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jbwhttail - 14 Aug 2006 23:12 GMT Proof That The World Is Nuts
In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death.
(Like THAT makes sense.)
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In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman's genitals, but is prohibited from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror.
(Do they look different reversed?)
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Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers. The sex organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times.
(A brick?)
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The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.!
(Much worse than "going blind!")
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There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time
Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry.
(Le! t's just think for a minute; is there
any job anywhere else in the world that even comes close to this?)
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In Hong K! ong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands.
The husband's illicit lover, on the other hand, may ! be killed in any manner desired.
(Ah! Justice!)
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Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in tropical fish stores.
(But of course!)
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In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time this happens, her mother must be in the room to witness the act.
(Makes one shudder at the thought.)
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In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, it is illegal for a man to have! sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time.
(I presume this was a big enough problem that they had to pass this law?) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: Prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only "in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the
premises."
(Is this a great country or what?
Well, not as great as Guam!)
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Banging your head against a wall uses
150 calories an hour.
(Who volunteers for this stuff?)
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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(Is that why Flipper was always smiling?)
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The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
(From drinking little bot! tles of???)
(Did the government pay for this research??)
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Ah, geez.)
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.!
(I know some people like that.)
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Starfish don't have brains.
(I know some people like that, too.)
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And, the best for last?
Turtles ! can breathe through their butts.
(And I thought I had bad breath in the morning!)
midlant@earthlink.net - 14 Aug 2006 23:49 GMT How did you enter this into the "search" box on Snopes when checking it for validity? Did you do each one?
Karl
> Proof That The World Is Nuts > [quoted text clipped - 149 lines] > > (And I thought I had bad breath in the morning!) John Poulos - 15 Aug 2006 01:26 GMT Most of it is from the literal translation of weird parts of the Koran, some of which are in the Bible too. We mostly ignore the parts like that, some Moslem's don't. i.e. we don't force rapists to marry their victims, or stone our kids to death for back talking as the Bible commands.
> How did you enter this into the "search" box on Snopes when checking it > for validity? [quoted text clipped - 155 lines] >> >> (And I thought I had bad breath in the morning!)
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John Poulos - 15 Aug 2006 01:19 GMT Here's some strange western Christian ones that the Moslem's wonder about:
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son ... Then shall his father and his mother ... bring him out unto the elders of his city ... And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. -- Deuteronomy 21:18-21 (AV)
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother... -- Matthew 10:34-35 (AV\
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. -- Ezekiel 23:20 (NIV)
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. -- Song of Solomon 5:4 (AV)
> Proof That The World Is Nuts > [quoted text clipped - 149 lines] > > (And I thought I had bad breath in the morning!)
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Lee Aanderud - 15 Aug 2006 02:36 GMT My favorite Bible passage:
Who giveth a sh.t. Noteth I. --Lee 10:1-2
Lee
> Here's some strange western Christian ones that the Moslem's wonder about: > [quoted text clipped - 169 lines] >> >> (And I thought I had bad breath in the morning!) Tony in Austin - 15 Aug 2006 02:49 GMT A thoughtful discussion gentlemen. But I am too distracted trying to figure out how to emigrate to Guam. I wonder if that job is posted on Craig's List?
Tony in Austin
Jeff DeWitt - 15 Aug 2006 03:09 GMT Last I looked Guam is an American Territory, if you want to move there the hard part is getting your stuff shipped halfway around the world.
http://ns.gov.gu/
Jeff DeWitt
> A thoughtful discussion gentlemen. But I am too distracted trying to > figure out how to emigrate to Guam. I wonder if that job is posted on > Craig's List? > > Tony in Austin Grumpy AuContraire - 15 Aug 2006 04:34 GMT Guam is a pretty active port with direct access to the Far East. Several ocean going lines serve the island.
JT
> Last I looked Guam is an American Territory, if you want to move there > the hard part is getting your stuff shipped halfway around the world. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > > > Tony in Austin John Poulos - 15 Aug 2006 04:40 GMT I bought a Nikon camera at the Navy exchange on Guam when I was on my Vietnam deployment. That's about all I saw of the place.
