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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.)

                           *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

 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?)

                           *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *

  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?)

                           *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

       The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.!

                     (Much worse than "going blind!")

                           *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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?)

                           *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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!)

                           *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in
tropical
                               fish stores.

                             (But of course!)

                           *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

  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.)

                            *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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!)

                           *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

                  Banging your head against a wall uses

                          150 calories an hour.

                     (Who volunteers for this stuff?)

                           *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

   Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for
pleasure.

                (Is that why Flipper was always smiling?)

                           *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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??)

                           *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

                    Butterflies taste with their feet.

                               (Ah, geez.)

                           *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

               An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.!

                     (I know some people like that.)

                           *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

                       Starfish don't have brains.

                   (I know some people like that, too.)

                           *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

                         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
>
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>
>               (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?
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>>
>>               (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
>
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>               (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:
>
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>>               (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.
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> >
> > 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.
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>>>
>>> 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.
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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:
>
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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:
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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
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>> 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
>
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>
>               (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.
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>
> 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,
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>
> 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
>
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>
>              (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,
>
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>
> 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
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>>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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