SC - to be truly period...

[jeffrey s heilveil]

> On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> 
> > That's all. (There is a group in NSW who decided that being accurate 
> > meant sleeping on straw. Someone said people might be allergic to it. So 
> > they discussed it, and decided people always had been allergic to it. But 
> > they still used to sleep on it. So they would too. These people are 
> > _very_ good reenactors. I don't think everybody wants to be that good. So 
> > most people aren't. But we can all aspire to be a bit better)

I was reminded last night, during an exam, of another way that we can all
be a little more period.  During the 1500's the dominant way of getting
rid of agriculttural pests involved reliance on the church.  There was a
record in the church log of some bishop going out to a field infested with
Caterpillars and announcing that the Caterpillars had six days to leave
the field, or they would be excommunicated.  In the end, I think that they
were Jewish Caterpillars.  Then again, this same guy had a rooster burned
at the stake for laying an egg later that week.

Just for your... amusement, although it is true.

Bogdan

"The funniest jokes are entirely true."
- -Anon

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