Beat Your Wife Legally, huh?

“Rule of Thumb” did the expression really come from an old English law where you could legally beat your wife?

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  • quepasakoolj18

    Hey Marina, sweet video as always :) I’ll be your valentine if you want!

  • jsmooth5atl

    I Choo Choo Choose You :mrgreen:

  • bigboy88

    :cool: I think that’s a dumb rule if I had a wife I would not beat cuzz I love&charish her

  • highvoltedge

    hell darlin i dont have a date for valentines either, matter of fact i havent had one in awhile lol great site mariana

  • StylinAzn

    Great Video!!! :mrgreen:

  • http://therist.hi5.com therist

    Hey candy, wanna see Macedonia? Pick me up for Valentine! :cool:

  • http://myspace.com/mickeyherrera elmic101

    :twisted: Excellent!!!

  • javajeff

    So how many of you measured your “Lower” pollex, digitus primus, digitus? Mine is 1 1/2. Fun web site. I only beat my wife when she asks me to.

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    that’s one SUPERFINE poster Dear HotForWords Teacher :!: :arrow:

  • tedt

    Democracy is nice….. :wink:

    Btw, I was a bad student !!! :lol:

  • tedt

    I could not follow you to the Maxim session :!:

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    Mountain Lions native of the americas

  • leonard

    Rated all the measurements possible……I would never think to beat a wife. I would eat a beet. A card sent in the mail and do you still need a date? :???: :smile: :wink: I bet you think I’m crazy or what? … you are the best

  • dash

    Sorry Marina, but a thumb itself was the linear unit, and it was not the lower phalanx (kootje), but the upper (bovenste) phalanx.
    Are you letting your students down :sad: Or is it an intelligence test for your pupils :smile: ?

    [Duim] (lengtemaat)
    Duim, oude Nederlandse lengtemaat die ongeveer gelijk is aan de breedte van het bovenste kootje van de duim van een volwassen man. Een duim heeft afhankelijk van de streek een andere lengte.Amsterdamse duim is 2,57393636 cm (11 Amsterdamse duim is 1 Amsterdamse voet)Franse duim is 2,7 cmGelderse of Nijmeegse duim is 2,7 cmHondsbosse en Rijpse duim is 2,4 cmRijnlandse duim is 2,61 cmBij de invoering van het Nederlands metriek stelsel in 1820 werd de duim gelijk gesteld aan een centimeter, echter in 1870 werd de duim afgeschaft.

    http://www.babylon.com/definition/duim_(lengtemaat)/Dutch

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    [CcAaRrdD] :???: ["Don't let the milk come to a boil !"]…an inch of rule…who’s your wife that you want to use the ruler on ? :lol:

    I’m still waiting for the card

    … :roll: I’m just [exercising my mOrAl plights]… :smile: …good job to your prinCible or parts of princibal

    whats with your spelling :twisted:

    …hope your move is a going [WeLL] :lol: mush with the room(oral) :cool:

  • iluv2cutfarts

    Bah! How funny! I was just writing about this earlier tonight, and here it is! I distinctly remember now that this was my very first lesson from Marina. I think I was scared off when she started asking me if I had been good, and then started beating the ruler on her palm!

    :lol:

  • iluv2cutfarts

    P.S. 3:27 to 3:30 is my favorite part because Marina is sexy and silly all at once!

    :D

  • Camp Kohler – Sacramento CA

    Your example actually disproves what you say! The distance betweeen your thumb joints is way over an inch. Camp Kohler must investigate! (Say, that’s catchy—I’d better write that down.)

    If I measure my own thumb, the distance between joints exceeds one inch by at least 25%. However if I measure the width of the joint with a micrometer, it is almost exactly one inch. Another mystery correctly solved.

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