dfg42
Senator
At least the whip was cleaned in one scene, where the swiss says: "You can not yet whip, it is not yet dry...."One of the running jokes in 'Asterix and the Helvetians' is, that the Helvetians, the ancient Swiss, are obsessed with keeping everything clean. So, I assume that, whoever who gets crudified there, be it a crux girl or captured Romans, it will be on a very clean cross!
But for the clean cross, we have to take an Austrian product. But not only the fresh whip, there will be enema before the cornu, the sterile nails, the cross which is painted in water resistant paint, and all the edges are flattened. The later is no joke: My father was carpenter and he flattened or rounded all edges with sandpaper. And also in such crude things as guns, in the swiss ones you will not find one edge! American rifles you immediately recognise by just touching an edge. The same with airplanes. When Switzerland bought the F-5E Tiger II, I was told that the mechanics got shocked by seeing that the edges were not sandpapered and even the ones were cables are passing..... Silly and I guess that famous crucifixion in Palestine will also be done without any quality control!