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20 August 2005

10 things. (including: It takes a gallon of oil to make three fake fur coats)

post by: seanyboy at: 21:37 | 13 comments

I am totally buying #1 for my dad for Christmas.

posted by jrossi4r 20 August | 21:39

I am right there behind you jrossi.

(Well, not RIGHT behind you. More like over to the side)

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 20 August | 22:31

i never heard of simony--weird.

posted by amberglow 20 August | 22:39

Didn't know simony, but my favorite obscure crime is actually called "mayhem" -- whereby you are charged with "rendering a person unfit for battle" (the classic case involved poking a soldier in the eye with finger the night before a mission).

I just like the name. If I were to be charged with anything, I'd want it to be mayhem.

posted by dreamsign 20 August | 22:55

mayhem sounds like a good one--is there a bedlam?

posted by amberglow 20 August | 23:31

Isn't bedlam a corruption of "Bethlehem", and a reference to an asylum with that word in the name? (he said, without even resorting to Google).

posted by yhbc 20 August | 23:35

One and the same. The hospital was called variously Bethlem, Bethlehem, and Bedlam.

Not a crime as far as I know. Fill yer boots!

posted by dreamsign 20 August | 23:40

but a crime named that would be cool.

"Mr. Smith, you are hereby charged with bedlam in the first degree. How do you plead?"

posted by amberglow 20 August | 23:48

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Order! Order!

posted by dreamsign 20 August | 23:58

My husband was once charged with "violent and tumultuous behavior." We're still not sure what he did that was "tumultuous."

posted by jrossi4r 21 August | 00:13

But you're sure it was violent?

That reminds me of our SCC's words on the death penalty with regard to whether it is "cruel and unusual behaviour" -- it's cruel, but not terribly unusual.

posted by dreamsign 21 August | 00:15

It wasn't very violent. His friend got into a barfight and my husband broke it up by throwing the aggressor in a dumpster, which effectively neutralized the situation.

posted by jrossi4r 21 August | 00:33

"contributing to the delinquency of a minor" sounds to me like something you'd use PayPal for...

posted by wendell 21 August | 15:32

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