> Guam is a pretty active port with direct access to the Far East. > Several ocean going lines serve the island. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >>> >>> Tony in Austin
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Paul Johnson - 15 Aug 2006 13:07 GMT > I bought a Nikon camera at the Navy exchange on Guam when I was on my > Vietnam deployment. That's about all I saw of the place. Still have part of a bottle of Remy Martin cognac I bought there duty free in the 70s. Didn't know I wouldn't like it, but it's well-aged now. Paul Johnson
Grumpy AuContraire - 15 Aug 2006 18:04 GMT > > I bought a Nikon camera at the Navy exchange on Guam when I was on my > > Vietnam deployment. That's about all I saw of the place. > > > Still have part of a bottle of Remy Martin cognac I bought there duty free > in the 70s. Didn't know I wouldn't like it, but it's well-aged now. > Paul Johnson Referring to my post regarding Kwajalein, while there, I acquired a taste for Lancer's Vin Rose and at eighteen bux a case, it was quite a bargain. Recreation of choice on non-diving days...
JT
Grumpy AuContraire - 15 Aug 2006 18:01 GMT My first overseas contract was on Kwajalein in early 1967. One clerk at Macy's (civilian equivalent of a PX) was a guy who was in my unit in 'nam. BTW, at that time, fully 1% of Nikon's production was sold on Kwajalein which also boasted the largest active sport SCUBA club in the world.
JT
(Who still has three portholes from sunken Japanese freightors...)
> I bought a Nikon camera at the Navy exchange on Guam when I was on > my Vietnam deployment. That's about all I saw of the place. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > 62 Lark 2 door > 60 Hawk Grumpy AuContraire - 15 Aug 2006 04:32 GMT Having spent time on Guam, a U.S. Territory, I seriously doubt the autheticity of that statement... Or izzit that I never looked close enough to notice???
JT
> A thoughtful discussion gentlemen. But I am too distracted trying to > figure out how to emigrate to Guam. I wonder if that job is posted on > Craig's List? > > Tony in Austin John Poulos - 15 Aug 2006 03:03 GMT Lee, that's close to a quote from Mark Twain that is food for thought:
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.
Now I'll quit, cause you are right.
> My favorite Bible passage: > [quoted text clipped - 176 lines] >>> >>> (And I thought I had bad breath in the morning!)
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Jeff Rice - 15 Aug 2006 03:11 GMT My favorite passage is: Thou should mark thy post OT, or thy shalt be castigated and infested with a plague of rust worms.
"Lee Aanderud" wrote...
> My favorite Bible passage: <snip>
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Lee Aanderud - 15 Aug 2006 03:33 GMT Okay Sonny. <G>
Lee
> My favorite passage is: > Thou should mark thy post OT, or thy shalt be castigated and infested with [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> My favorite Bible passage: > <snip> Jeff DeWitt - 15 Aug 2006 01:35 GMT I expect that with many of these strange religious rules something was lost in the translation.
And some of the old rules made sense, if you ate pork you could get worms, if you ate shell fish you could get sick to, if a guy had sex with another guy not only could they catch some unpleasant diseases but it would also work against the "be fruitful and multiply" thing.
Some of those rules (SOME of them) that made sense years ago don't make much sense today.
Jeff DeWitt
> Proof That The World Is Nuts > [quoted text clipped - 149 lines] > > (And I thought I had bad breath in the morning!) John Poulos - 15 Aug 2006 01:53 GMT So true, but I hate when they pick and chose the ones that "make sense" to them. Years ago, they'd quote the Bible to support slavery, now they quote the stuff against women talking in church, or the gay stuff, when the next line says something really silly. i.e., the gay thing in Leviticus is followed by a note that a woman is unclean for a month after giving birth to a boy and 2 months for a girl.
