There ought to be a law

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

OK, drudged up a few more


In Carmel, N.Y., a man can't go outside while wearing a jacket and pants that do not match

In Hartford, Conn., you aren't allowed to cross a street while walking on your hands

In Oxford, Ohio, it's illegal for a woman to strip off her clothing while standing in front of a man's picture

In Pennsylvania it is illegal to have over 16 women live in a house together because that constitutes a brothel...however up to 120 men can live together, without breaking the law

If you sell hollow logs in Tennessee, you are breaking the law

Compulsive gamblers stay out of Richmond, VA: it is even illegal to flip a coin in a restaurant to see who pays for the coffee

in OK. This state forbids a person from taking a bite out of another person's hamburger

In the state of New York, you need a license to use a clothesline outdoors

What happens to doughnut holes? Well, they won't be found in Lehigh NE. Selling doughnut holes in this city is verboten

in NC it is against the law to use elephants to plow cotton fields

Boston Laws
It is illegal to take more than 2 baths a month within Boston confines.
Two people cannot kiss in front of a church.

All Public Displays of Affection (PDAs) are forbidden on Sunday.

Pedestrians always have the right of way.

Anyone may let their sheep and cows graze in the public gardens/commons at any time except Sundays



Kansas:

No one may catch fish with his bare hands in Kansas


If you'd like to see some more of theseStupid laws


Wicked

 

[R. Richard]

"In Baltimore, it's illegal to throw bales of hay from a second-story window within the city limits. It's also illegal to take a lion to the movies."

Hey! Wait a minute, not being able to take a lion to the movies in Baltimore is just MGM defending their trademark. Hell, that aint weird!

 

[SeaCat]

Strange as it sounds this is one of my hot buttons. Hmmmm, let's make a law outlawing something we don't agree with. (Typical North American Politics. Who would vote against a law banning sex with the dead?) On the surface it sounds perfectly legitimate right? Well here's a good one. In many states it is against the law to have sodomy sex. Originaly written to stop Truck Stop Sex by Homosexuals. Well, let's see here. That outlaws sex among gay males doesn't it? It also outlaws anal sex among consenting hetero couples. Now how do we enforce this? Do we watch through peoples windows to make sure they don't violate the law? (Reminds me of a case a while back where a couple were video taped through their window having sex then prosecuted for having sex where children might see it. Nothing was said about their invasion of privacy.)
This is very popular among United States Politicians. Lets make a law banning something we don't like. Then we can ridicule those who vote against this law. (Again we'll use the laws against Sodomy. If you vote against it then you have to be in favor of Homosexuality, even if you are hetero and disagree with this law for it's violation of privacy.)

Now as for stupid laws. In Boston it is illegal to ride a horse down the street after midnight.
In many places it is illegal to discharge a firearm within fifty feet of a residence, regardless of the reason.
In Massachussetts, if someone breaks into your house, trips over something and breaks their leg you are liable for the treatment of their injuries. It doesn't matter that they had broken into your house.
In Mass. if you are intoxicated, are the only person in a motor vehicle, you can be charged with Operating Under the Influence. (You can be in the back seat sleeping it off in the parking lot with your keys in your pocket and you can/will be charged with this.)
In Mass. it is illegal to be naked in view of anyone else. You can be charged with this regardless of circumstances.
In one state, (I believe it is New Jersey,) it is illegal to have sex in anything other than the missionary position. If you are caught it is a Misdemeanor. (Now who enforces the law, and why aren't they charged with violation of privacy?)

One of the reasons these stupid laws are still on the books is because no politician in their right mind would try to have them deleted from the books. They would be branded as being revisionist and run out of town on a rail.

Cat


Oh yeahy, there are several states where an adulteress can still legaly be marked. Adultry by a woman is still illegal in most states although they don't seem to mention adultry by the husband.

 

[Jagged]

The isn't strict......when I lived in PA the law said more then four women living together constituted a brothel and the proterty owner could be fined at least.

We always wondered at college if the town would be going on a money making raid of the women's dorms at college.




Michigan it is illegal for someone to tie their crocodile to a fire plug (this was enough of a problem that the town fathers had to deal with it?)

 

[oggbashan]

Okay....gonna step out on a limb here. I remember reading somewhere that Queen Victoria did not believe that there was any way two women could have sexual relations. Therefore, there was a law in GB passed outlawing male homosexuality, however female homosexuality was ignored...

Somebody set me straight here...

The Act of Parliament was presented to Queen Victoria to sign. (The Monarch signs or approves all Acts of Parliament)

Queen Victoria SAID that she didn't believe female homosexuality existed. My view is that she did know but didn't want it made illegal. The Prime Minister was too embarrassed to try to explain it to Her Majesty so the Act was passed for male homosexuals only.

Locally: There are bye-laws (local laws that cover a town) that ban swimming in the sea except when wearing the so-called 'University Costume' which covers the body legs and arms for at least three inches. The women's version must have a skirt as well. Men could bathe before 7am wearing slips (like bikini bottoms) on the specified men's beach. Even though we now have a nudist beach the bye-law has not been cancelled. The town used to hire University Costumes to visitors who had forgotten to bring one. Old photos show the costumes being worn with 'xxxxx U.D.C.' prominently displayed across the upper chest.

Cycling is banned in many parts of the town. It is ignored and even a designated 'cycle route' now passes through an area that has an old ban. Two or three years ago one local busy-body saw a town councillor riding his bicycle along the cycle route and complained to the Town Clerk. The councillor was prosecuted, fined one pound by another Justice of the Peace and ordered to refrain from cycling through the area. He now walks his bicycle as everyone else cycles past.

