FabSwingers.com forum: If you only have 1 eye, don't shag pigs !

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Well at least not in early America !

Extract from Bill Bryson's 'Made in America'

" The Puritan age was, to be sure, one in which even the smallest of transgressions - or even sometimes no transgressions at all - could be met with the severest of penalties.

Adultery, illegitimacy and masturbation were all at times capital offences in New England.

When a one-eyed pig was born in New Haven, the magistrates cast around for an explanation and lighted on the hapless George Spencer, who also had just the one eye.

Questioned as to the possibility of bestiality, the frightened Spencer confessed, but then recanted.

Under Connecticut law to convict Spencer of bestiality required the testimony of two witnesses.

So keen were the magistrates to hang him that they admitted the pig as one witness and his retracted confession as another."

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Did you swallow the complete works of Bill Bryson today?"

nah - i was actually looking for an excerpt from one of his books where he talks about blackpool.

i have the book at home but being the impatient sod i am at times, i was looking online for some of his excerpts / quotes hoping to find it.

never found the 1 on blackpool but i did find a couple that intrigued me so thought i'd post um