it'll get censored...! mind you, kids love this sort of post i reckon, children can be so inventively nasty.

the story goes that they didn't wish to kill him leaving a mark on his body...so they put a plumber's horn (or a funnel of some kind) up his fundament, and then shoved a red hot poker where the sun don't shine...of course, agonising as this might be, you'd have to shove it all the way up to the diaphragm to kill someone immediately.

it's probably not true, but was invented because Edward II was almost certainly homosexual and this was seen by contemporaries as fitting for a sodomite. As to the leaving a mark on his body thing, well, i reckon some severe burns on the buttcheeks might have resulted, whereas suffocation would have been easier and (much) quieter...