31: The Hangman & The Windsor Knot
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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🗓️ 23 August 2016
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
How a perfectly tied Windsor knot led to a date with the gallows.
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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 | Yes! |
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| 0:17.4 | Enjoy the same feeling whatever the trip. |
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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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