I rather like the idea of being able to murder Scotsmen in York. I may try it somebody.
And I'm absolutely in favour of herding cattle through London's streets. The more the merrier. It used to be quite common, bringing them to Smithfield along the drovers' roads. Shakespeare used to live on Silver Street in London, which had previously been part of a road leading from near Cripplegate to Smithfield and was then called Addle Street, a name derived from Anglo-Saxon adel, meaning cow dung. This probably explains in part why it is against the law to herd them through London. Don McCullin took a wonderful picture in the 1960s of someone driving sheep through London to the market in the early dawn light. Unfortunately I can't find it on the net to show. Oddly enough, now that I think about it, a couple of years ago I was looking up some Victorian court records for some reason and found that someone with my surname had been executed for selling a cow he didn't own from Smithfield, so perhaps it's not a good idea after all. -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 November 2007 20:46 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: OT: The law is not an ass > > Agreed. I doubt that few would come out in favor of herding > cattle down London streets. But not many would many object to > tropical fish store clerks going topless in Liverpool. Good > photo op. And I'm not suprised to hear that the Queen's tail > is the proplerty of the king :-). > Paul > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Some of these so-called silly laws seem remarkably useful to me: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7081038.stm > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow > > the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
