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Ever been sitting in front of a computer and thought, "I could really do with some pointless lists...." Well, look no further! |
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The Top 20 Things to do with Laws
1. In 1837 a British Judge ruled that if a man
kissed a woman against her will she was legally allowed to bite his
nose off.
2. In Vermont it is illegal to deny the existence of God.
3. It is against the law to yell out "Snake!" within the city limits of
Flowery Branch, Georgia.
4.
In Pennsylvania: "Any motorist who sights a team of horses coming
toward him must pull well off the road, cover his car with a blanket or
canvas that blends with the countryside, and let the horses pass. If
the horses appear skittish, the motorist must take his car apart piece
by piece, and hide it under the nearest bushes."
5. In Texas it is illegal to have sex with a fish, in Florida it is
illegal to get a fish drunk, and N.Carolina thought both laws were good
so in NC it is illegal to have sex with a drunk fish .
6. In Riverside, California, there is an old law on the city's books
which makes it illegal to kiss unless both people wipe their lips with
rose water.
7. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
8. In Alaska, it is illegal to look at a moose from the window of an
airplane or any other flying vehicle.
9. It is illegal to cross the state boundaries of Iowa with a duck on
your head.
10. Sheep theft is still legally a hangable offense in Scotland.
11. In Chester, England, you can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow
and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight.
12. In Liverpool, England it is against the law to have topless
saleswomen. That is, unless they are working in a tropical fish store.
13. In Tennessee, USA, a man must walk in front of any car driven by a
woman, while waving a red flag as a warning.
14. According to 1649 Massachusetts law, punishment for children over
the age of 16 acting stubborn or rebellious was death.
15. The punishment for setting off a nuclear device in Washington DC is a fine of $50,000.
16. A San Diego man sued the city for emotional trauma during a concert
when he saw women using the men's rest room.
17. In Melbourne, Australia it is illegal for men to parade in
strapless dresses; however, they are allowed to cross-dress in anything
with sleeves.
18. It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood
Boulevard at one time.
19. According to Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English.
The officially recognized language is "American."
20. In Texas criminals are required to give their victims 24 hours
notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the
crime to be committed.
And one that isn't technically a law but still good:
1995
-- Recently, Chesapeake, Va., inmate Robert Lee Brock filed a $5
million lawsuit against Robert Lee Brock ,accusing himself of violating
his religious beliefs and his civil rights by getting himself drunk
enough to engage in various crimes. He wrote, "I want to pay myself $5
million [for this breach of rights] but ask the state to pay it in my
behalf since I can't work and am a ward of the state." In April, the
lawsuit was dismissed. | |
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Top 20 Silly Things My Friends Say
1. "Yargh! Someone's thieved me moneys!" - Yasmin
2. "It's like Chavs-On-Ice: The Musical!" - Kieran
3. "Ah, the sweet making of no sense." - Me
4. "I'll have you know that 20% of people have extra-marital relations and THEY'RE all married..." - Ben
5. "And he dialled one...two...triangle!" - Rob
6. "I don't want gay rights at the moment thankyou, I want a haircut!"
- Rhiannon
7. "You're like the magic power ranger of everything!" - Hattie
8. "How do you make love?" - Alice (she got confused after Natasha
wrote 'love' on our props list)
9. "9 out of 10 blind orphans can't tell the difference." - Rob
10. "I find living hard, as a rule." - Ben.
11. "It's like getting blood from a bloody stone..." - Susan a.k.a Adam
(not technically my friend.)
12. "650,000? That's not a real number!" - Alice
13. "This is a victory for people who are me everywhere!" - Me
14. "Poking it does bad things." - James V
15. "What do you mean, a small boiling old man?" - Rob
16. "Of course, we need a common code word. Zbingbong!" - Sarah
17. "Pudding." - Wanda/Me/Rob/James
18. "And a bloooody pencil..." - The very tuneful Rich (not technically
my friend either.)
19. "I can't do funny on impulse!" - Kieran
20. "Are eggs a fruit or a vegetable?" - Yasmin
Plus two random conversations:
Yasmin: Isn't Tom Ashley a girl?
Me: *laughing* No!
Yasmin: Oh! I was thinking of Mary-Kate and Ashley...
Alice: At least he's not an elmo.
Yasmin: Elmo? Like tickle-me-Elmo?
Alice: Oh, no, I mean emo! Emo!
(and a contribution from Gen a.k.a. Mangryspork:)
Cousin: Why is it 9 o'clock in the morning? Is it 9am in America?
Uncle: No, they're on the other side of the world.
Cousin: Do they walk upside-down?
And
finally one from the lovely Ben:
"I think I must be some kind of Jesus, the bullets
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Top 10 Peter Quotes
1. "Ow, my sandbags."
2. "If you don't sit next to Lois the
whole world will be thrown into crayons!"
3. "Do it to Robin, he's black!.... Haired!"
4. "Golden
time was fun. I got to lick stamps."
5. "You
know Somerset?"
6.
"Trampolines are scary. They remind me of the big wide fox."
7. "It's a
picture of the London Eye. No wait, that is a jitterbug."
8.
"At least one year I was the innkeeper's wife."
9. "That's
like calling Robin a cake-sniffer!"
And the
best Peter quote of them all:
10. "At my
cousin's house we had a pillow fight and I was so young I couldn't even
pick up a teabag."
