#18875 - 02/15/01 09:45 AM
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Valentine's Day is safely passed...That's what they used to say.... Thus began a great purification ritual. Dressing only in the skins of the newly sacrificed goats, the priests ran about the foot of the Palatine… a major part of this rite was the lustration (light flogging or whipping) of citizens by means of goatskin strips, called februa. Anyone the priests encountered on their trek received a smack with these bloody hides. It was the women, however, who got most of the attention… http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa021401a.htm(and yes, Jackie, they were fresh out of goat skins in Cardigan, so I had to just get her flowers  )
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#18876 - 02/15/01 02:16 PM
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I read on another site a few days ago that this week was International Flirting Week. That seems more fun.
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#18877 - 02/15/01 06:05 PM
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#18879 - 02/15/01 07:24 PM
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That one made me laugh out loud - briefly but heartily!
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#18880 - 02/16/01 05:50 AM
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> That's happening more and more, as organ donors are in short supply
You didn't happen to read about those cases in Britain did you (I read it in Times). There's been a massive uproar concerning the hospital workers extracting organs from deceased patients (or PC its: negative-patient-output).
Apparently some are robbed of so much, that which is buried is little more than a shell of their former (physical) self. Those heartless swines!
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#18881 - 02/16/01 06:44 AM
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those heartless swines!Then there are the 'lucky' transgenic pigs - how did they get them to sign those Organ Donor cards? But you can imagine how it might happen: "Pork chops - ME?! - a sentient warm loving creature! Come on, now - have a heart!" 
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#18884 - 02/16/01 10:27 AM
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Sometimes it was hard to tell the swineherd from the swine. My father made a house visit to such an establishment, and the son of the patient felt it necessary to tell my father, "Pa's down yonder, You'll know him, he's got his hat on."
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