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To: familyop

“Tie ‘em to the carttail,”

Now WTF does that mean?


43 posted on 04/06/2010 1:17:37 AM PDT by Old Seadog (Always do a little more than is expected, and someday .....it will be expected.)
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To: Old Seadog

It’s what Protestant (Puritan, Huguenot, and the like) colonists did with morally loose and wandering Quaker women, when they got into trouble outside of their own communities. They tied them to the “carttail” (back of a wagon), whipped them, and sent them out of town. Those colonies were rather rough on crimes against families. For another example, they executed sodomites by hanging.


44 posted on 04/06/2010 1:42:57 AM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96)
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To: Old Seadog

Little history there, and I was half joking. There’s actually one contemporary Quaker sect that is more morally conservative than the original if not more so than many other American religious groups.

Oddly enough, many Americans confuse most Quakers (the libertine kind) for Amish or Mormon folks. [Must be the old fashioned hat on the oatmeal box.]


46 posted on 04/06/2010 1:47:13 AM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96)
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