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January’s a nice month. I like January. Except the last week of January when all the space disasters happened. That week, I don’t like.
So, what should we discuss now? Exams? *bleh* Dinosaurs? Silly things our pets eat? Our astonishment that the CLINTONS pushed the button to let the ball drop? (the HORROR, what a bad omen!)
Dinosaurs would be fun to discuss. I still remember a lot from all those dinosaur books I read back in the day.
3- What do you have against the clintons?
well…sorry, i’m a staunch obama fan. hillary’s okay…i guess.
5) Are you a Democrat?
7- I am an independent. Let me guess- you are a republican.
dinosaurs. I like that. Might I introduce the subject of marauding as a possible option?
5 – Same thing my dad does – he thinks bill was in office too long and it’s bad enough the media is harping on about Obama.
I’m still feebly pushing for the topic of freedom—to what degree are you free?
I think it’s a perfect topic for an Incredible Morphing Chameleon thread.
How about all the stupid things people do when they shouldn’t be doing it? Or really obvious laws? Such as “No texting while driving”.
12-Isn’t there a law that says you can’t dye live chickens colors on Easter somewhere?
. new years resolutions?
13- Live chickens???? Serriously. Who would try and dye a live chicken? Chickens are really hard to hold and probably not too happy about being dyed.
In some places there is a law saying every store must have a hitching post out front… really no one does it it’s just the law hasn’t been lifted yet and for some reason no one wants to.
3 – Yes, I know, the CLINTONS? He’s a former President, she’s Secretary of State… don’t they have better things to do?
12- I support the idea of talking about things that people do and the government has to make a law about it. There could be some really funny ones out there! (like dying chickens on Easter!
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Dying chickens on Easter?! You’re supposed to dye the EGGS, not the CHICKEN!
Allthough it’s a bit late to be discussing major politics (all the election action has died down), we could still discuss something like current events in the political world, or just current events period.
i like the idea of obscure laws.
on vermont it is illeagl to put salt on the railroad tracks andin alaska it is illeagl to wake up a sleeping bear to take its picture.
13- in nanny mcphee there are dyed lambs.
and what about dying chikens NOT on easter? is that legal?
19- Do you like the idea of discussing them, or the laws themselves?
20- discussing them. some are downright annoying. i’ve always wanted to tie my pet giraffe to the telephone poles in atlanta. (what else is tall enough?)but unfortunately it’s illegal. i do enjoy sarcasm. we need a sarcasm thread. *trots off to suggestion box leaving this comment unfinished*
20- What 21 said. And listing them. And laughing at them. And pretending I would actualy have a reason to break em. Like what if the bear that was sleeping was a bear worth 1million and I really needed a picture of it awake so I could pay my texting bills (Just so you know…. I don’t know how to text)
Silly laws and my opinions of them:
• In Alaska, it’s against the law to push a live moose out of a moving plane. (Can you push a dead moose out of a moving plane?)
• In Arkansas, it’s illegal to mispronounce “Arkansas”.
I live in Arkansas. That’s pronounced “R-Kansas”.
You’re under arrest!)
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• In California, it’s illegal to try to stop a child from jumping in puddles.
Whee! *jumps in puddle*
No! Stay out of those puddles!
You’re under arrest!)
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• In Connecticut, a pickle must bounce in order to be officially considered a pickle. (
*makes mental note not to buy pickles in Connecticut*)
• In Delaware, it is illegal to get married on a dare. (I dare you to marry… *looks around* um … *points at random person* That person!)
• In Miami, Florida, it is illegal for a man to be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown. (
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I wonder how many of these laws are real, and how many are urban legends. Can you cite sources of information for them? Do you know when they were enacted, and why?
