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That does seem really stupid. Isn't Oklahoma the state where they still
allow cockfighting? Seems they have their priorities mixed up. Actually, cockfighting has been against the law for awhile, but raising and fighting birds was legal. So, what do they think the people raising the birds planned to do with them, if not fight them to the death? Anyway, voters banned raising them in a recent election. Unbelievably to me, the cockfighters have a powerful lobby who are still fighting to get the ban overturned. But, for now at least, it's against the law to raise the birds as well as fight them. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky Oh no. Now ya'll have done it. You got me on my soapbox again. I worked my b*tt off on that campaign and circulated the petition, wrote letters, contacted legislators. We got the issue on the ballot. The people voted, but the majority did *not* rule. In all my naivete, I thought that's the way a democracy works, but the Gamefowl Association is so powerful. The issue is still tied up in the courts, who will decide whether cockfighting *now* will be a county-by-counyt issue; with the counties (rural) that originally defeated the measure will still allow cockfighting. I still have faith that this is just a stall tactic and the supreme court won't overturn it. It will be a sad day if a "vote of the people" is overturned by the Supreme court. Sherry |
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That must have been really interesting!
Best wishes, -- Polonca & Soncek "badwilson" wrote in message ... snip One day I noticed something funny about his arm, where his sleeve had ridden up. I asked him if he had a tattoo. He was kind of embarrassed at first but then everyone showed so much interest that he told us that his whole upper body was tattooed like a jungle scene. We ended up posting a lookout at the door and he took off his shirt to reveal the jungle scene. It was amazing, with tigers and leopards, etc. After that all we could talk about was tattoos and not much photocopier business went on that afternoon ;-) |
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Sherry wrote:
Tattooing is illegal in Oklahoma? I've never heard that one. Do you mean for cats and other animals, or for humans too? What if you already have a tattoo, can you not go to Oklahoma? Do they have a lot of laser tattoo removal clinics there? The mind boggles... -- Britta Yes, human tattooing is illegal here! Is that not the stupidest thing? You can carry a gun, drive 75 miles an hour, but you can't get a tattoo. Go figure. Sherry What about piercings? Kristy curious -- (( /\ /\ )) /@ @\ (( \ _* _/\\\\\\ / * \ / \ /\ / \ // / \ // | | | | | |/ # # # # *Bomber* |
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Yes, human tattooing is illegal here! Is that not the stupidest
thing? You can carry a gun, drive 75 miles an hour, but you can't get a tattoo. Go figure. Sherry What about piercings? Kristy curious I guess they're legal....you can get your ears pierced at the mall anyway. I don't know who does eyebrow, nipple, tongue, nose, etc.etc. piercings. But you sure do see a lot of it, so they're doing it somewhere. Sherry |
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wrote in message SNIP I've never been that tempted to get a tattoo myself, partly because I know it's painful (and I'm a wuss), and partly because of a fear of getting a bloodborne disease. SNIP I agree, the pain and disease factor puts me off. Although the other day I drove by a tatoo parlor on my way home, and I nearly turned in and got one.. thinking "Oh, just a small one would be cool.". Then I slapped that mid-life crisis right back into submission and headed on home. It's one thing to suddenly find myself going out weekends and dancing and drinking and wearing 'sexy' clothes again (DH says "You do remember we're not 21 anymore, right?).. it's another thing altogether to get a friggin tattoo!!!!! Stacey |
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 04:34:32 GMT, "Stacey"
yodeled: wrote in message SNIP I've never been that tempted to get a tattoo myself, partly because I know it's painful (and I'm a wuss), and partly because of a fear of getting a bloodborne disease. SNIP I agree, the pain and disease factor puts me off. Although the other day I drove by a tatoo parlor on my way home, and I nearly turned in and got one.. thinking "Oh, just a small one would be cool.". Then I slapped that mid-life crisis right back into submission and headed on home. It's one thing to suddenly find myself going out weekends and dancing and drinking and wearing 'sexy' clothes again (DH says "You do remember we're not 21 anymore, right?).. Sounds like a "Honeymooners" episode! Theresa alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. (Aldous Huxley) |
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