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Hmm. The Cross book, Pope Joan, is a novel. Last I heard about the subject, Pope Joan was a legend. Lawrence Durrell also penned a novella yclept The Curious History of Pope Joan. As for the thumb thang, since when has reason had any power over word-lovers. YCLIU has about as much force as RTFM. I do like the Canuckian Ffolklorist's name, though. It's an old English one and pronoucned Hyrck.



I'm with you, zmjezhd, but you skirt the point...

Did the term "rule of thumb" ever refer to the thickness of a rod, and was that thickness ever considered to be legal and proper to beat a wrong-doing legal wife with?

Hmmm?

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