Re: Why do people still get married?

On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:25:20 -0700 (PDT), Dana <dcarpend@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote, perhaps among other things:

>On May 12, 4:50 pm, Rick B. <deepst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article <billvan-A31F54.13094212052...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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bill van
>> says...
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>> >In article <9rlg2412e3qghqq8kaga5v775dlqck1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > Neal Eckhardt <neckha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> >> On Fri, 9 May 2008 20:43:14 -0700 (PDT), Curse Of Millhaven
>> >> <millha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> >> >I wrote up a will and made my sister the executor.
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>> >> Who is she going to have to kill?
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>> >Make it open-ended. The fewer beneficiaries remain alive, the bigger =
her
>> >share.
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>> "Millhaven's Tontine Will." I like it.
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>I was just thinking the word "tontine!"  Good to know I'm not the only
>one who knows it.  It's so hard having a big vocabulary.  One knows so
>many words that are hellishly hard to work into a conversation.
>
>Dana "like 'retromingent'"

Of course we know the word:

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_172.html
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