Hey, kids, go give someone lockjaw, why don't ya?

[msmcknittington]

I was browsing through the 1876 Peterson's Magazine that's on Google Books, because I enjoy that sort of thing. I ran across this, and it was so bizarre I had to share it.


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That's right. It's advocating that you let your kids hide under a sofa or table, with a long, sharp pin, and stab at the legs and feet of the people who come to visit them. What the hell? In what time or place was it appropriate to stab your guests with a pin?

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[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

C'mon kids! Stab great Aunt Ethel with the old rusty hat pin y'all found lying in the gutter in front of our house the other day. She needs to go sometime so we can get that lovely inheritance!