We've had the origin of handicap, now for the origin of rule of thumb.
It was the rule applied to the beating of one's wife that it was deemed
legal if it were done with a rod no thicker than a man's thumb.
Larry
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> Isn't the rule of thumb in these situations merely - "Let the Crips go
> first"?
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> Bob Williams-Findlay
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