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- From: meep@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (A Son of the Silent Age)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc.jobs.offered,misc.test,rec.pets,alt.sex,rec.humor
- Subject: Re: **BIZARRE LAWS***
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 16:36:53 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- References: <1992Nov18.015253.8426@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1egr5fINN65s@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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- In article <1egr5fINN65s@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk> cstadba@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr C D Ward) writes:
- >
- >In England every able bodied man is required to practice archery with
- >a long bow for at least two hours every Sunday !!!
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- I thought it was _every day_, but I could easily be wrong...
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- >The only capital offence left in England is stealing from Her Majesty's
- >dockyards.
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- Isn't defamation of Royal character still technically a hanging offense?
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- While we're on the silly laws subject, is the "rule of thumb" still on the
- books in England? Anyone?
-
- Doug
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