Until about 10 years ago London Taxi Drivers were required to carry a bale of hay for their horse even if their taxi-cab ran on diesel fuel.

Spitting and hawking (loudly clearing your throat of mucus) are banned on public transport and on public highways. This was a precaution against Tuberculosis but many teenagers copy footballers and spit. Perhaps I should complain - but teenagers seem to grow out of it.

Og

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Okay....gonna step out on a limb here. I remember reading somewhere that Queen Victoria did not believe that there was any way two women could have sexual relations. Therefore, there was a law in GB passed outlawing male homosexuality, however female homosexuality was ignored...

Somebody set me straight here...

I understand her way of thinking. Men DO have a hole where a cock may be inserted, but women have nothing to insert into each others' holes.
Honestly, I still believe des and Renza are still only on second base.

 

[Marsipanne]

Titbit/tidbit. I think tidbit is American, titbit is English. Titbit was too titillating, apparently, or scandalous, or whatever. But I'm pretty sure it's that way round.

 

[Guest]

Titbit/tidbit. I think tidbit is American, titbit is English. Titbit was too titillating, apparently, or scandalous, or whatever. But I'm pretty sure it's that way round.

You are correct. P.
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Entry printed from Oxford English Dictionary Online, © Oxford University Press 2004 (SECOND EDITION, 1989)
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tit-bit, tid-bit. (ttbt), (tdbt) [In 17th c., tyd bit, tid-bit, f. TID a. + BIT; later also tit-bit, perh. after compounds of TIT n.3; tid-bit is now chiefly N. Amer.]

a. A small and delicate or appetizing piece of food; a toothsome morsel, delicacy, bonne bouche.

c1640 J. SMYTH Lives Berkeleys (1885) III. 25 A tyd bit, i.e. a speciall morsell reserved to eat at last. 1701 COLLIER M. Aurel. (1726) 13 To be always loading the table, and eating of tid-bits. 1755 Connoisseur No. 87. (1774) III. 123 For fear any tid-bit should be snapped up before him, he snatches at it..greedily. 1834 L. RITCHIE Wand. by Seine 185 The sturgeons, the finest salmons, and other tid-bits of the fishery. 1895 Outing (U.S.) XXVI. 436/2 [The coon] locating many a tid-bit by means of his sharp nose and bright eyes. 1906 U. SINCLAIR Jungle xiv. 162 Things..went into the sausages in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 28 An unusually good selection of hot and cold tid bits.

1694 MOTTEUX Rabelais IV. xlvi, He promis'd double Pay..to any one that should bring him such a Tit-bit piping-hot. 1727 ARBUTHNOT John Bull Postscr. ix, How John pamper'd Esquire South with Tit-bits, till he grew wanton. 1861 J. PYCROFT Agony Point (1862) 363 To see..such tarts and tit-bits. 1865 TROLLOPE Belton Est. xxv, No more tit-bits of hashed chicken specially picked out for her.

b. fig.; spec. a brief and isolated interesting item of news or information; hence in pl., name of a periodical consisting of such items.

1735 FIELDING Eurydice I. i, My farce is an Oglio of tid-bits. 1776 FOOTE Capuchin III. Wks. 1799 II. 401 A fine girl, as I live! too nice a tid-bit for an apprentice. 1883 C. READE in Harper's Mag. June 94/1 He furnished me..several tidbits that figure in my printed works. 1941 AUDEN New Year Let. I. 26 Add his small tid-bit to the rest. 1976 Time 27 Dec. 49/3 There were enough tidbits of good news last week to soothe the fears of some Ford Administration economists.

1708 Brit. Apollo No. 40. 2/2 Many of them [women] are Tit Bits. a1814 Last Act Prol. in New Brit. Theatre II. 361 A new tit bit fresh from some author's brain. 1887-9 T. A. TROLLOPE What I remember II. vi. 100 During the singing of the well-known tit-bits of any opera.

c. attrib.

1767 A. CAMPBELL Lexiph. (1774) 56 We expedited ambassadors with plenary powers to procure us buttered buns,..tart tit-bit tartlets. 1820 T. MITCHELL Aristoph. I. 167 Such dainty little schemessuch tit-bit thoughts. 1900 Jrnl. Sch. Geog. (U.S.) June 240 The danger..is that it should lead to the application of the tit-bits method to the teaching of geography.

Hence tit-bitical, tit-bitty adjs. (nonce-wds.), of the nature of, consisting or full of tit-bits.

1887 GURNEY Tertium Quid II. 24 He is really the tit-bittiest of composers. 1890 Speaker 5 Apr. 369/1 Those journalistic abortions of the tit-bitical kind..now so common. 1899 J. G. MILLAIS Life Sir J. E. Millais I. iii. 81 Every tit-bitty paper..repeated the tale.

 

[snooper]

... Until about 10 years ago London Taxi Drivers were required to carry a bale of hay for their horse even if their taxi-cab ran on diesel fuel. ...

At the same time they lost the right to urinate in the street on the off-side front wheel of their vehicle. This was permitted because the horse might bolt if they left it unattended.

To this day it is illegal for a PSV (bus or coach) in the UK to be left without a driver while there are passengers on board, again lest the horse bolt.

In the UK a pregnant woman can demand that any PSV stop at a public toilet and wait for her while she uses the loo.

BEWARE Californians: Arnie has just signed a new law which makes necrophilia a criminal offence in CA. Is this only the start, I wonder? What next? Banning cannibalism perhaps?