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- From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
- Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
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- References: <1992Nov17.043023.6606@cbnews.cb.att.com> <BxvtI7.LDy@access.digex.com> <lgj18jINN9f8@news.bbn.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:14:12 GMT
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- In article <lgj18jINN9f8@news.bbn.com> pdsmith@spca.bbn.com (Peter D. Smith) writes:
- >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<!
-
- My apologies for being unclear. The second story appears in records of the
- period.
-
- > He fought the first duel in Massachusetts, and had
- >to spend a day chained to his partner-in-crime.
-
- Both duellists surviving is the least satisfactory outcome, but I guess that
- your ancestor's being killed might have made problems for you, eh?
-
- >ObSingle: the duel was over the hand of a fair maiden who married someone
- >else entirely.
-
- She would seem to have been eminently sensible.
-
- -- Herb Huston
- -- huston@access.digex.com
-