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Twinkle · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2004 12:35 pm

Tailseh wrote:

fzun wrote:

Some stupid laws from my state, Florida:

:: Women may be fined for falling asleep under a hair dryer, as can the salon owner.
:: A special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.
:: If an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.
:: It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.
:: Men may not be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.
:: Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.
:: It is illegal to skateboard without a license.
:: You may not fart in a public place after 6 P.M. on Thursdays.
:: It is considered an offense to shower naked.

I suggest you all go to Dumb Laws

You're supposed to shower with something on..?

Shower cap?

Asthaloth · **Posts:** 4284 **Joined:** Mon May 31, 2004 4:48 am

Silja wrote:

Setekh wrote:

Silja wrote:

# The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
# The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

*giggle*

actually thats wrong (the second one)
its "the average human will eat 8 LB's of live insect in their liftime.
thats a whole lot mroe spiders than 8.

The spider is not an insect, as I've been told many times in school, it is an arachnid.

insectoid, to be bug ugly.
yeah its not an insect, but for the purpose of the "fact" it counts among the eight LBs youll eat..

oh and the galaxy is more along the lines of..
279,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
(279 thousand million, million, million) meters.
not sure where i messed up the first time though...

Sapphire Faerie · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2004 10:45 pm

Twinkle wrote:

Tailseh wrote:

fzun wrote:

Some stupid laws from my state, Florida:

:: Women may be fined for falling asleep under a hair dryer, as can the salon owner.
:: A special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.
:: If an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.
:: It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.
:: Men may not be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.
:: Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.
:: It is illegal to skateboard without a license.
:: You may not fart in a public place after 6 P.M. on Thursdays.
:: It is considered an offense to shower naked.

I suggest you all go to Dumb Laws

You're supposed to shower with something on..?

Shower cap?

I shower with my bracelets on =P
Only because there's like 35 of them, and I can't be arsed to keep taking them off and putting them back on all the time.

Tailseh · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:44 am

Lubbock County law: (where i live)
You may not drive with alcohol in a reach of an arm, including in someone's bloodstream.
oO
I found alot more when I was chatting with apricus

AFI_Sorrow · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:06 am

About the spider thing real quick...it's not true. It got started by I believe a college student who wanted to see how quick a rumor could get started online that was so unbelievably not true. And sure enough, years later the whole world thinks its a fact. Pretty clever, eh?

In New Jersey, where I live, it's illegal to frown at a cop.

Everyone, happy faces!

Asthaloth · **Posts:** 4284 **Joined:** Mon May 31, 2004 4:48 am

unless youre "friend" is a coroner (insects have an exoskeleton that is highly resistnat to the corrosive acids and general gook of your stomach)

Sapphire Faerie · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:27 pm

AFI_Sorrow wrote:

About the spider thing real quick...it's not true. It got started by I believe a college student who wanted to see how quick a rumor could get started online that was so unbelievably not true. And sure enough, years later the whole world thinks its a fact. Pretty clever, eh?

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm

Apparently so, but it was a common misconception even before she started it, as it was listed in a book published in 1954 as a misconception.

Ixistant · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:42 pm

OK. Some weird and wonderful laws from the UK.

Quote:

Excluding Sundays, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.

I'm never going to York!

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It is illegal for a Member of Parliament to enter the House of Commons wearing a full suit of armour.

Yea, y'no, they do it all the time

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It is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle.

I gotta try this one out!

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Committing suicide is classified as a capital crime.

Yea. What are they going to do, throw them in jail?

Quote:

A license is required to keep a lunatic.

Remember, a lunatic's for life, not just for christmas.

There are quite a few dumb Scottish Laws (Scotland is special as it gets it's own set of laws. We got foxhunting banned before England! Wooooo!) but I can't find anywebsites that tell you them. dumblaws.com should have a section just for scots law.

happysmileyfungirl · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:40 pm

Satan Claus wrote:

Quote:

Excluding Sundays, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.

I'm never going to York!

I wondered why we cut our holiday to York short...

I used to know a lot more about Scotland but I can't seem to find them but in Britain sticking a stamp of the queen upside down is considered treason o.0 Also, with the exception of carrots, most goods may not be sold on Sunday.

on_diet_cat · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:59 pm

Some funny laws from my country.
1) Cats are not allow as pets if you brought your apartment from the government.

2) Chewing gums are not allow everywhere. It is illege to selling them too.

3) You are not allow to walk around your house naked.

4) Failure to flush a public toilet is an offend.

5) If you are convicted of littering three times, you will have to clean the streets on Sundays with a bib on saying, "I am a litterer." This will then be broadcasted on the local news.

6) Bungee jumping is illegal.

flumpy · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 2:24 pm

All English males over the age 14 are to carry out 2 or so hours of longbow practice a week supervised by the local clergy.

It is illegal for a woman to be topless in public except as a clerk in a tropical fish store. :lol:

DM was on fire! · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:27 pm

Here's a law for Greenville, SC I didn't know about.

- The drinking age on Furman University campus is 60 years old.

And the drinking age on the Bob Jones University campus is N/A, because there prohibit drinking. :lol:

And here's one for Spartanburg, where I used to live:

- Eating watermelons in the Magnolia Street cemetery is forbidden.

Twinkle · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:27 pm

What amuses me about all these is how they got passed in the first place.

gundam_kola01 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:19 am

Fact #1: The sun rises from the EAST and sets on the WEST! :lol:

Fact #2: Hmm... Law in my country. No chewing gums! :roll:

Twizzler0171 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:23 pm

Fact: Light is intelligent. When someone wanted it to be a particle, it was a particle, and when someone wanted it to be a ray it was a ray. Interesting, eh?

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