Holofernes Street - Revision history

Prime.mover at 10:40, 9 June 2018

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	In the deuterocanonical* books of the Bible, the book of Judith tells the story of how the invading Persian king Nebuchadnezzar's general, Holofernes, sent to ravage Israel for not submitting to Persian rule, was ~~asassinated~~ by the wiles of the Jewish widow Judith. Basically, she shared his bed, got him drunk, waited for him to drop off, then beheaded him. As few things seem to excite men more than a glamorous female Assassin - as no doubt [[Alice Band]] and her colleagues are aware - this has reverberated down the ages in song, literature and art. Mr [[Mericet]] would have given Judith the pink slip instantly: recall that the final test for the student Assassin is having to slay a seemingly sleeping body in a bed...		In the deuterocanonical* books of the Bible, the book of Judith tells the story of how the invading Persian king Nebuchadnezzar's general, Holofernes, sent to ravage Israel for not submitting to Persian rule, was assassinated by the wiles of the Jewish widow Judith. Basically, she shared his bed, got him drunk, waited for him to drop off, then beheaded him. As few things seem to excite men more than a glamorous female Assassin - as no doubt [[Alice Band]] and her colleagues are aware - this has reverberated down the ages in song, literature and art. Mr [[Mericet]] would have given Judith the pink slip instantly: recall that the final test for the student Assassin is having to slay a seemingly sleeping body in a bed...


	*ie, second-division, accepted as Canonical by some Christian denominations but dismissed as apocryphal by others. The Church of England hedges its bets by including it in its New English Bible, but putting it into a ~~seperate~~ box labelled "Apocrypha"		*ie, second-division, accepted as Canonical by some Christian denominations but dismissed as apocryphal by others. The Church of England hedges its bets by including it in its New English Bible, but putting it into a separate box labelled "Apocrypha"

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	Holofernes Street rises at [[Pseudopolis Yard]] and extends via [[New Bridge]] to Fetters Lane, where it meets the river again. It was a location in {{MAA}}, where a helpful gargoyle found a far-flung fragment of the ill-used dragon [[Chubby]], who had been used as an improvised explosive device to attack the [[Assassins' Guild]].		'''Holofernes Street''' rises at [[Pseudopolis Yard]] and extends via [[New Bridge]] to Fetters Lane, where it meets the river again. It was a location in {{MAA}}, where a helpful gargoyle found a far-flung fragment of the ill-used dragon [[Chubby]], who had been used as an improvised explosive device to attack the [[Assassins' Guild]].


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	In the deuterocanonical* books of the Bible, the book of Judith tells the story of how the invading Persian king Nebuchadnezzar's general, Holofernes, sent to ravage Israel for not submitting to Persian rule, was asassinated by the wiles of the Jewish widow Judith. Basically, she shared his bed, got him drunk, waited for him to drop off, then beheaded him. As few things seem to excite men more than a glamorous female Assassin - as no doubt [[Alice Band]] and her colleagues are aware - this has reverberated down the ages in song, literature and art. Mr [[Mericet]] would have given Judith the pink slip instantly: recall that the final test for the student Assassin is having to slay a seemingly sleeping body in a bed...		In the deuterocanonical* books of the Bible, the book of Judith tells the story of how the invading Persian king Nebuchadnezzar's general, Holofernes, sent to ravage Israel for not submitting to Persian rule, was asassinated by the wiles of the Jewish widow Judith. Basically, she shared his bed, got him drunk, waited for him to drop off, then beheaded him. As few things seem to excite men more than a glamorous female Assassin - as no doubt [[Alice Band]] and her colleagues are aware - this has reverberated down the ages in song, literature and art. Mr [[Mericet]] would have given Judith the pink slip instantly: recall that the final test for the student Assassin is having to slay a seemingly sleeping body in a bed...

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2012-12-05T00:18:07Z

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	In the deuterocanonical* books of the Bible, the book of Judith tells the story of how the invading Persian king Nebuchadnezzar's general, Holofernes, sent to ravage Israel for not submitting to Persian rule, was asassinated by the wiles of the Jewish widow Judith. Basically, she shared his bed, got him drunk, waited for him to drop off, then beheaded him. As few things seem to excite men more than a glamorous female Assassin - as no doubt [[Alice Band]] and her colleagues are aware - this has reverberated down the ages in song, literature and art. Mr [[Mericet]] would have given ~~judith~~ the pink slip instantly: recall that the final test for the student Assassin is having to slay a seemingly sleeping body in a bed...		In the deuterocanonical* books of the Bible, the book of Judith tells the story of how the invading Persian king Nebuchadnezzar's general, Holofernes, sent to ravage Israel for not submitting to Persian rule, was asassinated by the wiles of the Jewish widow Judith. Basically, she shared his bed, got him drunk, waited for him to drop off, then beheaded him. As few things seem to excite men more than a glamorous female Assassin - as no doubt [[Alice Band]] and her colleagues are aware - this has reverberated down the ages in song, literature and art. Mr [[Mericet]] would have given Judith the pink slip instantly: recall that the final test for the student Assassin is having to slay a seemingly sleeping body in a bed...

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2012-09-23T22:01:30Z

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AgProv: The legend of Judith, beautiful lady Assassin.

2011-03-27T20:14:53Z

The legend of Judith, beautiful lady Assassin.

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Holofernes Street rises at [[Pseudopolis Yard]] and extends via [[New Bridge]] to Fetters Lane, where it meets the river again. It was a location in {{MAA}}, where a helpful gargoyle found a far-flung fragment of the ill-used dragon [[Chubby]], who had been used as an improvised explosive device to attack the [[Assassins' Guild]].

== Annotation ==

In the deuterocanonical* books of the Bible, the book of Judith tells the story of how the invading Persian king Nebuchadnezzar's general, Holofernes, sent to ravage Israel for not submitting to Persian rule, was asassinated by the wiles of the Jewish widow Judith. Basically, she shared his bed, got him drunk, waited for him to drop off, then beheaded him. As few things seem to excite men more than a glamorous female Assassin - as no doubt [[Alice Band]] and her colleagues are aware - this has reverberated down the ages in song, literature and art. Mr [[Mericet]] would have given judith the pink slip instantly: recall that the final test for the student Assassin is having to slay a seemingly sleeping body in a bed...

*ie, second-division, accepted as Canonical by some Christian denominations but dismissed as apocryphal by others. The Church of England hedges its bets by including it in its New English Bible, but putting it into a seperate box labelled "Apocrypha"

[[Category: Streets of Ankh-Morpork]]