[Phys-L] Family Values

[betwys1 at SBCGLOBAL.NET (Brian Whatcott)]

At 11:10 AM 12/15/2004, you wrote:
> > button phobia is considered weird.  Do you know anyone who admits to
> > having a button phobia?  I know two such people.
>
> I had a cat who, after a serious illness, would not touch his
> formerly favorite canned food for years.
> --
> Clarence Bennett


Aversion to foods associated with poisoning-like illness
is an extremely favorable survival quality, in my view.

Suspicions about the high suicide rates (x3 normal) associated
with young women of the Moslem faith surfaced in England after
it became known that there is a weed with lethal though bitter-tasting
qualities known to people of that ethnicity.

The herb in question is well-masked by spicy foods. There is a
cultural adherence to family values among them: specifically that
daughters who have associated with (esp.) married men dishonor the
family - with  lethal consequences, so that in recorded cases, such
  unfortunates have been poiisoned, garrotted or smothered by
their mothers, who enlisted siblings' help.

Brian W


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!