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Posted by Sigismund on August 1, 2010, at 21:39:58
In reply to Re: America » ed_uk2010, posted by Sigismund on August 1, 2010, at 21:32:49
Speaking about airports and airtravel, there was one here.
A man on a flight was asked by the man next to him to hold a parcel while he went to the toilet. The first man said 'OK, I hope it's not a bomb', and was arrested on arrival. For lese majeste. It's a bit like blocking people for their attitude.
Makes me feel at home it does and reminds me of my childhood.
Posted by Phillipa on August 1, 2010, at 21:40:08
In reply to Re: America » ed_uk2010, posted by Sigismund on August 1, 2010, at 21:32:49
Sigi only you could have found these they are absolutely hysterically funny!!!! PJ
Posted by Sigismund on August 1, 2010, at 21:50:07
In reply to Re: America » Sigismund, posted by Phillipa on August 1, 2010, at 21:40:08
Do you have a favourite?
The no mouse trap without a hunting licence was pretty cool.
Posted by Phillipa on August 1, 2010, at 22:08:47
In reply to Re: America » ed_uk2010, posted by Sigismund on August 1, 2010, at 21:32:49
Sigi it's hard to pick like sleeping and driving, cow manure, strapless gown on man, front yard sex. PJ
Posted by sigismund on August 2, 2010, at 2:21:12
In reply to Re: America » sigismund, posted by ed_uk2010 on August 1, 2010, at 5:21:21
Eddy, does the UK have any bad laws?
I can only find good ones such as.....
>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.
Posted by sigismund on August 2, 2010, at 2:25:14
In reply to Re: America » ed_uk2010, posted by sigismund on August 2, 2010, at 2:21:12
Perhaps this is a bad law in the UK?
>Any person found breaking a boiled egg at the sharp end will be sentenced to 24 hours in the village stocks
because that's how I do it and I'm a good person, our leaders tell me all the time.
Posted by PartlyCloudy on August 2, 2010, at 7:08:27
In reply to UK!!, posted by sigismund on August 2, 2010, at 2:25:14
In my native land, there was even a weekly game show called "This Is The Law" with a variety of skits where the panel would have to guess in which scene an obscure Canadian law was being broken. Hilarious and ridiculous, it was a fairly long running programme, with no shortage of content....
Posted by fayeroe on August 2, 2010, at 14:03:10
In reply to Canada!, posted by PartlyCloudy on August 2, 2010, at 7:08:27
One must acknowledge a supreme being before being able to hold public office.
When two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
It is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
It is illegal to idle or loiter anyplace within the corporate limits of the city for the purpose of flirting or mashing. This law is for the city of Abilene. I've been to Abilene and the last thing on my mind was flirting or mashing. It was 108 degrees that day.
Posted by manic666 on August 2, 2010, at 14:16:21
In reply to America, posted by sigismund on July 30, 2010, at 20:42:04
Posted by ed_uk2010 on August 2, 2010, at 16:35:28
In reply to sig these should keep you up all night, posted by manic666 on August 2, 2010, at 14:16:21
> http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/laws01.htm
Ha! I love this one. In England, it is illegal for a boy under the age of 10 to see a naked mannequin.
Posted by sigismund on August 3, 2010, at 14:58:31
In reply to Re: sig these should keep you up all night, posted by ed_uk2010 on August 2, 2010, at 16:35:28
>In England, it is illegal for a boy under the age of 10 to see a naked mannequin.
It does sound a bit *modern* though, doesn't it, Eddy?
It seems I've not been blocked for my Mercutio moment.
(Mercutio, Mercutio, thou talkst of *nothing*.)Lets see about Australia.
Posted by sigismund on August 3, 2010, at 15:06:28
In reply to Re: sig these should keep you up all night, posted by ed_uk2010 on August 2, 2010, at 16:35:28
I knew it. We don't even have any excitingly bad laws. There was only
>Until the Port Arthur Killings it was legal to own an AK-47 but not legal to be gay.
So pedestrian. And in Tasmania (which that refers to) they now have exhibitions of the various (attempted) exterminations of Aborigines and homosexuals. Political correctness gone wild, I say.
What about regulations with respect to Aborigines early on. Maybe there weren't any?
Posted by sigismund on August 3, 2010, at 15:41:20
In reply to Re: Texas! It is illegal to sell one's own eye. » PartlyCloudy, posted by fayeroe on August 2, 2010, at 14:03:10
> One must acknowledge a supreme being before being able to hold public office.
>
> When two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
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> It is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
>
> It is illegal to idle or loiter anyplace within the corporate limits of the city for the purpose of flirting or mashing. This law is for the city of Abilene. I've been to Abilene and the last thing on my mind was flirting or mashing. It was 108 degrees that day.
