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From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Unintentional wordplay
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Date: Mon, 16-Jan-84 17:20:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 16 17:20:30 1984
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dartvax!tomj (Thos. Johnston) writes:

>..During the reign of Edward III of England, treason was defined to include
>having sexual relations with the sovereign's wife, the wife of the sovereign's
>eldest son, or the sovereign's eldest daughter unmarried.  The purpose, of
>course, was to protect the line of decent.

                                    ^^^^^^
Amusing.  (Also interesting.)

Mark Brader