Gallows
Gallows noun - An instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging.
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- German Humor is pretty fond of gallows humor.
Source: Gallows Humor - Gallows Humor: Zero's comments on other blogs as well as his own writing has a pretty high level of this, especially after his BSoDs.
Source: Blog / A Hint of Serendipity - Blofeld does this twice in You Only Live Twice, and the second one is pretty funny, in a gallows humour kind-of-way.
Source: Blofeld Ploy
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