Re: Informix customer support outside U.S

Salem witches were normal people like you and me (ok - maybe like you). It was the teenage girls who accused them of witchcraft who had issues - probably those associate with that age. cheers j. (resident of Danvers MA - formerly known as Salem Village) -.-- --- ..- / -. . . -.. / - --- / --. . - / .- / .-.. .. ..-. . .-.-.- / ... --- / -.. --- / .. .-.-.- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 12:50 PM Subject: Re: Informix customer support outside U.S > "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message > news:pan.2003.10.27.18.17.36.364211.10594@bloomberg.net... > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:54:20 -0500, Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > > > > John Carlson wrote: > > > > > >> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:44:34 +0000, Obnoxio The Clown > <obnoxio@hotmail.com> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >>>More like Norfolk. And Good! > > >> > > >> Norfolk, Virginia????? That'd be more like the Middle Atlantic instead > of > > >> the Middle East . . . . .8-) > > > > > > This is probably going to shock you into a feeling of numbness, but > Norfolk, > > > Virginia was actually named after a place that's not even in America! I > was > > > talking about the pretty one, full of inbred East Anglians. :o) > > > > OOOOhhh! So, that's where the Virginian red-neck tendency towards > in-breeding > > came from! > > Actually, there is a theory, woven into a novel called The Dancing Men by > Duncan Kyle, which holds that the so-called Witches of Salem were > descendants of emigrants from a few particularly remote East Anglian (an > area of England for our American readers) villages, and that they were > actually suffering from a form of Huntingdon's Disease common to those > villages, the hereditary disease having in part been encouraged by the lack > of opportunities to inter-breed due to the remote locations. Some of the > characteristics of chorea, of which Huntingdon's Disease is one variant, are > involuntary movements which resemble dancing (the word chorea is itself > derived from the Latin for dancing). > > > sending to informix-list