RE: Wearing Radium-Dial Watches - Hazards?

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Karin stated:

> That's such a great set up line I can't resist !!  "Without issue" in
> legal terms usually is taken to mean that you have not produced any
> children ... maybe these watches are a novel form of birth control.
> Just curious - do you come from a large family?    :-)  

Yup .. I have 3 brothers and I have 2 sons. Perhaps one could 
hypothesize that there is a correlation between exposure to radium 
and giving birth to males! :>

Sandy Perle
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