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Bazile | 01:38 Thu 08th Nov 2007 | News
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With our legal system ( or parts of it ...... 28 days , 56 days , or is it 250 days , you know what i'm on about ) currently being so topical , should we also be debating in parliament , the follolwing laws which has not been repealed

- Prohibition on perishing within the palace of westminster

- It is an act of treason to use a postage stamp upside down

- Women are banned from going topless in public , in Liverpool ; unless they are clerks in a tropical fish shop.
( by the way are there any women in liverpool that one would wish to see topless ?... just asking )

- it is illegal to eat a mince pie on christmas day
( courtesy of Oliver Cromwell )

- If someone needing the toilet knocks on your door in scotland , you are required to let them in

- pregnant women are allowed to pee anywhere - even in a policeman's helmet

- the head of any dead whale found on the british coast automatically becomes the property of the king , and the tail the property of the queen

- it is illegal not to tell the taxman anything you do not want him to know , but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing

- it is illegal to enter the houses of parliament wearing a suit of armour

- it is legal to murder a scotsman within the ancient city walls of York , but only If he is carrying a bow and arrow ( Has anyone spotted that so unfunny Billy Connoly in york recently , carrying a bow and arrow ?)
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It's illegal to sell fish and chips on a Sunday.

This dates back to the days when there was no suitable refrigeration and so the fish would go off. It was never repealed though.
cambus is dead on... you guys really need your sports section back... Star trek, boobies and compettivie type things all in one place!
China, just shup up and make my dinner woman - I'll be home by 6

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