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September 12th, 2005   Post 31
Marinerhodes
Tribunus Laticlavius
 
 
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In Louisiana:


Law: It is illegal to be an alcoholic.

Country: United States


City: Sulphur

Citation: Sec. 8-135. Vagrancy.

Vagrancy is hereby declared to be unlawful and the following persons are and shall be guilty of vagrancy:

(1) Habitual drunkards;

(Code 1970, ? 10-60)
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September 12th, 2005   Post 32
Marinerhodes
Tribunus Laticlavius
 
 
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The only animal, besides humans that can get leprosy is the Armadillo.
 
September 12th, 2005   Post 33
Marinerhodes
Tribunus Laticlavius
 
 
Gear

A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless.

Morbid
 
September 12th, 2005   Post 34
LIPS
Tribuni Angusticlavii
 
 
The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.
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September 12th, 2005   Post 35
Missileer
Nuclear Duck Hunter
 
 
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In the early days of denim jeans, the left thigh was cut a little larger than the right (that came straight from an old millworker).
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“War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.”
—John Stuart Mill
 
September 12th, 2005   Post 36
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
 
 
Gear

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
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"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarskopf, Commander of Desert Storm Operations
 
September 12th, 2005   Post 37
Spartacus
Primus Pilus
 
 
Gear

In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
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Qui tacet consentire.
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
Nec Aspera Terrent.
Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur.
 
September 12th, 2005   Post 38
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
 
 
Gear

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
 
September 12th, 2005   Post 39
Charge 7
Master Gunner
 
 
Dogs are genetically identical to wolves. They show no greater varience than one species of wolf does from another.
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"Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings."

- Frederick the Great, King of Prussia

 
September 13th, 2005   Post 40
ghost457
Primus Pilus
 
 
In the American Civil War Union and Confederate soldiers would trade tobacco and coffee by using small boats to float the items across the river