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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:41 pm
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If it's clean enough for MSNBC, it's good enough for here. Wink

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15754563/

How the Pilgrims shaped our sex lives Shocked

Our forefathers bequeathed us with some serious hang-ups

"And on his farm he had a sheep..."
In practice, though, even the Pilgrims did not typically enforce death for sex. In fact, only one person was put to death for a sex crime in the colony, poor Thomas Graunger, a teenage farm boy who, perhaps flush with the surge of hormones, turned to those he knew best. His story could make you look at the Thanksgiving turkey in a whole new way.

Governor William Bradford recounted the tale:

Ã¢â‚¬Å“He was this year detected of buggery, and indicted for the same, with a mare, a cow, two goats, five sheep, two calves and a turkey Ã¢â‚¬Â¦ He was first discovered by one that accidentally saw his lewd practice towards the mare. (I forbear particulars.) Being upon it examined and committed, in the end he not only confessed the fact with that beast at that time, but sundry times before and at several times with all the rest of the forenamed in his indictment.Ã¢â‚¬Â?

As punishment, he was forced to watch all the animals killed. At first, the court had a problem figuring out which sheep Thomas favored Ã¢â‚¬â€? sheep looking pretty much alike Ã¢â‚¬â€? but Thomas helpfully pointed out his sex partners. After being killed, they were buried in a pit, and then Thomas himself was hanged. If you wonder what the animals did to deserve it, Leviticus was cited by the court: Ã¢â‚¬Å“If a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast.Ã¢â‚¬Â?

Though Thomas was the only person executed for a sex crime, punishments were still brutal. Even for lesser crimes, like fornication, you could receive whippings, brandings, wearing a Hawthorne-esque scarlet letter, time in the stocks, fines and banishment. Yet if court records are any indication, there was no shortage of colonists willing to tempt fate.

CONTINUED: Give thanks

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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject: Re: A very "Bushy" Thanksgiving.....
Good god. _________________ "Well, I gotta go...Yeh I'm running out of change"

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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:43 pm Post subject: Re: A very "Bushy" Thanksgiving.....
I'm stickin' to pasta tonight....just to be on the safe side. _________________ "All facts go to clearly prove that Shades is a thrice-cursed traitor & mentally deranged person steeped in inveterate enmity toward mankind"

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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:44 pm Post subject: Re: A very "Bushy" Thanksgiving.....
ok who let bushy be a pilgrim? lol

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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: Re: A very "Bushy" Thanksgiving.....
ROFL...I wonder what he would answer when asked, "Why didn't you shut the door, ya' born is a barn?"...lol

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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject: Re: A very "Bushy" Thanksgiving.....
- Shadow_Bshwackr ROFL...I wonder what he would answer when asked, "Why didn't you shut the door, ya' born is a barn?"...lol Likely conceived in one as well. _________________ "All facts go to clearly prove that Shades is a thrice-cursed traitor & mentally deranged person steeped in inveterate enmity toward mankind"

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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:38 am Post subject: Re: A very "Bushy" Thanksgiving.....
-S- I screw pasta............ Hammer

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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:31 am
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So..., it's wrong?

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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject: Re: A very "Bushy" Thanksgiving.....
-S- Hey...its news to me too. Ever hear of "Penne and Sausage ". ..?? You bring the penne and I will supply the Sausa........opps...... Hammer

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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:43 pm Post subject: Re: A very "Bushy" Thanksgiving.....
And to think they pay good money to watch that stuff in Tijuana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! _________________ " Refuel my plane and load my guns" Hiroyoshi Nishizawa " The Devil of Rabaul"

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