Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Oh How the Times Have Changed

So I was working on Extractions or Indexing as they now call them. Where you transfer marriage certificates and Census records to computer. So I started working on Marriage records and one of the questions on the marriage certificate is: "Is he an imbecile, feeble minded, idiotic, insane, or under guardianship as a person of unsound mind? WOW! I couldn't stop laughing!!! All of these terms are very much socially unacceptable and very derogatory to refer to someone as. Our society has definitely changed a ton in the last 100 years. I am glad I didn't live in that time period, I am sure I would have had to write "yes" for possibly being insane. LOL!

2 comments:

the ginabean said...

Ha! And I'm horrible, because the first thing I thought was, "Most GUYS are at least ONE of the aforementioned." Not that I don't have my own issues to work on...

Annie Hall said...

HA HA Lorrin Skulls that you called him all of those things!