Real Law or Internet Law: mince pies, Venice, socks

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe Court of Internet Appeals is in session. Please rise, if you still have the strength.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorLaw one, from England: eating mince pies on Christmas Day is illegal.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorReal. A country that bans a pie is a country that has lost its nerve, and I've seen the pastry aisle lately.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorInternet. Christmas celebrations were banned in sixteen forty-seven under Cromwell, but the pies themselves never were.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThose laws lapsed in sixteen sixty, and the Law Commission says none of the eleven that remained concerned mince pies.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEleven laws and not one about pies. So who was guarding the pies?

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorLaw two, from Venice: day-trippers must pay an entry fee to visit the city.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorInternet. You can't charge people to look at a place. Next it's a turnstile on every door in Europe.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorReal, since the twenty-fifth of April, twenty twenty-four. Five euros on peak days for visitors who don't stay overnight.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPer Wikipedia, that is the charge. Hotel guests, residents and students are exempt.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFive euros. That's a turnstile with a price tag on it.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorExemptions, Judge. Students are exempt. Your turnstile is a narrow one.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorLaw three, from the United Kingdom: you can't stand within one hundred yards of the monarch without socks on.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorReal. Tudors regulated everything, and bare ankles at a hundred yards is how a court loses its grip.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorInternet. It appears nowhere on the statute books. Tudor monarchs did regulate clothing styles, but nothing about socks.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOne for three on the pies and socks. I take it personally.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI rule this court INTERNET. And no, nobody has checked my socks either.