Reply to: Immigration officer exiles wife **WARNING - BIOHAZARD**

[OwlHoot]

.. I gather Feynman used to read insurance agreements (or something of that ilk) for fun.

Richard Feynman also consulted at the clientco where I'm starting a new gig next week. I wonder if I'll get his old office.

[TimberWolf]

That's a classic, somewhat like the House of Commons clerk back in the 1840s.

Before 1865 a divorce needed an Act of Parliament, and this guy had the idea of popping into the most boring bill he could find, to be read at 2am when the handful of MPs present would be pissed as newts, a brief clause divorcing his wife. I think it worked too.

Google let me down on this occasion, but I made up a similar example using the Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845



See if you can spot it.

I'm reminded of software licence agreements and other agreements you're supposed to read before agreeing to, e.g. those sent by banks, insurance policies, etc, who provide page upon page of densely packed and mostly extraneous and boring material that would take a monumental effort to read through at the level of concentration needed to spot anything pertinent or vital. It might take hours. So that most people probably give up before even trying, which those companies are well aware of of course. I gather Feynman used to read insurance agreements (or something of that ilk) for fun.

[OwlHoot]

The article picture (NSFW) is not of his wife, unfortunately.

That's a classic, somewhat like the House of Commons clerk back in the 1840s.

Before 1865 a divorce needed an Act of Parliament, and this guy had the idea of popping into the most boring bill he could find, to be read at 2am when the handful of MPs present would be pissed as newts, a brief clause divorcing his wife. I think it worked too.

Google let me down on this occasion, but I made up a similar example using the Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845

Subject to the provisions and restrictions in this and the special Act, and any Act incorporated therewith, it shall be lawful for the company, for the purpose of constructing the railway, or the accommodation works connected therewith, herein-after mentioned, to execute any of the following works; (that is to say, They may make or construct, in, upon, across, under, or over any lands, or any . . . F1, hills, valleys, roads, railroads, or tramroads, rivers, canals, brooks, streams, or other waters, within the lands described in the said plans, or mentioned in the said books of reference or any correction thereof, such temporary or permanent inclined planes, tunnels, embankments, aqueducts, bridges, roads, ways, passages, conduits, drains, piers, arches, cuttings, and fences, as they think proper; George Sykes is hereby divorced from his wife. They may alter the course of any rivers not navigable, canals, brooks, streams, or watercourses, and of any branches of navigable rivers, such branches not being themselves navigable, within such lands, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining tunnels, bridges, passages, or other works over or under the same, and divert or alter, as well temporarily as permanently, the course of any such rivers or streams of water, [F2or roads], or raise or sink the level of any such rivers or streams, [F2or roads], in order the more conveniently to carry the same over or under or by the side of the railway, as they may think proper.

See if you can spot it.

[TimberWolf]

Never mind yer eyes, RH - it wasn't Ann who gave you all the pox!

You're right:

She has never married nor had any children. In November 2007 on BBC Radio 4 she described how a journalist once produced a profile on her with the assumption that she had had at least "one sexual relationship", to which Widdecombe replied: "Be careful, that's the way you get sued". When interviewer Jenni Murray asked if she had ever had a sexual relationship, Widdecombe laughed "it's nobody else's business".
Ann Widdecombe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Clean as a whistle.

[realityhack]

They're still bastids. Hazel Blears - if she was born before the Manhattan Project she'd be the World's first WMD.

Strangely prophetic alteration of the title though.

[cojak]

Right you bastids. I'm adding a health warning to the title so I never have to suffer this again. My poor sodding eyes.

Never mind yer eyes, RH - it wasn't Ann who gave you all the pox!

[NickFitz]

Cheeky bit of digestive there I think.

If people can please keep on quoting the post with the picture from the site that contains malware, we should be able to get all the Windows users infected before the mods can clean it up

[MaryPoppins]

Permit me to take remedial measures.

Here's Monica B;

Cheeky bit of digestive there I think.

[NickFitz]

Last edited by Mich the Tester; Today at 15:43. Reason: better pic

Not actually better...

[Zippy]

But you would, wouldnt you ?

If her husband wouldn't, I don't see why hyperD would.

[realityhack]

Permit me to take remedial measures.

Here's Monica B;

Thanks Mich.

That's starting to undo the damage caused to my retina.

[fullyautomatix]

FFS! I've just eaten!

But you would, wouldnt you ?

[TykeMerc]

Right you bastids. I'm adding a health warning to the title so I never have to suffer this again. My poor sodding eyes.

Very wise, it was in danger of inviting military retribution from NATO.

[wobbegong]

[Mich the Tester]

Thanks. This thread was utter filth.

Permit me to take remedial measures.

Here's Monica B;

MILF!

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