Top 20 Current Favourite Songs of the Hapfairy
1. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Green Day
2. Midnight Show - The Killers
3. Who Are You? - The Who
4. Numb - Linkin Park
5. Move Along - The All American Rejects
6. Pure Morning - Placebo
7. Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day
8. Plug-In Baby - Muse
9. This Love - Maroon 5
10. Chop Suey - System of a Down
11. Always - Blink 182
12. Sugar We're Goin' Down - Fall Out Boy
13. Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
14. The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
15. Teenagers From Mars - The Network
16. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
17. Run - Snow Patrol
18. I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At The Disco
19. Crossing The Frame - Coheed and Cambria
20. Hard Rock Hallelujah - Lordi
Top 5 Favourite Albums of the Hapfairy
1. American Idiot - Green Day (This had a very close fight with Warning and only got picked on an "eeny-meeny-miny-mo" process.)
2. Absolution - Muse
3. Hot Fuss - The Killers
4. Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
5. Blink 182 - Blink 182 | |
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Top 20 Insane Death Stories
1. Erwin, TN is the only place where an elephant has been hanged for
murder.
2. The
world's worst lifeguard has to be Lorenzo Trippi of Ravenna, Italy.
In 1995, three people on three separate occasions wound up dead thanks
to Lorenzo's efforts to save them. In each case, he hit all three of
them on the head with his life preserver, causing them to black out and
drown.
3. A poodle
fell from a balcony in Buenos Aires in October 1988. It killed
three people. One was struck on the head, the second run over by a bus
while watching, the third witnessed the event and died from a heart
attack.
4. Over 2500
left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right
handed people!
5. In
Britain 2 women, Anuban Bell and Sunee Whitworth, were killed in
1999 by lightning conducted through their underwire bras, according to
the West London Coroner's Office.
6. More
people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
7. On
average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
8. In 1980,
the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under frozen
foods.
9. American
rock musician, Terry Kath, died in 1978 while playing Russian
Roulette. His last words were 'Don't worry it's not loaded.'
10. More
people are killed each year by coconuts than sharks.
11. A
lightning strike in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed all 11
members of one soccer team while leaving the opposing team in the match
untouched, leading to accusations of witchcraft by the survivors.
12. At
President Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845 his pet parrot was removed
for swearing.
13. Your
statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
14. In the
90s, 37 jet airplane mechanics servicing engines had
accidentally been sucked into the engines and expelled from the rear in
very small chunks.
15. Two
animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending
pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand
of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the
two hapless protesters to death.
16. You are
more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
17. When
doctors in Los Angeles went on strike in 1976, the daily number of
deaths in the city went down.
18. In 1983,
a Mrs. Carson of Lake Kushaqua, N.Y., was laid out in her
coffin, presumed dead of heart disease. As mourners watched, she
suddenly sat up. Her daughter dropped dead of fright; killed by a heart
attack.
19. Four
people every year in the UK die putting their trousers on.
20.
Twenty-one people died and another 150 were injured in Boston, Mass. on
Jan. 15, 1919 as the result of a flood of molasses.
And did you know? Santa Claus is dead and buried in Italy...
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Top 10 Movies
1. The Truman Show
2. Donnie Darko
3. Madagascar
4. Nightmare Before Christmas
5. Monty Python Movies
6. Mean Girls
7. Pirates of the Carribean
8. X Men 2
9. School of Rock
10. Bruce Almighty
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Top 20 Song Lyrics
1. "I wanna be the minority/I don't need your authority/Down with the
moral majority/Cause I wanna be the minority!" - Minority by Green Day
2. "And they're going to bed/And my stomach is sick/And it's all in my
head/But she's touching his...chest" - Mr Brightside by the Killers
(think about it)
3. "I don't mind spending every day/Out on your corner in the pouring
rain/Look for the girl with the broken smile/Ask her if she wants to
stay a while" - She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5
4. "She almost went on to be Miss Texas/But lost to a slut with much bigger breasts...es..." - Almost by Bowling For Soup
5. "And the funny thing is my
friends/That song we played on that fateful night/Didn't actually sound
anything like this song!" - Tribute by Tenacious D
6. "I'm the son of rage and love/The Jesus of Suburbia/From the bible of none of the above" - Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day
7. "Let me entertain you.." By Robbie Williams, but I'm referring to the Heat version...
8. "And this little weirdo would be a modestly hot girl..." - Different Town by StrongBad :-P
9. "Nobody knows it/But you have a secret smile/And you use it only for me" - Secret Smile by Semisonic
10. "You'll follow me back with the sun in your eyes/And on your own/Bedshaped/And legs of stone" - Bedshaped by Keane
11. "Banana banana banana terracotta banana terrecotta terracotta pie!" - Vicinity of Obscenity by System Of A Down
12. "Sanitation/Expiration date/Question EVERYTHING/Or shut up and be/A victim of authority" - Warning by Green Day
13. "And the three men I admire most/The father, son and holy ghost/Caught the last train to the
coast/The day the music died" - American Pie by Don Mclean
14. "Tents are blowing round my head/The wind is driving me insane/But
the pie shop was empty/So Smokey Bear said..." - Ooh Ahh Baby by the
Butt Monkeys
15. "Milk/Rectangles/To an optometrist!" - Frontier Psychiatrist by the Avalanches
16. "And she's holding on my heart like a hand grenade" - She's A Rebel by Green Day
17. "Stand up beside the fireplace/Take that look from off your
face/You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out" - Don't Look Back In Anger
by Oasis
18. "Watching the people get lairy/It's not very pretty I tell
thee/Walking through town is quite scary/It's not very sensible
either..." - I Predict A Riot by the Kaiser
19. "I'll go anywhere/So I'll see you there" - Poprocks & Coke by Green Day
20. "I took my baby's breath/Beneath the chandelier/Of stars and atmosphere/And watched her
disappear/Into the Midnight Show..." - Midnight Show by The Killers (that's my favourite song lyric ever. ^_^)
Most
silly facts on this page were obtained from one of the Hapfairy's
favourite sites, Snowy's Silly Facts.
(http://www.geocities.com/snowyssillyfacts)
©
HapFairy Productions 2006, SCE |
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