"Trivino Abelardo" wrote in message
> Tue Nov 6, 2:19 PM ET
>
> LONDON (AFP) - Queen Elizabeth II's speech in the British parliament
> Tuesday may have been routine but at least nobody got bored to death. That
> would have been against the law.
>
> Dying in parliament is an offence and 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 ermine cloaks and
> ambassadors from around the world wore colourful national costumes, at
> least nobody turned up in a suit of armour. Illegal.
>
> Other rules deemed utterly stupid included one that permits a pregnant
> woman to urinate in a policeman's hat and murdering 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 out Tuesday.
>
> Nearly half of those surveyed admitted to breaking the ban on eating mince
> pies on Christmas Day, which dates back to the 17th century and was
> originally designed to outlaw gluttony during the rule of the Puritan
> Oliver Crowmell.
>
> 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 ancient legislation that has never been repealed although subsequent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.
>
> Respondents were given a shortlist and asked to vote.
>
> Most ridiculous British law:
>
> 1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27 percent)
>
> 2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British
> monarch upside-down (seven percent)
>
> 3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk
> in a tropical fish store (six percent)
>
> 4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day (five percent)
>
> 5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of
> your toilet, you must let them enter (four percent)
>
> 6. A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants,
> including in a policeman's helmet (four percent)
>
> 7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically
> becomes the property of the king, and the tail of the queen (3.5 percent)
>
> 8. It is illegal to avoid telling the tax man anything you do not want him
> to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing
> (three percent)
>
> 9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour
> (three percent)
>
> 10. In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the
> ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow (two
> percent)
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071106/od_afp/britainlawsoffbeat
>
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>
> In Britain it is also legal to take very weekend a handfull of drugs if
> you are bound to live in a wheelchair and are to coward to face anyone for
> real (=Takin Gthepiss).
>
>
>
**Hello Trivino. :-)
I believe that in some countries it is legal for yaabaa addicted assholes to
post intimate details about their . life - like you did on sct a few years
ago when you posted details about the first time that you had . with your
wife.
It's legal, but an *EXTREMELY* foolish thing to do........ :-)
Your amigo,
Takin
--
"I had . for the first time with my girlfriend on the evening of my
Bouddhist wedding in her house at Chayaphum in 2000, 3 weeks after my
arrival in Thailand. I was divorced from my second wife in 1997 and had no
. untill 2000." - Abelardo Trivino
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