You know, there’s a website on this…
www . idiotlaws. com
[I don’t recommend it. It’s hard to navigate and full of pop-up ads. I wouldn’t be surprised if it plants cookies on your computer and spams you forever. It’s also snide and hackneyed (“see what lawmakers are doing with your hard-earned tax dollars”) and doesn’t cite references. There are probably Muserly things to be said about silly laws, but simply making fun of them is too easy. –Robert]
23- good thing I don’t like pickles. A bouncing pickle would give me nightmares. And my friend didn’t know how to pronounce Arkansas and actualy pronounced it R-kansas. It got a good laugh from my coach who was from there.
25 – Aw, pity. I didn’t navigate it beforehand, but thanks for the tip!
8) How did you guess?
Crazy laws? Apparently, in Baltimore, it is illegal to take a lion to the movies. In Kansas, it’s apparently illegal to put icecream on cherry pie.
Where did that “cool” smilie come from?
Numeral 8 followed by a closing parenthesis evokes 8) .
In Hawai’i, it is illegal to put coins in your ears. Um, why would you want to?
In Arkansas there is a law stating the river may not raise above the main street bridge in Little Rock. It’s funny because how can you fine a river?
And apparently you aren’t allowed to drive more than 2 thousand sheep down Hollywood Street.
police: one thousand nine hundred ninty nine…two thousand- Yup he’s clear!
sheep driver: Phew.
Quite a lot of these are technicalities-owning wild animals is illegal, hence the no giraffes tied to lampposts, which also might obstruct traffic, or cases of Puritanical laws of the 1800s that nobody bothered to overturn, i. e. the no men in strapless gowns publically. Also, the no waking bears is a safety law, and the sheep may also be a traffic law-ridiculous now, but perhaps there were many shepherds in the Hollywood area?
33- Well why just to take it’s picture? Why not just “don’t wake sleeping bears”? I’m not attacking you just bringing up the question. Was it a single incident where someone woke a bear to take it’s picuture so they banned that? Or did they think only idiot tourists would wake a sleeping bear and tourists take pictures? Why are laws brought up in the first place? (except for the obvious: “Without rules we’d be chaos.(Chaos is an awsome game by the way))
In Alabama it is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle.
(…Can someone drive with a blindfold on anyway?)
In Florida it is illegal for unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday.
(Um.)
In Iowa kisses may last for as much as, but no more than, five minutes.
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(Who would regulate this? The Kiss Police?
In Nebraska a parent can be arrested if his/her child cannot hold back a burp during a church service.
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(Hahahahahahahaha.
In Washington all lollipops are banned.
(I seriously doubt this… but it’s hilarious.)
Maybe the people who wrote the law wanted to make an exception for wildlife biologists who might conceivably want to wake sleeping bears for scientific purposes. In any case, it’s possible to find out: legislatures keep records of the debates that lead up to enactment of laws. With a little research, you could learn when, how, and why the law came into being, and whether it really is as silly as it sounds.
35- That last one is completely false. I’ve had lollipops in Washington.
34-I don’t know. Quite probably there was an incident of someone doing so and the lawmakers were very specific in wanting to prevent that sort of incident from occurring again.
35- Wait, Washington the state or DC? Cause when I went to DC i bought three huge lollipops…
In florida men are forbidden to wear strapless gowns in public.
37, 39 – I know, it’s ridiculous. But it sounded amusing. And I knew it wasn’t true. I’ve been to both Washington and DC, and they sell lollipops in gift shops.
EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know I read a list of silly laws before andI think I still have the book it was in. I’ll go look for it…………..
……oh, right. I just remembered that I got rid of the book.
40- Yes, because I’m sure they’d want to…
Get this. In Michigan, my home state:
-A woman cannot cut her hair without her husband’s permission.
-Security guards at Joe Louis Arena will confiscate any item they feel might be thrown onto the ice.
-Willfully destroying your old radio is prohibited.
-It is illegal to let your pig run free in Detroit unless it has a ring in its nose.
-No person shall throw an abandoned hoop skirt into any street or on any sidewalk, under penalty of a five- dollar fine for each offense.
That pig one made me laugh.
