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Old 06-23-2009, 04:43 AM   #102
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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967 View Post
Isn't this where the origins of the phrase 'rule of thumb' lie. I have heard that it was legal to beat your wife so long as the stick you did it with was no thicker than your thumb.

Or is this one of those apocryphal, almost entirely untrue, stories?
I'd heard the same - but Wikipedia says it's apocryphal.
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