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To: blam
Everybody needs a signet ring, IMHO. With public education being the way it is, people will probably soon forget how to sign their names.

"Witness my hand and seal."
5 posted on 02/08/2004 5:03:23 PM PST by Unknowing (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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To: Unknowing
"Everybody needs a signet ring, IMHO. With public education being the way it is, people will probably soon forget how to sign their names.

Yup. Our tradition of reading 'wills' out loud has it's origins in 500-600AD England when almost no-one could read or write...even the king.

6 posted on 02/08/2004 6:17:44 PM PST by blam
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