41) Well, most likely these laws were made so long ago, they’re out dated to the point of ridiculousness, so that the original reason they applied no longer applies. It’s just that people haven’t bothered to get rid of the laws because no one bothers to enforce them anyway.
45- I can sorta understand the Joe Louis Arena thing. Although it does lend itself to mocking (like everyother thing on this blog)
Guard- “M’am, I’m gonna need to see your wedding ring, we feel you might just throw it onto the ice…”
Here’s one from colorado:
-car dealers are not allowed to sell cars on sunday.
at least I think that’s it
48- That’s not just CO. That was the law for, I believe, every state and most countries until the mid-twentieth century, give or take a few decades.
49- thats not a very long Era of time, given that cars only became popular in the early 20th century.
Heh. Scintillating.
I could get out my Balderdash game, which has at least a hundred silly laws… but meh.
Snopes.com is skeptical about lists of “loony laws” but says it doesn’t have time to investigate many of them. The people there did bust a few myths about laws in Arizona, however, as you can see at snopes . com/legal/arizona.asp .
I’m thinking that most of the laws come from things that people have actually done and have caused a lot of mayhem.
I was playing Balderdash with my cousins and the older one came up with this one…
In blankety blank (I forgot where) it is illegal to tie…
the pope’s robes in knots
POPE’S ROBES!!! Hilarious! Of course, after a while I thought that it was real and told it to all my neighbors. Oh, well.
ha! ha! *laughs hysterically*
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Who would do that? 
Tis outragious!
54- Um. Pope’s robes? Do you think it’s possibe to get close enough to the pope in order to do that?
Of course, I guess that has possibitlites as a law. I think I read somewhere that all women in the Vatican City have to wear long pants too. I think the Pope gets a lot of protection. But can you be arrested for stuff like that? Wait… yeah you can. Vatcican city is a country. So technicaly they could have their own legal system with their own laws. If my neibor wasn’t 89 years old I’d go and ask him. He used to work as a latin trasnlater there.
Does anyone even use latin anymore?
57-As a vernacular? No, at least not that I know of.
57- Not in the vernacular, but it’s the state language of Vatican City and I think some newspapers there are in it.
57, 59- There are ATMs and other such things around Rome in Latin. My Latin Club goes there every two years. I haven’t been allowed to go yet, though. Apart from that, Latin is still basically the universal language, used especially in science and medicine, as well as law.
Idk where i read it but somewhere I heard it’s illegal to name your pig Napolean in France, and some other wacky ones…something about skydiving on Tuesdays…I’ll find it, or rather, not. most f these laws are ether funny but fake, or made up for particular exceptions and never revoked (if that’s possible…)
ok i found it but obviously i can’t link it sooooo… google “top most ridiculous laws in the world” and go to the yoopee link. bad name i know! now some of these im pretty sure are fake. for example i highly doubt in Massachusetts men must obtain a permit to wear a goatee. i’m from Massachuetts and I’ve never heard this so i’ll check next time i see a goatee.
PS: I love this post/blog/topic
8(Cliff Eagle)- i’m conservative, like Hillary better than Mcain, and am going into politics as an Independent because the Aussie Libs are old farts. Our Mayor’s an Independent, and I like him.
60- Jealous!!!!! i wanna go to Rome!
Why don’t we get a new topic!
The effect of cows on the environment?
Whether people or animals are smarter?
Our favorite cheeses?
Bad politics?
Yes! i spelled Chameleon right! oh yeah! anyway I came over to suggest the topic of corruption on the school board, spending money where they shouldn’t, stupid budget cuts etc…. Older musers feel free to chime in please, it’s never too late to complain. (That is, if anyone feels like talking about it)
66) That would be good.
The latest for my school system is that a TON of money has been called for to be returned from the system. This means job cuts. Who do you think they’re going to cut? Essential teacher jobs that they can’t find people to take anyway or several of the excess adminestration jobs? Perhaps the the assitant of the assitant of the 2nd in command to the head of the school board? Oh, wait….. I guess they’re too important. I guess we’ll just cut teacher jobs. *scowl*
Back to the subject of wacky laws, did you know it’s illegal to cross the border of Minisota with a duck on your head ? (Not like anyone would want to.)
