Adam Whyte-Settlar wrote:

> "Alan Hardie" <axhardie@clara.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:p2gevv0f69f4nm1jillr51neqm34ss4ulq@4ax.com...
> > On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 21:12:49 GMT, russj41@concentric.net (MacHamish)
> > wrote:
> >
> > >On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 10:02:45 +1300, "Adam Whyte-Settlar"
> > >>PS - did you know it is illegal for a woman in Texas to own more than
> five
> > >>vibrators for example?
> > >>What's all that about?
> > >
> > >It has to do with the legal and proper disposal of batteries.  The city
> > >dumps down there in Texas were filling up with the damn things, and they
> > >were leaking noxious chemicals into the water table.  Next question.
> >
> > Okey doke.
> >
> > Why couldn't they have 10 vibrators and one battery?
> >
> Seems reasonable.
> The first vibrator was steam-powered.
> It was used by doctors in the treatment of 'hysteria' in women.
> The method was to induce a 'mental apoplexism' following which the patient
> apparently felt much better - for a while.
> A W-S

Dorty buggers those doctors!!

Tom