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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

31: The Hangman & The Windsor Knot

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.940.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2016

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

How a perfectly tied Windsor knot led to a date with the gallows.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sometimes you just need to get away.

0:02.8

And for the Aglewall family, it was well over June.

0:05.5

They wanted to know exactly what they were getting,

0:08.0

like knowing their kids stay and eat a delicious breakfast for free.

0:11.6

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0:12.6

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0:17.4

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0:19.8

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0:21.9

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0:24.5

Season C's apply of two kids stay and eat breakfast free with a full paying adult.

0:30.4

This is the way I heard it.

0:37.9

The hangman looked out upon the crowd of spectators who had come to watch the execution.

0:43.4

It was an enthusiastic gathering, bigger than usual.

0:47.0

He waited for his cue and when it came, he slipped the noose over the head of the condemned

0:52.5

and tightened the hangman's knot behind the left ear.

0:56.3

Then in the seconds before the floor fell away, the hangman allowed his mind to wander back

1:02.1

to a simpler time.

1:03.5

A time when the only knot he cared about tying was the elusive Windsor.

1:09.2

Every Sunday morning, as the father dressed for church, the sun would watch and wonder,

1:13.5

as the long ribbon of silk looped and spiraled around itself in a mysterious series of swirls

1:19.1

and eddies, culminating in a perfectly proportioned protuberance high and snug against his dad's

1:25.5

neck.

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