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Alabama just made interstate marriages legal two or three years ago.

NO, I am NOT kidding. And the vote just barely passed. (Just a wee-bit over 50%)

 

You live with me, and I with you,
And you will be my POSSLQ.
I'll be your friend and so much more;
That's what a POSSLQ is for.

(For the uninitiated, POSSLQ is pronounced posselque...can you quess what it means and who immortalized it?)

 

In Georgia as recently as 1995 (I stopped caring once I moved) adultery was a felony. Sodomy (which covered a very wide range of conduct between consenting adults, married or not) was also a felony. The statutory minimum penalty exceeded, by several years, the time you could get for a bestiality conviction. No, I'm not kidding.

The first, last, and only time I ever heard of an arrest on this particular charge was 1994.. and I got some really funny looks at the jail when I handed over the booking sheet.

"No, I don't generally hunt for sodomy arrests.. this one was a warrant."

 

Oh, I believe you. Other gems still on the books in Massachusetts include:

Adultery

Fornication

Sodomy

Blasphemy


Bruce

 

Ah! A piece of trivia that for some reason I remember -- or think I do

Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters. If I'm not mistaken this was a census bureau term that came up in 1980 or so, and was a politically correct way of indicating an unmarried live-together couple. To my knowledge, the term did not apply to, say, roommates that had no romantic interest.

 

That's right, the gubmint invented it, but:

though hard to
show,on
theInternet (evenso);
will you be my posslq?
(don'tyouknowit)
was written by a lower-case poet,who
fractured the gramma
but not the drama.

 

It's the only lower-case poet I can think of at the moment, so here it goes:

e.e. cummings?


Bruce

 

Yep. The Internet associative memory was not very good in this case. I found dozens of instances of "Will you be my posslq?" but I couldn't find a single one that attributed it back to e.e. cummings.

 

Oh, for the good old days! No jest intended!

Russell

 

Russell,

Some good old fire and brimestone will be needed!

John

 

No doubt about it, John.