Search: colombian necktie columbian
Why: On tonight's premiere of "Modern Family," Gloria threatened Manny's principal with it. I think it's made up, but Chandler thinks maybe it's that thing where you put a burning tire around someone's neck. Oh! or maybe when you tie a rope around his neck and attach a cinder block to it and throw it in the water!
(PS, did you guys notice New Lily?)
Answer: Oh no, it's so much grosser! It's a method of execution wherein the victim's neck is slashed open just below the jawline and his tongue is pulled out through the open wound. Yuck! How would that even work!
(If you want to see a likeness of it that I *think* is from a horror movie, click here. Warning: it's nasty.)
Anyway, the Colombian necktie is sometimes erroneously credited as having been invented by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar (who preferred burning people while hung upside-down), but this infamous method of killing was already in use since 1950, during La Violencia in Colombia's civil war.
And there's a band called Colombian Necktie, too. Get them to play your prom!
Source: Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia
The More You Know: That other thing - forcing a rubber tire filled with gasoline over a victim's chest and arms and lighting in on fire - is called necklacing, and it's one of the Top 10 Gruesome Methods of Execution! It was big in apartheidist South Africa.
Speaking of execution, how about that Troy Davis? The whole thing makes my chest hurt.
That band is "I killed the prom queen" from australia and the song is "colombian necktie"
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