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Originally Posted by SteveDallas

Because as we all know, the British are not at all perverted or kinky or deviant in any way. (That whole vice anglais thing... a total fabrication.)

Darn you, Steve. I had to look it up.

(Redirected from Le vice Anglais)Flagellation or flogging is the act of methodically beating or whipping (Latin flagellum, "whip") the human body. Specialised implements for it include rods, switches, the cat-o-nine-tails and the sjambok. Typically, flogging is imposed on an unwilling subject as a punishment; however, it can also be submitted to willingly, or performed on oneself, in religious or sadomasochistic contexts.
In some circumstances the word "flogging" is used loosely to include any sort of corporal punishment, including birching and caning. However, in British legal terminology, a distinction was drawn (and still is, in one or two colonial territories) between "flogging" (with a cat-o'-nine-tails) and "whipping" (formerly with a whip, but since the early 19th century with a birch). In Britain itself these were both abolished in 1948.

Wow, 1948. So I guess these guys were lucky the ladies were unarmed.

From Oceans Thirteen:

Roman Nagel: [about the Greco] He named it after himself.
Danny Ocean: [confused] Wait. Greco? Roman?
Roman Nagel: You obviously haven't served time in a British boarding school.