational drug during the Roaring Twenties? Was opium still being used heavily?

What about the teeth of Immortals anyway? Would they never wear down? Would they grow back if knocked out, or are lots of Immies wearing dentures?

Early nineteenth pistols. Need to know more. Must look through collected websites soonish.

Just what did happen when Charlotte went to Bali with Tony? Will they ever tell me? Do I really want to know?

If Ezra Standish had to choose another name for a new persona, what would it be?

Later: Wow! I wasn't expecting so much random pondering help [g] And some of these aren't even for any specific purpose, just idle curiosity. Like the immie teeth one. Why am I wondering about it? Not a klew! I just am.

Comments

Yes I watches the History Channel.

[bleukittie.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. Corsets covered the chest and back areas, and getting a wound in the chest was pretty much fatal. If someone got a glancing skin wound, maybe, but there's too many vital organs in that area for a complete miss. The nurses' opinions may vary.

Alcohol. Followed by marijuana, heroine, opium and cocaine.

I think they would grow back. Dental enamel would be replaced by the tooth fairy each night.

Which ones? The early pepperpots or the Colt 45s? Lots of info on the web for this.

Sun, fun, alcohol consumption, a few native dances and scuba diving.

Who is Ezra Standish? Umm I choose "Bruce Wayne" as a new name.

Re: Yes I watches the History Channel.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that if the attacker were behind and the victim turned at the inopportune moment, so the knife would hit somewhere below the shoulder... The knife tip could conceivably be thrown off even more by snagging on a bone. May have to get Nin to be a stand in for victim girl [g]

The pistol ponderings are just that right now -- a mental note to dig through all the websites I've found.

Ezra (in the icon) is one of the characters in Magnificent Seven, my newest old fandom :)

Re: Yes I watches the History Channel.

[fondued-jicama.livejournal.com]

You should ask surgicalsteel. She's really happy to answer medical questions, because she says it may lower the number of bad medical situations she has to read in fanfics. ;p How much she knows about corsets, though, I am not sure.