[Sca-cooks] looking in the freezer...

Laura C. Minnick lcm at jeffnet.org
Tue Aug 24 20:57:37 PDT 2004


At 08:39 PM 8/24/2004, you wrote:
>Lainie commented:
>>Anyway, The Red-Headed Norman League was a feeble reference to the
>>Arthur Conan-Doyle Sherlock Holmes story about the Red-Headed League. Except
>>that there isn't a bank robbery involved. ;-)
>Maybe. Maybe not. Perhaps you ought to ask the Anglo-Saxons. :-)
>
>Stefan

No Stefan, you're confusing that with highway-robbery. And that is for the 
local Sheriff to deal with. But what the Normans did in England was simply 
a matter of enforcement of an in absentio title transfer. Wouldn't have 
been nearly such a flap if there hadn't been squatters involved...

;-D)

'Lainie
-still hungry
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