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Old 02-02-2010, 04:51 PM   #16
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...True story (unlike the masturbation thing I just mentioned):

As part of the settlement of a copyright infringement suit Disney Studios launched against Marvel Comics, Howard the Duck (who admittedly looks a LOT like Donald Duck), is now legally required to wear pants.
From Was Superman a Spy? by Brian Cronin:

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Disney felt that Howard too closely resembled Donald Duck, and it wanted Marvel to change his appearance. Amazingly, Marvel agreed to a settlement in which a Disney artist did a redesign of Howard (one of the major points was that Howard had to wear pants) and Marvel had to agree to stick to that design.
(Just posted that to let folks here know that occasionally I say things that are true.)
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Old 02-03-2010, 02:18 AM   #17
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In the U.S., or at least where I live, an upside-down stamp means "I love you" and traditionally adorns love letters.
I hadn't heard of this; so then I found these other Postage Stamp Position Meanings.

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I once knew a man who was arrested for masturbating. To me, such laws are absurd. None of the other folks on the bus complained.


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As part of the settlement of a copyright infringement suit Disney Studios launched against Marvel Comics, Howard the Duck (who admittedly looks a LOT like Donald Duck), is now legally required to wear pants.
Apart from Donald being short-tempered, he is a bit of a show-off.
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Old 02-03-2010, 03:02 AM   #18
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I'm often in another dimension, but I'm in this one for now. Nice to meet you too.


Not sure if you're being facetious about Murphy or not, so in case you're serious to any degree . . .


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law


and if you ARE joking, then . . .
Second option.
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I think Littlewood's Law may be more useful than Murphy's.

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Littlewood's Law states that individuals can expect a "miracle" to happen to them at the rate of about one per month.

Littlewood defines a miracle as an exceptional event of special significance occurring at a frequency of one in a million. He assumes that during the hours in which a human is awake and alert, a human will experience one event per second, which may either be exceptional or unexceptional (for instance, seeing the computer screen, the keyboard, the mouse, the article, etc.). Additionally, Littlewood supposes that a human is alert for about eight hours per day.

As a result, a human will, in 35 days, have experienced, under these suppositions, 1,008,000 events. Accepting this definition of a miracle, one can be expected to observe one miraculous occurrence within the passing of every 35 consecutive days – and therefore, according to this reasoning, seemingly miraculous events are actually commonplace.
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Old 02-03-2010, 07:18 AM   #19
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Among the most ridiculous laws listed by UKTV Gold were:
It's still all a load of rubbish, whatever UKTV Gold says.
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Old 02-03-2010, 08:03 AM   #20
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It's still all a load of rubbish, whatever UKTV Gold says.
But it also has the BBC stamp of approval, judging by the statement at the bottom of the page:
"This is an amended version of an earlier story which included several examples of laws from the survey which we have been unable to verify, and these have been removed."

It seems they verified the 'stamp' law (and the pregnant woman one).
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Old 02-03-2010, 08:45 AM   #21
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What If you put the return address for someone you dont like on a bogus letter, do the stamp trick, and drop off the letter in a public mail box?
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Old 02-03-2010, 08:57 AM   #22
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By gum! It's the perfect murder!!
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Old 02-03-2010, 09:15 AM   #23
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Flip the stamp!
Try it out and let us know how it goes, HT! Make sure to leave no fingerprints and don't get a stamp you have to lick the back of...this could leave your tongue juice's DNA.
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Old 02-03-2010, 09:23 AM   #24
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I will let my dog lick the stamp for me. He is wanted in 5 states.
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Old 02-03-2010, 09:26 AM   #25
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Old 02-03-2010, 05:01 PM   #26
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I will let my dog lick the stamp for me. He is wanted in 5 states.
Poor little fella. It's today's parents that are the problem you know.
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