Let's have a rest from all the recent 377 debates.
The New Paper November 09, 2007
IF you happen to be at the British parliament, just make sure you don't die in there, or you might get a jail sentence too.
Dying in British parliament is an offence, reported AFP. It is also by far the most absurd law in Britain, according to a survey of nearly 4,000 people by a television channel showing a legal drama series.
And though the lords were clad in their red and white cloaks and ambassadors from around the world wore colourful national costumes, at least nobody turned up in a suit of armour. It's illegal. Other rules deemed utterly stupid included one that permits a pregnant woman to urinate in a policeman's hat and another allowing the murder of bow-and-arrow-carrying Scotsmen within the city walls of York, northern England. A law stating that, in Liverpool, only a clerk in a tropical fish store is allowed to be publicly topless, was also ridiculous, said a poll of 3,931 people for UKTV Gold television on Tuesday. But a Liverpool City Council spokesman told UPI that such a law does not exist, calling the so-called legislation a mere urban myth that gained some notoriety. Nearly half of those surveyed admitted to breaking the ban on eating mince pies on Christmas Day, which dates back to the 17thcentury. It was originally designed to outlaw gluttony during the rule of the Puritan Oliver Cromwell.
The laws and other regulations were culled from published research into ancient legislation that has never been repealed although subsequent statutes have rendered them obsolete.
Other ridiculous British laws: - Placing a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down is an act of treason - In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires use of your toilet, you must let them enter - Head of dead whale found on British coast automatically becomes property of king. Tail goes to queen - Illegal to avoid telling tax man anything you don't want him to know, but legal not to tell him what you don't mind him knowing
Laws and regulations are supposed to be serious matters, right? Wrong. At least, 377 is appropriate.
it's okay if you can't see the road ahead, just make sure God is still in sight!!
In His time, in His time,
He makes all things beautful in His time.
Lord, please show me every day,
As You're teaching me Your way,
That You do just what You say, in Your time.
In Your time, in Your time,
You make all things beautiful in Your time.
Lord, my life to You I bring.
May each song I have to sing
Be to You a lovely thing, in Your time.
Words and Music by Diane Ball
Th3 b@bY iN mI
vette
15 Sept 88
child of God
likes: zzz
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