67) I’ve got some good ones. Our school built an exspensive STONE foyer because they needed new science classrooms. Yeah, that was the reason. And the science rooms are really bad fire hazards. The plugs are under the sinks, there is only one fire alarm in the earth science halway, and there are no chemical showers, no fire blankets, no nothing in case of a fire. Not to mention the fact that the colors are puke orange. But hey, we have a stone foyer!
Wow. A stone foyer. 8)
Our highschool’s principle is is an obese former elementary school PE teacher. That in itself is all you need to know. He isn’t exactly interested in keeping the academic program, but mighty interested in sports. Since he’s come, he’s installed new bleachers (why? the old ones had nothing wrong with them?) and he also bought a giant inflatable foot helmet for the football team to run through on home games to look impressive, along with a giant smoke machine. Woo hoo. Well, we have enough money for those things, but apparently not enough for paper. (not only is there hardly any, but teachers are shortaged on the amount of paper they can use and hey frequently run out)
71- Our principal decided to go on to be head of Athletics proving once and for all he realy does love all jocks more. This is the guy who spent school funds so he could drive a golf cart from the school to the overexspensive new football field. Oh and (I know this b/c my mom is on the soccer board) when he asked to borrow money for said field, he said the soccer players could use it any time and now that they have it he says they can’t use cleats on the field.
I have to go back to school tomorrow even though I’m jetlagged… wish me luck !
hmm. two months until my older brother goes to afghanistan.
I love school right now. Because I don’t have any, except for Friday afternoon (Alg.2 exam) and next Tuesday (Chem. exam) besides that, I don’t have any more school until the 26. Awesome right?
73-good luck!
75- I think we all love/hate midterm week.
Well, yeah. Exam week, midterm week, the same thing really. But, I do believe that you get more days off for exam week. So, Midterms are worse. But, then again, final exams are more worrisome then Midterms. Perhaps it evens out then.
Huh. Don’t ya think the thread is sorta drifting back into the Sort of General Mish Mash it was at before.
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Oops. :blush: I clicked Morphing Chameleon, not Newcomers. In this case, this is not drifting back into the Mish-Mash because that’s what it was to begin with.
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79-81- always make sure you post on the corect thread. and there is an html testing thread somewhere for doing things like that.
my school that has no money whatsoever, built and entire new middle school because the old one had mold in the walls. and we have 2 smartboards that nobody ever uses. and we can’t ski on the football feild because apparently skiing on snow on a feild is going to ruin it. its ironic.
Thanks MARF, I know. Would you belive I clicked the wrong thread?! Me, of all people! It’s not like I’m known to be a klutz. How…did…I…do…that?
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How odd. On my home computer, the pies don’t show up. They’re just arrows. How confusing……
84) Try clearing your cache. I also couldn’t see the pies in the beginning.
My cache?
(86) Try refreshing the page first (click on the circular arrow at the top of the browser). That’s the easiest method, when it works.
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AMAZING! 
S what are we talking about here again? I think we got off topic. How about a new topic? Things that smell good? The effects of cows on the environment? Bad politics? American Idol?
Meh. How bout the Simpsons? D’oh!
This thread is deeead.
Tisn’t! I just haven’t thought of anything to say yet. However, now I’ve said something, proving that NOW I have something to say, even though it is irrelevant.
Dude! Where is everyone! We need a new topic! FAST! Come ON peoples!
This topic is STUCK!
Annoying commercials? Weird fantasy places? Badgers?
94- I remember reading one of the Little House books when I was a wee bairn, I think it was On the Banks of Plum Creek, and there was a scene with a badger and it scared me so much, because it flattened itself out and hissed at them and I thought that any animal that could flatten itself out was terrifying, like a cockatrice (don’t ask me where the connection comes from. Maybe the hissing).
