ES - - Almars Trivia-new

[Joe Bramblett]

---Almar Bjarnklo  wrote:
>
> Ok how about the meaning of a honeymoon <sp> 
> Since I am getting married 
> soon......... The history of it?  

> It was the accepted practice in Babylonia 4,000 
> years ago that for a  month after the wedding, the 
> bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the 
> mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and 
> because their calendar was lunar based, this period 
> was called the "honey month" 
> - or what we know today as the "honeymoon."

And for the bored among you who wonder why...

Apparently, drinking large amounts of mead will alter the body's Ph
level, which has a notable effect on the probability of the drinker's
offspring's gender. As I understand it, mead increases the chance of a
male child.

...so now, whenever someone tells you that all those genetic
engineering experiments to tailor a child to the parents expectations
are a new and evil thing, remember that we've been doing it in far
more primitive ways for 4,000 years, and probably longer.


Conal, the horribly bored at the moment.
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