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Actor Tommy Flanagan has the scars of a Glasgow smile from having been attacked outside a bar in Glasgow.[1]
A Glasgow smile (also known as a Chelsea grin/smile, or a Glasgow, Smiley, Huyton, A buck 50, or Cheshire grin) is a wound caused by making a cut from the corners of a victim's mouth up to the ears, leaving a scar in the shape of a smile.[2][3]
The act is usually performed with a utility knife or a piece of broken glass, leaving a scar which causes the victim to appear to be smiling broadly.[4]
The practice is said to have originated in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1920s and 30s.[5]
Notable victims
- Fang Xiaoru (1357–1402), Chinese scholar-official[6]
- Agustín Lara (1897–1970), Mexican composer
- William Joyce (1906–1946), American-born fascist and Nazi propaganda broadcaster during World War II
- Elizabeth Short (1924–1947), also known as Black Dahlia, an American woman found murdered in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California
- Lee Seung-bok (1959–1968), a nine-year-old South Korean boy murdered by North Korean commandos
- Tommy Flanagan (born 1965), a Scottish actor
See also
- Colombian necktie
- Dueling scar
- Glasgow razor gangs
- Glasgow's miles better – 1980s advertising campaign
- Headbutt, known as a "Glasgow kiss" or "Glaswegian kiss"
- Joker (The Dark Knight)
- Kuchisake-onna ("Slit-Mouthed Woman")
- Slashing (crime)
References
- ↑ Fretts, Bruce (12 November 2014). "Sons of Anarchy's Tommy Flanagan on Those Facial Scars, This Final Season, and Chibs". Vulture. New York. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ↑ Mills, Rod (27 October 2008). "Surgeon Says Hospitals Treat a Knife Victim Every Six Hours". Daily Express. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
- ↑ Arlidge, John (24 April 1995). "City Slicker Glasgow". The Independent. London. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
- ↑ Peter Ward Booth; Barry L. Eppley; Rainer Schmelzeisen (2003), Maxillofacial trauma and esthetic facial reconstruction, Churchill Livingstone, p. 555, ISBN 9780443071249
- ↑ McKay, Reg (19 October 2007). "Razor gangs ruled the streets but even in the violence of pre-war years, one man stood out". Daily Record. Glasgow. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ↑ Elman, Benjamin (2013). Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China. Harvard University Press. p. 30. ISBN 9780674724952.
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