I am home on fall break, and it is blissful and lovely. And I’m enjoying the break from flatlands heat as well. It has been misty and rainy here, and I love it, even though it makes me sleepy and lazy. I’ll post some fog photos soon. Next week will be awful, because I have a 15 page paper, an impossibly difficult sculpture, and a painting due, and I also have to register for classes and take a nasty little Spanish exam. But I’m enjoying the time I have to relax.
The Friday Fact this weeks is brought to you by the back of my bedroom door, which is completely covered in interesting newspaper clippings, comic strips, trinkets, and random, hilarious doodles. This is from something I clipped out of the N&O Mini Page way yonder back in middle school. You’ve got to wonder what prompted state legislatures to create some of these laws and how much of our tax money is devoted to the creation of said laws.
Some unbelievable, and very real, laws:
- It’s against the law to mispronounce “Arkansas” when you’re in that state.
- If you complain about a pothole in Baton Rouge, LA, you can be forced to fix it yourself.
- It’s illegal to educate your dog in Hartford, CT.
- You can be arrested for carrying bees in your hat in Lawrence, KS.
- In order to legally go barefoot in Austin, TX, you need a $5 permit.
- It’s illegal for goats to wear trousers in Massachusetts.
October 20, 2007 at 12:27 am |
There are tons of these sorts of laws still on the books. I always get a good chuckle from them. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your break. My FF is up at http://www.spatter.typepad.com
October 20, 2007 at 2:41 pm |
And it has been blissful and lovely to have you home, babygirl. Our house is entirely too quiet without you and Benjamin here. Great Friday Fact! Let me say here that you most certainly have the most creative and interesting bedroom door ever in the history of doordom–front and back. Your door says. “An artist lives here.” So what would you say our refrigerator door says about us as a family? Hee, hee.
October 22, 2007 at 1:34 am |
What fools these be
That these rules make
Because, you see
They’re made to break.
I’ll buy my goat
Some fancy pants
Or a fine tweed coat
Who says I can’t?
I’m usually quite compliant
(Neither naughty nor rude)
But such rules make me defiant
And preclude my rectitude.
October 27, 2007 at 3:58 pm |
Haha! Now I’m just waiting for food laws to pop up…(i.e., in Wisconsin you must eat cheese alone, not as a topping or supplement…)
November 15, 2007 at 11:01 pm |
But everyone gets off scot free when they mispronounced my home state of Massachusetts. In Texas many call it Massa-two-sets!