Tigers, snowmobiles, Sudafed: There oughta (not) be a law

Peoria Journal Star ^ | 23 January 2005 | Bill Winter

[day10]

I am out of the loop here - who is Denny Crane?

[datura]

Or at least give it cancer. Oh wait, we have politicians we actually pay to act as cancers. Never mind.

[longshadow]

And applying that to women, their genitals should be licensed and registered since they have the potential to be prostitutes.

Wow; you're thinking just like a politician! Are you SURE you're not a member of the Louisiana Legislature?

;-)

[Gabz]

He's right; but American legislatures think we're too stupid to make it through life without their benevolent oversight.

Sad, isn't it?

[gridlock]

I'll stick to charcoal.

Good thing you don't live in Southern California, where charcoal grills are verboten...

[Doctor Stochastic]

Don't be crabby.

[longshadow]

Perhaps there should be a cap on the total number of federal and state laws so that these folks would have to go through the old ones and throw out the ones that are obsolete.

I like your idea.

But the act of proposing it clearly disqualifies you from being a member of an "enlightened" legislature yearning to coddle the soiled masses from cradle to grave....

[longshadow]

Don't be crabby.

I'm sorry, but unless you are duly licensed by the state to practice Astrology, it is forbidden for you yo make astrological allusion on the internet. Someone could get hurt, you know!

< /Lunatic legislator mode>

[from occupied ga]

North Dakota has the cold medicine law too. It's ridiculous.

So does georgia. This one not the ex-Soviet one.

[Fiddlstix]

What can be done? As a good American, my first thought was that we should pass a new law - making it illegal for politicians to pass so many new laws......

I'd vote for that.

Then again, how about a new law making politicians illegal. lol
I'd vote for that too.

[Fudd]

The solution is to put a per-word tax on legislation, to be paid by the legislators. A bill passes the House? That will be $439.07, from every member.

[Fudd]

who is Denny Crane?

I hear he was a sniper in the Marines...

Or was it a pilot?

PULL!

[TomGuy]

In Illinois, it's now a crime to buy more than two packages of over-the-counter cold medication at a time.

Arkansas and Oklahoma have similar idiocy. Cold meds are required to be kept behind the counter or in the storage room. Signs are posted to 'ask clerk' for them. By the time I get to the checkout, I've forgotten to ask. Ironically, I don't think the drug stores or pharmacy sections of stores are required to keep them under lock and key.

[PatrickHenry]

THE INDIANA PI LAW.

[vetvetdoug]

Lawmakers or government workers justifying their existence.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Bach would have been in trouble.

[olivia3boys]

I have a hard time with the cold medicine law in CA. My 3 boys' ages necessitate the purchase of 3 different strengths of cold medicine, so when they all get colds I am prohibited from buying multiples of the 3 kinds of the medicine I want. (I do like to buy in bulk--their colds can last for 10 days easy!)

What I do is pick several different strengths of several different brands and take them all to the counter, hoping that I can patch together some combination that will pass muster. So the cashier takes away what I'm prohibited from buying.

The whole thing is pretty sad for a non-communist country.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Perhaps if Tulia had these laws, this sort of thing wouldn' happen.

What's with these Panhandle names? (Tula Ellice Finklea for example.)

[olivia3boys]

Can I also complain about toilet laws?

When I'm pregnant my BMs get, um, really big and bulky--something about the digestive system slowing down.

Yesterday it took me THREE flushes, not two, to do my business without stopping up the toilet.