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- From: pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
- Message-ID: <lgj18jINN9f8@news.bbn.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 23:49:39 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.204331.17994@bnlux1.bnl.gov> <BxtzDC.8p0@access.digex.com> <1992Nov17.043023.6606@cbnews.cb.att.com> <BxvtI7.LDy@access.digex.com>
- Reply-To: pdsmith@spca.bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
- Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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- In article <BxvtI7.LDy@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
- >Well, it was the only brush with criminality that I could find on my father's
- >side of the family. Among my mother's, though, two were arrested in 1730 on
- >a charge of "traveling on Sunday." However, they were able to get the
- >Massachusetts General Assembly to quash the sentence and have the fine
- >remitted.
-
- Hah! I can beat all of those -- *my* ancestor commited a crime >recorded
- in real history books<! He fought the first duel in Massachusetts, and had
- to spend a day chained to his partner-in-crime.
-
- ObSingle: the duel was over the hand of a fair maiden who married someone
- else entirely.
-
- Peter D. Smith
-
- (We also have our very own Library of Congress cataloging number)
-