----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 5:39 PM Subject: Legal Logic ???
---- snip ---- > > Last, but not least, a Scandinavian man named Robert has filed for a > 'divorce' from his son. The boy, he claims, was actually fathered by a > neighbor named Steven. Robert requested that the judge rename the boy > Stevenson. It's a valid request. My inlaws are Swedish, and until not that long ago, the surname of all Swedish children was the first name of their father, with the ending of "son" or "dottir", whichever the case may be. This custom is still largely practised in Sweden today, and I understand it if a man does not want to give his name to children that aren't his. Furthermore, the man named Robert could not have filed for divorce from his son, because it is NOT his son in the first place. Two other northern countries, Iceland and �land, use the father's first name as a surname exclusively. That's why the telephone books of those countries are sorted by the first name. > > These problems don't exist in Africa. And some call THEM a backward > people? > > What is *logical* seems to be, like beauty, only in the eyes of the > beholder. > > I sure hope Greece doesn't try to take away the name Arachne. > > <><> Bob <><> > > > - > > ________________________________________________________________ > Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today > Only $9.95 per month! > Visit www.juno.com
