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Well, it is virtually impossible to steal a handkerchief when it is in use

Boots?

Earrings?

hygenicdispenser!!!

Ladies Hatpins is the correct answer!!!

+3!!

For more points, can anyone say why????



GT

Woo!

They had pearls, diamonds etc on the end.

Quite right too . They should bring it back . Stealing hatpins is a capital crime in my book .

The blunt end, that is.

Posts 58,60, 61, 62...........All wrong, sorry!!

But any ideas why it was a capital offence????



GT

to steal the hat pins they had broken into a ladies boudoir, and that is totaly unnacepable, as it can damage a ladies reputation

Was the hatpin specifically a capital offence, whereas eg. cufflinks or bracelets might not have been?

An old law from the 11th Century, about which the Brits of this time used to make much fun. A bit like what you can find there:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article2251280.ece

hygenicdispenser....

expand on post 64 and you get the bonus points!!!



GT

lol

I have to give you a +6 for that toybox!!!


GT

They had gold sovereigns on the end?

Toybox! Wonderful

>It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.<

What are they going to do about it?

Besides what you said earlier, hd, I think you are there.....


+3

The best hatpins from that era were so elaborate and expensive to produce, that stealing them was deemed a Capital Offence.


Reference Lancashire Evining Post, 13/02/10


GT

Info and scores to follow!!

Thanx
GT

Fine the dead MP?

Must try out rule 10 sometime!!!!!



GT

Thanks GT! I'm just finishing a bottle of Marston's Old Empire, so I raise my glass to you.

Had to go back and read rule 10.

There's a bit in one of Spike Milligan's war memoirs where he recalls getting really annoyed with his fellow soldiers. They were driving through the North African desert, there was nothing for miles and miles around, and everyone insisted on peeing up the wheels of their truck.

It is forbidden to die in any British royal palace a privalage reserver for royals only. Parliament is still the palace of Westminster. Anyone who is thoughtless enough to pass on is deemed to simply be seriously ill untill thay leave the palace, whereupon they die when they enter the real world.

Therefore in theory
1. imortality (technical only) can be acheived if you stay and stay in a palace providing you dont clutter the plce up.

2. you could be liable for income tax post mortem.