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Woman giving the testomany?


I aplogise if this has been asked before but on a recent viewing of the film a question popped up. The woman who stands up and speaks in court about the doors being locked in the church and the fire and she says everybody died and the judge reminds her that she didn't and again she says everybody died. I didn't really understand what she meant by this seeing as she is still alive? I took it to mean that she's saying a part of her life died in there due to the horrifying experience and that's why she say's it or maybe it meant something else?

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Oh, you mean testimony.

When I saw the heading of your post, my first thought was that perhaps "testomany" was a little-known word meaning "manual examination of testes", and you were asking whether it wouldn't have been more appropriate for that procedure to be performed by a male medical professional rather than a female one.

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lol! You beat me to it!

suzycreamcheese RIP Heath Ledger 1979-2008

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I nearly died reading this. So funny.

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