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From: merrill@raja.DEC
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Subject: beatings in the Old Days
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 09:11:14 EDT
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Actually wife-beating was once upon a time such a Labor that a
genuine United States Patent was issued for a "wife-beating machine"!
(I once had the number, really, but it's probably lost in the archives now.)


	Rick Merrill

( I assume it was only used for masochists! )