Flatlander comments At weddings one still occasionally hears "If there be anyone present who knows of any reason these two should not be joined in wedlock, let him* speak now or forever hold his* peace."

Followed, one hopes, by a long and silent pause.

Completely off topic, when a friend of ours married another friend some twenty-odd years ago, we "friends" formed a conspiracy. When the minister asked the question above, we coughed, muttered and shuffled and looked around "guiltily". Got a laugh, anyway.


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