Re: Why do people still get married?

"Les Albert" <lalbert1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:25:20 -0700 (PDT), Dana <dcarpend@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
>>On May 12, 4:50 pm, Rick B. <deepst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> In article <billvan-A31F54.13094212052...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, 
>>> bill van
>>> says...
>>> > Neal Eckhardt <neckha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> >> 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.
>
>>> >> Who is she going to have to kill?
>
>>> >Make it open-ended. The fewer beneficiaries remain alive, the bigger 
>>> >her
>>> >share.
>
>>> "Millhaven's Tontine Will." I like it.
>
>>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'"
>
>
> A tontine is the plot of a the 1966 movie, "The Wrong Box", with Peter
> Cook, Dudley Moore, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine.  It's a very
> funny film, and Peter Sellers does a cameo role that is worth the
> price of admission.  Highly recommended if you like British comedy.

A tontine was also used in an episode of MASH.

Lisa Ann