Cotton Mather in his book "The history of New England," written at the end of the seventeenth century, describes how a Weymouth man, who had been a lifelong Sodomist, was first made to watch as 3 sheep, 2 sows, 2 heifers and a cow, all of which had been his sexual partners, were hanged. It seems that in this puritanical world that the animals involved were just as guilty "before God" as the man himself. He was executed in the same manner shortly afterwards.

See, and here I've been thinking all my life that heifers ARE cows.

Are these the same folks we call the Founders of the United States, especially at Thanksgiving? Explains a lot, really.

I wonder if hanging your lunch makes it inedible? I mean, as opposed to other forms of slaughter? Okay, I know nothing about slaughter. It's got to be an odd sight, though, a cow hanging from a noose.

I wonder if the offenders, having taken their punishment, were buried in the church graveyard.

Sometimes, tweaking Cotton Mather is the most fun a girl can have.

I've been told that fear of breeding "monsters" was part of the reason for the prohibition against beastality.

Maybe that's part of the reason for executing the critters?

My guess about the labor law is that computer workers are exempt from minimum wage and overtime protections just like other professionals (lawyers & doctors) but only if they're comparably skilled professionals. A mere data entry worker, on the other hand, should be treated like workers who are protected by labor laws.

I'm COMMing this whole mule-fucking conversation, you funny, funny freakos.

See, and here I've been thinking all my life that heifers ARE cows.

Heifers are, like, prepubescent cows.

I was once attacked by a heifer who was going into heat for the first time....

A heifer bit my sister once....

A heifer once bit my sister. t /kneejerk

[edit: Damn you, wee Frank!]