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You couldn't make these laws up.
1 posted on 12/25/2011 5:31:17 AM PST by diverteach
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To: diverteach

From the article:

Arkansas -
It’s illegal to mispronounce the name of the state of Arkansas.


G. Legman discuses a speech purportedly given sometime in the 1800s by a famous Arkansan (politician) on the proposal to pronounce the name of Arkansas like the name Kansas — “are kansas”. Maybe the law is based on that.

I’d go look it up, but it is one of the most exquisitely obscene rants in history. Legman claims there is no proof that the man existed or that the speech was really given but true or not I can’t post it here.

Merry Christmas all!


29 posted on 12/25/2011 10:13:11 AM PST by Peet (Cogito ergo dubito.)
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To: diverteach

I think maybe Republicans should propose all laws (as opposed to Constitutional rights, for example) all laws, should be retroactively be modified by law, to have an automatic sunset no longer than one generation. Say, 20 years.

If a law is really necessary and logical, the next generation will think so also.

Otherwise, it’s gone. If something is needed to replace it, it will have to be written again, and be justified.

Seriously this would solve a lot of what is wrong with America right now - mostly we pass ever more laws.

So let’s start getting rid of a lot of them, with one simple solution. Sunset all of them after a generation.

Every single law.

No exceptions.


35 posted on 12/25/2011 10:58:20 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("FREE TRADERS": Self-loathing Americans)
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Texas
You may not shoot a buffalo from the second story of a hotel.

Via http://www.divinecaroline.com/22323/99603-i-m-arrest-what-fifty-bizarre/3#ixzz1ha3CXQAT

Okay, what about giving them coffee?
And the first or third story of a hotel is presumably okay?

Grain of salt bizarre laws.
Need Humble for this one.


45 posted on 12/25/2011 12:42:05 PM PST by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: diverteach; Quix

Thanks.


46 posted on 12/25/2011 1:05:22 PM PST by Joya (http://www.angelsonassignment.org/why_aoa.html)
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To: diverteach
Wisconsin Unless a customer specifically requests it, margarine may not be substituted for butter in a restaurant.

Makes perfect sense as the two aren't the same at all.

47 posted on 12/25/2011 1:27:04 PM PST by Eaker (Nothing even remotely praising Romney should be posted because one should stick to the truth.)
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To: diverteach

Texas - You may not shoot a buffalo from the second story of a hotel.

That is why I never book a room on the second floor, any other floor will do. You never know when a juicy buffalo will stroll by.


50 posted on 12/25/2011 3:30:05 PM PST by GregoTX
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