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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: 1776
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Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 16:36:53 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 26 16:36:53 1984
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There is a scene in the musical "1776" just after Thomas Jefferson's wife 
has arrived.  Jefferson tosses a piece of paper down from his apartment to
John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, who are waiting in the street.  Adams reads 
it aloud.  The gist of Jefferson's note is:  "I am taking my wife to bed."
Adams pauses, then asks in a shocked voice, "In the middle of the 
afternoon???"  Franklin replies, "Not everyone's from Boston, John...."