"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