Mashing then is what we would have called pashing?"Wake in Fright" is a good guide to Australia. The best movie ever made here about Australia by a long shot.
This review is OK...
Probably Ted Kotchef's finest film, "Wake In Fright" (aka "Outback"), shocked shamed, and enraged a substantial chunk of the Australian population. It died at the box-office, got one TV screening in the early eighties (where I saw it), and then was forgotten -- or at least given up for dead.
Almost forty years later the negative was rediscovered only days away from final destruction (in the US of all places) and a badly needed restoration was begun.
The story: an endentured school teacher in a tiny outback town heads for Sydney and six weeks holiday. But only a day into the journey he loses his money gambling, and is left at the mercy of the local townsfolk.
Like Roeg's Walkabout, Kotchef sees the Australian landscape with the fresh eye of a foreigner. He portrays a society that no domestic film maker would've dared at that time. And he makes a brilliant film doing it. But where Roeg found a desert teeming with life and energetic beauty, Kotchef dicoves a desert surface a hard as iron -- and a population even harder.
"Wake In Fright" (along with "Walkabout") started the renaisance of the Australian film industry. It is beautifully photographed (or at least "appropriately" photographed), directed, edited, and acted. For anyone looking for an insight into the Australian landscape, temperament, or character, this is the film.
So when is someone gonna get of their *ss nd make this availiable in North America?
Posted by fayeroe on August 4, 2010, at 0:42:40
In reply to Re: Texas! It is illegal to sell one's own eye. » fayeroe, posted by sigismund on August 3, 2010, at 15:41:20
" "Wake In Fright" (along with "Walkabout") started the renaisance of the Australian film industry. It is beautifully photographed (or at least "appropriately" photographed), directed, edited, and acted. For anyone looking for an insight into the Australian landscape, temperament, or character, this is the film.
So when is someone gonna get of their *ss nd make this availiable in North America?"
This shall become my new project. I must see the film!
Posted by fayeroe on August 4, 2010, at 13:57:51
In reply to Re: Texas! It is illegal to sell one's own eye. » fayeroe, posted by sigismund on August 3, 2010, at 15:41:20
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> "Wake in Fright" is a good guide to Australia. The best movie ever made here about Australia by a long shot.
>
> This review is OK...
>
> Probably Ted Kotchef's finest film, "Wake In Fright" (aka "Outback"), shocked shamed, and enraged a substantial chunk of the Australian population. It died at the box-office, got one TV screening in the early eighties (where I saw it), and then was forgotten -- or at least given up for dead.
>
> Almost forty years later the negative was rediscovered only days away from final destruction (in the US of all places) and a badly needed restoration was begun.
>
> The story: an endentured school teacher in a tiny outback town heads for Sydney and six weeks holiday. But only a day into the journey he loses his money gambling, and is left at the mercy of the local townsfolk.
>
> Like Roeg's Walkabout, Kotchef sees the Australian landscape with the fresh eye of a foreigner. He portrays a society that no domestic film maker would've dared at that time. And he makes a brilliant film doing it. But where Roeg found a desert teeming with life and energetic beauty, Kotchef dicoves a desert surface a hard as iron -- and a population even harder.
>
> "Wake In Fright" (along with "Walkabout") started the renaisance of the Australian film industry. It is beautifully photographed (or at least "appropriately" photographed), directed, edited, and acted. For anyone looking for an insight into the Australian landscape, temperament, or character, this is the film.
>
> So when is someone gonna get of their *ss nd make this availiable in North America?
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkgwbNCD9l4
8 minutes.......
3 used and new for $30.00.
Posted by europerep on August 4, 2010, at 13:59:27
In reply to Re: America » sigismund, posted by Dinah on July 31, 2010, at 11:29:59
> Laws are often put on the books and people just forget to take them off. There's a funny book on that topic. "The Trenton Pickle Ordinance"
>
> It doesn't mean those laws are enforced. Or even remembered.
hey there..I believe that these legislative norms aren't actual laws that have been passed by a representative body that has the constitutional blabla.. I think it's due to the fact that you guys over there have this "precedence" thing, I think thats what it's called.. so if somewhere, some judge issues some sort of "decree" that isn't against a law, it basically obtains the statute of a law.. it's meant to make the judicial system more coherent (what's forbidden in one place, is forbidden everywhere else), but it produces these weird kind of examples of rules that don't make any sense when taken out of context..
although sometimes I have a hard time imagining a context where they do make sense ;-)...
Posted by sigismund on August 4, 2010, at 15:27:34
In reply to America, posted by sigismund on July 30, 2010, at 20:42:04
>though sometimes I have a hard time imagining a context where they do make sense ;-)...
