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[JacenHanLovesLegos]

They are. Kinda like the quote in your sig.

I read about someone that collapsed half their fort into the magma sea because of a misplaced channel.

[Zaerosz]

Made a 100z execution tower/pit with the bottom floor open to the magma sea. Pitted a goblin. Pulled a lever. The lever extended the retractable bridge over the bottom of the pit. Imagine falling 95 floors and staring at the magma waiting at the bottom of the hole, then suddenly FLOOR OUT OF NOWHERE and you hit it and explode. I found his head on the balcony 20 levels up from the bottom.

[ElthMysterius]

I am currently building an execution tower that also serves as my gatehouse. The bottom of the tower contains the passage which all caravans and invaders must pass through, flanked by walls of fortifications from which archers watch arrivals.

This ensures that any visitor's first impression of the fortress is of a hallway drenched in blood and gore, while wary marksdwarves leer at them from behind rows of fortifications, crossbows aimed and ready. To let them know WE ARE NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH.

[Girlinhat]

Hmm, long drops make gobos explode?  I need a way to separate the limbs and skulls from bodies, so that I can make my Goblin Skull Totem adorned with Goblin Bones.

[Urist Imiknorris]

You'd still need to tweak dwarven ethics to allow them to make things of sentient creatures.

[shmelse]

You'd still need to tweak dwarven ethics to allow them to make things of sentient creatures.

hmmm, I can definitely use goblin bones as decorations, when the arms and legs on my stockpile finally rot to bone. I thought the problem was that you couldn't butcher them, not that you couldn't use them once they finally show up on their own. I haven't made any gobbo totems yet, though, so I can't confirm that that's possible. and I haven't touched that part of the raws. 

[shlorf]

Any bones you get from 'natural' means (pit dropping, axe dwarfs), can be used just fine, same for troll tusks. You cannot butcher the parts and partial skeletons that don't rot down to bones without changing the ethics in the raws tho.
Golbin teeth cannot be used, but I'm pretty sure there's just some tags missing for a few body parts in the raws, since i cannot use forgotten beast teeth either usually.