Annoying or funny commercials!
I saw one for a car sale (the KIA Carfest) where a salesman dances and jumps over cars, and it was so funny!
Head on! Apply directly to the forehead! Head on! Apply directly to the forehead! Head on! Apply directly to the forehead! Head on! Apply directly to the forehead! Head on! Apply directly to the forehead! Head on! Apply directly to the forehead! Head on! Apply directly to the forehead! Head on! Apply directly to the forehead!
I don’t watch enough TV to see good commercials. Did you see the one during the super bowl a couple years ago where there was a cat and a rabbit and they were trying to do something over the internet and they were using a mouse (the furry kind) and saying things like this
it’s not clicking *hits mouse on head*
maybe we should try dragging it *pulls across floor*
oh, I know, it’s not plugged in! *puts tail into socket*
it was simply hilarious.
95- I was scared during that part too. I loved it at the same time though. My teacher made me read that part aloud though, and that sucked becuase I wasn’t a good reader then and took everything really slow.
The badger is Hufflepuff’s animal. I’ve never understood that becuase they are supsoed to be mean creatures and Hufflepuffs are suposed to be nice.
Superbowl commercials are sometimes hilarious, sometimes not. The highlight of a Superbowl a couple of years ago was the one with the baby and the webcam and he throws up… have you ever seen that one? The one with the dancing lizards was awesome, too. I also liked the Doritos one with the giant mouse.
I have watched the superbowl. It just never interested me. I have, however, heard people discussing the commercials. aRe they really that interesting?
97- Yeah, Head-on is annoying. They even did a couple of commercials with people mocking the repetitive statement, and then saying “But I LOVE your product!”
Ok i know this has nothing to do with HEAD ON but where the heck is everyone!?!? I mean come on it’s only 7:47 PM. does everyone have early curfews or am I the only loser on a computer tonight and everyone else is some where? GOSH, I need to get a life. Does anyone know if they’re sold an ebay?
99- They stil play that one. Used to be funny, now just smileable. Didn’t see the lizard one.
102- I’m here. And you are posting under your Alter Ego. I don’t have early curfew (do you cound nine early?) I think only the bord gane can be found on Ebay.
OK sorry for double posting but maybe my computers clock is wrong. in that case. COME ON people it’s 6:50!!
(that’s even earlier than 7:47) GEEZ
I’m here, but I can’t think of anything to say.
you know that kind of makes me sad that i can’t buy a life off ebay
You’d be buying somebody else’s used hand-me-down life. Would you really want that?
well no i guess not.
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I like the “Coke Zero” commercials. With the “coke” guys vs. the “coke zero” guys. Kind of funny.
I remember the one with the dancing lizards. I hink I saw one once that was that black and white fuzzy suff and it was like that for about ten seconds. then this guy said “your tv isnt broken, …..” and then he said more stuff. But all you could see was the weird moving dots.
kiwimuncher- Sometimes the commercials during the Superbowl are funny, but most of them are about beer. And sometimes they show the same beer commercials over and over again, and it gets kind of annoying.
I agree with the Coke Zero commercials. I haven’t seen that many, though. There was a recent one with a Coke guy who drank an entire bottle of Coke Zero and the other Coke guy got mad at him… mildly amusing.
One of my friends has TiVo and doesn’t watch commercials. She pauses it and then fast fowards to when the commercials are done. But now she doesn’t know about half the commercials everyone else talks about, and is left out of many a joke.
It’s sort of sad, really. Commercials are the one thing that most teenagers have in common. Even though we all don’t watch the same shows, in the end, we all watch the same commercials. Have you ever thought about that? Well, I just did. (Hmmm, that was a very Dwight-y line.)
111) Hmmmm. You may have a point there. We do all see similar commercials. THough if you don’t watch TV or you watch entirely different channels, then you may not see as many advertisements in common.
Silly laws.
Wasn’t there some place that you HAD to smile in public or you’d get arrested?
(cop)