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Originally Posted by orlok
A stretch, but...if a man was lost at sea, say, and after a number of years declared legally dead (after something like 7 years?), then when he miraculously returned alive, he could divorce his "widow" and marry her sister.
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Very nice. A very solid point to orlok.
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Originally Posted by Shayne Parkinson
This is a real stretch, but "widow" can also mean a woman abandoned by or separated from her husband. The older meaning of "grass widow" was a discarded mistress. A man could certainly marry the sister of such an unfortunate woman.
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Yes, I'll give a point for this one too.
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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
 Aw gee, don't I have two points? (Not that it matters as Shayne is still ahead!) |
Quite right, my mistake!
Shayne Parkinson: 3.5 points
orlok: 3 points
Bookpossum: 2 points
Bilbo1967: 1 point
Glorfindel: 0.5 points
I declare Shayne Parkinson the winner.
For 1. I was thinking of the case where a man marries a widow, who could then be described as being
his widow, rather than just any widow. After she dies, he could marry her sister.
For 4 I was hoping for "If I did that my mum would send me straight upstairs to bed", the last half of a poem from Spike Milligan's "
A Children's Treasury of Milligan", although I see I did get one word wrong in my quotation (
his head, not
its head).
For 5 I didn't have anything in mind in particular, so I was pleased to get some suggestions!
Over to Shayne for the next quiz!