Yeah, like what was happening on the Minnesota border such that it was necessary to prohibit people from wearing ducks on their heads?
Posted by sigismund on August 4, 2010, at 15:35:19
In reply to Re: America )Europerep, posted by sigismund on August 4, 2010, at 15:27:34
In Alaska, the following laws apply to moose:
a moose may not be viewed from an aeroplane.
it is illegal to give alcoholic beverages to a moose.
it is an offence to push a live moose out of a moving aeroplane.
Posted by sigismund on August 4, 2010, at 15:39:57
In reply to Alaska!, posted by sigismund on August 4, 2010, at 15:35:19
>it is illegal to give alcoholic beverages to a moose
This is a wise law.
In Sweden a few years ago an elk somehow became drunk outside an old peoples home and got its head tangled up in a bicycle.
Posted by sigismund on August 4, 2010, at 15:43:41
In reply to Re: Texas! It is illegal to sell one's own eye. » sigismund, posted by fayeroe on August 4, 2010, at 0:42:40
Wake in Fright is really worth it.
I couldn't believe it when it came out.
It was OMG, am I really seeing it, this is so true.
I saw it again a while ago with my son and we realised how much black humour there was in it.
Posted by fayeroe on August 4, 2010, at 16:22:24
In reply to Alaska!, posted by sigismund on August 4, 2010, at 15:35:19
> In Alaska, the following laws apply to moose:
>
> a moose may not be viewed from an aeroplane.
>
> it is illegal to give alcoholic beverages to a moose.
>
> it is an offence to push a live moose out of a moving aeroplane.but what if you had drank what you weren't giving to him and you thought it might be a good idea to see if moose/mice can fly?
Posted by sigismund on August 5, 2010, at 2:38:47
In reply to Re: Alaska!.., posted by fayeroe on August 4, 2010, at 16:22:24
This is excellent.
And inspired, incomparably brilliant and wonderful, in particular.....
Well Mack the finger said to Louie the King
I got forty red white and blue shoe strings
And a thousand telephones that don't ring
Do you know where I can get ride of these things
And Louie the King said let me think for a minute son
And he said yes I think it can be easily done
Just take everything down to Highway 61.Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night
Told the first father that things weren't right
My complexion she said is much too white
He said come here and step into the light he says hmmm you're right
Let me tell second mother this has been done
But the second mother was with the seventh son
And they were both out on Highway 61.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wcwZXOPA7o
Posted by sigismund on August 5, 2010, at 2:45:37
In reply to Re: Alaska!.., posted by fayeroe on August 4, 2010, at 16:22:24
Where is Highway 61 anyway?
Do you know it?
Is there anything special (like specially bad, I suppose) about it?
Posted by fayeroe on August 5, 2010, at 2:55:49
In reply to American Gothic » fayeroe, posted by sigismund on August 5, 2010, at 2:45:37
> Where is Highway 61 anyway?
>
> Do you know it?
>
> Is there anything special (like specially bad, I suppose) about it?Lifted from Wikipedia! Am going to bed and will talk more tomorrow.......since you are such a Leonard Cohen fan, I'll let you pass this time on not catching the HWY 61 connection.
U.S. Route 61, is the official designation for a United States highway that runs 1,400 miles (2,300 km) from New Orleans, Louisiana, to the city of Wyoming, Minnesota. The highway generally follows the course of the Mississippi River, and is designated the Great River Road for much of its route. As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus in Wyoming, Minnesota is at an intersection with Interstate 35. Prior to 1991, the highway extended north on what is now MN 61 through Duluth to the United States-Canada border near Grand Portage. Its southern terminus in New Orleans is at an intersection with Tulane Avenue at Carrollton Avenue. The highway is often called "The Blues Highway," because of the course it takes from Minnesota, and into Louisiana (primarily New Orleans), which is considered the heart of the blues, as well as Dixieland jazz.
The route was an important northsouth connection in the days before the interstate highway system. Many southerners traveled north along Highway 61 while going to St. Louis, Missouri and St. Paul, Minnesota. The highway was also used in the title of Duluth native Bob Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited.
Posted by Dinah on August 5, 2010, at 8:40:07
In reply to precedence, posted by europerep on August 4, 2010, at 13:59:27
I thought I remembered them as being laws, not precedent. Ordinance would refer to a law.
These laws are probably mostly local. The local leaders were faced with something that caused trouble in the community, and passed a law to stop it. Because they couldn't just issue a "knock it off", they had to make a general law to address the issue.
Or perhaps certain laws were passed to benefit the current lawmakers.
Time passed, the issue went away, but no one remembered, or perhaps saw the need to, repeal the law.
It's rather sad to know that there was need to make laws for dropping moose out of airplanes or getting them drunk. But I certainly don't blame the local authorities for trying to stop it.
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