Just had a thought for the Youth Olympic Games here. Imagine this at the opening ceremony, after all the fanfare the grand final unviels with a RSAF fly by.
A huge podium covered in locals orchids, slowly splits opens accompanied by smoke and dramatic music to reveal a rising flag draped pole, at the base Fricker is strapped. Spot light on his bottom and the Merlin appears and gives him six of the best with a large satay covered stick. Another world first... The crowd goes wild and everyone saves face.
Or is this some colonial public school fetish throw back? BTW what do you call the "executioner" in this case a merlin, that does the whipping a whippor who whips the whippee?
