Re: The family in the cellar

In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful Keith F. Lynch 
declared:
> netcat <netcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> What I don't get is the _mother_.  There's no way she lived there
>> all these years and did not know.
> 
> Not everyone is a snoop.  Presumably she trusted her son and respected
> his privacy.

It wasn't her son -- it was her husband, who had her daughter 
chained up in the basement.

If your daughter disappears and a bunch of children, who aren't 
yours, start to turn up around the house, you have reason to snoop, 
no matter how much you respect privacy.

-- 
Sean O'Hara <http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com>
Doctor: Never guess, unless you have to; there's enough uncertainty 
in the universe as it is.
    -Doctor Who