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- From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
- Subject: Re: The Scarlet Letter
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.181434.5423@netcom.com>
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- Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia
- References: <28405@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:14:34 GMT
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- In article <28405@castle.ed.ac.uk> Jeremy Henderson writes:
-
- >On the off chance that the AppleOfOurEye might like to accompany us
- >on trips abroad, I called the Passport Office to ask about adding her
- >name to my passport. Apparently this is impossible because a) her
- >mother is Greek and b) we are not married, and hence she is not a
- >British Citizen. The passport people suggested that she could become a
- >British Citizen by ``registration'', but when I called the Naturalization
- >Office (or whatever it's called), they told me that she couldn't register
- >as a British citizen because she was born ``out of wedlock'' (their words,
- >not mine). The only thing to do was to get married and ``legitimise'' the
- >birth. Now I may be wrong, but I thought that Queen Victoria had been
- >off the throne a good many years now, so I'm surprised to hear this
- >terminology, not to mention the disgusting holier-than-thou morality it
- >conceals.
-
- It could be worse, Jeremy. Until 1971 it was mandatory in Delaware for
- the hospital of record to stamp "Complete and Utter Bastard" on the
- birth certificate of children born into this circumstance.
-
- >===Jeremy Henderson===jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=
-
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