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Shown in his bleached white boutique near the Palais Royale, the line featured sweatshirts done in a patchwork of recycled denim, vests reworked from trouser legs, glen plaid pants made from old stocks of 1950's American polyester (yum) and for those who can't bear the thought of that, spanking new suits in baby soft Panama cotton.

That said, Dr Marjorie Gunnoe, a professor of psychology at Calvin College, and her colleague, Carrie Lea Mariner published a study in 1997 that concluded that, "for most children, claims that spanking teaches aggression seem unfounded".

In fact, the only group that was starkly different in its views on spanking was the minority who reported not having been spanked themselves as children; in this group, 50% said that spanking a child was never appropriate.

This, despite numerous studies proving that spanking one's children does not fix bad behavior, does not make the child a better human (just the opposite) and only dramatically degrades the parent-child relationship, pretty much forever.

When you do that, you probably ought not mention that spanking is banned in 29 countries and restricted in many more.

We may disagree with the practice of spanking, and prefer non-violent means of achieving similar ends, but we can easily understand that spanking is moral in the eyes of those who do it.

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Mrs. Buckner heard her say, "Remember, Daniel, Grandma comes from a generation that spanks!" Joan B. Kelly was passing through the walkway between the World Trade Center towers when she heard someone whistling what she described as "a beautiful rendition" of a Beethoven symphony.

Suddenly back on the table like a Frankenstein monster getting struck by a miracle bolt of lightning, all due to the fact that the GOP just realized if they don't try to make nice with the new multicultural majority that spanked them so hard in the 2012 election, they'll vanish faster than an ice shelf in Greenland.

And finally, all the above is almost moot, given the comical rise of Android, something that is spanking both Cupertino and Redmond alike.

Marina Lutz acknowledges that she has no memory of sexual abuse, although states that he spanked her bare bottom "what felt like almost every day" and would massage her back at night, hands straying uncomfortably down her back.

The next ball yields a minor lbw appeal, and the one after that is spanked back high back down the ground for four more.

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