>>Unless his wife is also unfaithful, he should know exactly how many women will be shot and when.
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>I don't understand why anyone will be shot, if the mayor said something which everybody knew anyway. What new information is he giving?
Or perhaps the men will start to comment about the mayor's remark, and compare numbers: "What does that guy mean, ONE cheating wife? This place has forty of them!" Since the other one knows about only 39 cheating wives, he can conclude that his own wife cheats him.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
