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   From: wizwom@gmail.com   
      
   On 5/17/2010 5:58 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
   > On 5/17/2010 2:32 PM, Beowulf Bolt wrote:   
   >> At last he isn't still ranting about the Death of Civility. Count   
   >> your blessings.   
   >>   
   > Berating others for their lack of civility is, of course, so civil.   
      
   I thought the proper punishment was to beat them with a cane.. On the   
   Senate floor.  Or something like that.   
      
   I'd have to brush up on my 19th century history, it's been that long   
   since we had a "civil" society.   
      
   Interesting that that's about when it stopped being polite to duel.   
      
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