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From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Finally! A *reason* to have sex
Date: 9 Mar 1994 06:42:31 GMT

At AFU Toronto II, Paul Tomblin brought up a story that none of the other native Torontonians had heard of. The story was that a contest had been set up some time before in Toronto, wherein a large cash prize would be given to the woman who had the most children over a specified, reasonably lengthy, period of time (game theorists will recognize this as a "dollar auction" situation).

My library has finally coughed up a nugget supporting Mr. Tomblin. From _The Ultimate Irrelevant Encyclopedia_, by Hartston and Dawson (ISBN 0-04-827111-X), under "bequests": 

        [...] Rather more was demanded from anyone wishing to
        inherit from Charles Vance Millar, who died in Canada
        in 1927.  Among a number of unusual bequests he left a
        substantial prize to be awarded to the Toronto mother
        who gave birth to the most children in the ten-year
        period following his demise.  The race was close and
        frantic with $568,106 finally shared out among four
        mothers, each of whom had produced nine healthy
        offspring.  Consolation prizes were awarded to two
        applicants with ten births; one was considered unworthy
        of the top honour because five of her children had been
        illegitimate, while the other runner-up counted four
        stillbirths among her ten.

Brian "but then they were fined for littering" Scearce -- 

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