> I expect that with many of these strange religious rules something was > lost in the translation. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Jeff DeWitt
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Comatus@bex.net - 15 Aug 2006 02:44 GMT > So true, but I hate when they pick and chose the ones that "make > sense" to them. Years ago, they'd quote the Bible to support slavery, > now they quote the stuff against women talking in church, or the gay > stuff, when the next line says something really silly. i.e., the gay > thing in Leviticus is followed by a note that a woman is unclean for a > month after giving birth to a boy and 2 months for a girl. So true, BUT whilst thou beholdest the mote that is in thy brother's eye, take a good close read of the United Nations charter, and its concomitant resolutions, some time, keeping in mind the US as we knew it. Very few of us are thoroughgoing skeptics or cynics. In the 60's, we had some prominent intellectuals who made a career logically justfiying every single line of Marx, because Marx (or Marcuse, or Che) couldn't be wrong about anything. Engels turned out to be right about that dialectic thing: the clash of opposition synthesized a new faith. And then Gore made that movie. Disagreeing with correct modern broadminded orthodoxy will get you stoned just as surely as marring the corners of thy beard did in the day of Leviticus. An ox-gored Citizen of the World is just as narrow and vindictive as Pastors Dobson or Robertson.
Just sayin.
Jeff DeWitt - 15 Aug 2006 03:03 GMT True enough, but at least these days the stoning isn't literal!
Jeff DeWitt
>> So true, but I hate when they pick and chose the ones that "make >>sense" to them. Years ago, they'd quote the Bible to support slavery, [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Just sayin. 64daytonaht - 15 Aug 2006 02:54 GMT Your little ditty about the job in Guam is false.
Bo
> Proof That The World Is Nuts > [quoted text clipped - 149 lines] > > (And I thought I had bad breath in the morning!) Lark Parker - 15 Aug 2006 20:49 GMT Hi Joe,
I was cruising by the site and saw your name on a thread.
My fault -- I should have warned you about the tendency here. Unless amusement/humor posts are about body functions ( farting, crapping, etc ) it may get dissected here until you learn your lesson. As you get close to the subjects of religion, politics or Chevy motors, your offering will get ravaged, or perhaps supported, by even larger numbers. All humor is generally removed by that time.
Take a look at the "humor" titled thread (Tiger, golf tees, Ford/Buick) and learn from that example. It probably appeared safe enough to the originator but he also had the gall to post it without a thorough fact check.
Body functions seem to get by without fact checking but, even then, if one were to exaggerate his prowess, perhaps for the sake of humor, the Journal of Medicine, Snopes or Wiki Pedia could be brought in to attack the impossibility of the claim.
I will monitor the site and look forward to your next attempt.
Good luck, Joe, and remember to spell check as that can be part of the critique.
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midlant@earthlink.net - 16 Aug 2006 00:30 GMT I hope that we haven't scared him away, Lark. There is such a fabulous fund of information available herein at the drop of a quesstion that I feel sorry for the other 10,000 SDC members who aren't here.
Remember when we had a few score brief bios here at the beginning of 2004 or 2005? I know of others with interesrting ones who didn't enter. And all these were actual people. I wonder what pasts the imaginary folks have going for them. Karl
> Hi Joe, > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Good luck, Joe, and remember to spell check as that can be part of the critique. Lark Parker - 16 Aug 2006 01:25 GMT I doubt it, Karl. Joe is a tough confident sort not likely to leave because of this stuff. I was just ribbing him a bit. He is in my SDC Chapter.
I remember the bios and probably still have them. I copied them in case I was doing their stainless I might "presume" something about their standard of car appearance. Also, I have been known to give a working guy a price break. I ended up not using the bios as I knew I was stretching to assume they wouldn't want a "perfect" piece for their race car or driver. I rely on conversations now.
>I hope that we haven't scared him away, Lark. >There is such a fabulous fund of information available herein at the [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] >> >>Good luck, Joe, and remember to spell check as that can be part of the critique.
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Dave's Place - 16 Aug 2006 01:25 GMT > I will monitor the site and look forward to your next attempt. > > Good luck, Joe, and remember to spell check as that can be part of the critique. In my next life, I want Lark's brain!
Thanks, Lark!
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