Attempts to resolve the Quandary:
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"Did you stop beating your wife before or after you started drinking?" (an improvement on the classic wife-beating question) , the clever prosecutor suggestively asked the teetotaling defendant on cross-examination, shrewdly judging by his phrenological profile that he lacked autochthonous restraint, and would explode on the stand, creating a negative impression with the jury.
(by mtc)
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As the autochthonous people of the plains became teetotalers, many settled down to farm the land, but the local ranchers and their lawyers wanted compensation for past losses and developed a way of using phrenology as a type of lie detector test for asking the wife-beating question, “When did you stop rustling our cattle?”.
(by wordgirl)