[Peace-discuss] Bellicose rhetoric???

[C. G. Estabrook]

When hanging was the primary mode of public execution, such a mention might be 
found embarrassing by the surviving family.  The apparent proverb appears in Don 
Quixote.


John W. wrote:
>     ...Perhaps we're not to mention fascism on the rule that one doesn't
>     mention rope in the house of a hanged man.
> 
> 
> This is a rule I'm not familiar with.  Whose interests are served by not 
> mentioning rope in the house of a hanged man?