Some Harvard men, stalwart and hairy, Drank up several bottles of sherry; In the Yard around three They were shrieking with glee: `Come on out, we are burning a fairy!' -- Edward Gorey

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Some people in my country, even in the government, are capable of minding their business. A couple of friends of mine had rather conventional ideas of marriage (two sexes, monogamy, etc.), but being atheists & anarchists refrained from involving the church & state in the matter. When she took a job and used her husband's last name, she received a form letter from the Social Security Administration warning her that a person named such and so was using her number. She wrote on the back "I find it convenient to use the last name of the man I am living with", signed it, and sent it back. The office sent her a new card.

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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