Back before tabloids focused on celebrities that nobody has heard of, they focused on the important stories like...nuns whipping boys. This front page of the Mirror from August 16, 1939 isn't very readable, but it's nice to know that while war was about to break out in Europe, the Mirror had its priorities in order.So what sort of whipping was this? I mean, surely nuns whipping boys couldn't have been so unusual in 1939 that a run-of-the-mill thrashing merited front-page status.
I like to imagine a stern French nun with a martinet and a smart-assed early adolescent. Our impertinent boy tried to lead a revolt against mandatory Mass attendance but was deserted by his classmates to face alone the wrath of Sister Mathilde. She took down his short pants and applied that martinet with such brutality that it left his classmates fearful of ever misbehaving again. Perhaps the boy's mother was shocked at the horde of angry welts left on her son's bottom and thighs while his father thought the old nun was well within her rights to maintain order. Soon the community was divided over whether Sister Mathilde had acted appropriately or gone beyond common decency until one of the largest tabloids in the country was asking its readers to judge...
Just a thought.
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Natty, I like a girl with a good fantasy life.
It's a shame A isn't there to bring your fantasies to life.
Warm hugs,
Paul.
Oh, lol, if anything I have waayy too much of a fantasy life. And much of the time, A. matches my fantasies or even exceeds them. Our phone calls are much fun. ;-)
I should note, though, that even when A. is here (which should be soon now) I'm often too sick to do much in the way of acting out our fantasy life. Which probably fuels my fantasy life all the more... ;-)
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