Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sbcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!sbcs!debray From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: laws Message-ID: <594@sbcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 13:38:51 EST Article-I.D.: sbcs.594 Posted: Mon Feb 20 13:38:51 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Feb-84 04:57:14 EST Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook Lines: 53 A survey of some laws that are still on the books: - An old Riverside, California, health ordinance does not allow two people to kiss each other on the lips until the two parties first clean their lips with carbolated rose water. - Indiana law does not allow a man to wear a moustache if he "habitually kisses human beings". - An all-but-forgotten law in Owenboro, Kentucky, states that if a woman wants to buy a new hat, her husband must try it on first. - A section of the municipal code in Ottumwa, Iowa: "It is unlawful for any male person, within the corporate limits of the city, to wink at any female with whom he is unacquainted." - Orange County, New York, has a law that forbids a man's looking at a girl "that way". - It's against the law to whistle at a girl in Abilene, Texas, and tickling a girl with a feather duster is illegal in Portland, Maine. - No liquor may be sold to a married man in Cold Springs, Pennsylvania, unless he first obtains the written consent of his wife. - Macon, Georgia, doesn't allow a man to put his arms around a woman without a legal reason to do so. - In Boston you must secure a license from City Hall in order to legally serenade your girlfriend (or, presumably, boyfriend) beneath her window. - In Lebanon, Tenessee, a husband may not legally shove his wife out of bed, even if her feet are cold. On the other hand, the same law allows a wife to shove her husband out of bed at any time without reason. - An 1864 federal law allowed a woman to get a divorce merely because her husband was in the military. - In Minnesota it is considered a legal proposal of marriage to do any of the following in the presence of the girl's father and mother: hug the girl, kiss the girl, or present her with a box of candy. [from: "The Old Farmer's 1984 Almanac" by Robert B. Thomas] -- Saumya Debray Dept. of Computer Science SUNY at Stony Brook uucp: {floyd, cbosgd, ihnp4, mcvax, cmcl2}!philabs \ !allegra > !sbcs!debray {teklabs, hp-pcd, metheus}!ogcvax / CSNet: debray@suny-sbcs@CSNet-Relay