Wisconsin: Lutefisk is officially not a 'toxic substance'.

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorExhibit one, from Wisconsin: lutefisk is officially not a toxic substance.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorReal.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNobody writes an exemption for a fish unless the fish has already done something terrible, and I think we all remember what happened in two thousand nine.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorReal. Wisconsin's employee right-to-know law exempts lutefisk, the lye-soaked fish dish, from its definition of a toxic substance, according to Wikipedia.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLye-soaked. And the law is the part that reassures them.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorExhibit two, from Scotland: if a stranger knocks and needs the toilet, you must let them in.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorReal. First they take your fish, then your bathroom. This is how a civilisation ends, one polite knock at a time.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorInternet.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe Law Commission told the BBC it cannot find evidence it was ever on the statute book, and a Scottish justice department spokesman called it an urban myth.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWrong.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt likely grew out of Scottish hospitality. You have been wrong before, Dale, and you have never once been serious.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHospitality. That's how it starts.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorExhibit three, from Hawaii: billboards are banned.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorInternet. Paradise with no advertising? Something is up there that they don't want us to see, and it isn't a burger.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorReal, and since nineteen twenty-seven. Per Wikipedia, Vermont, Alaska and Maine have banned billboards as well.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFour states. Nineteen twenty-seven. They've been looking at the sky for ages.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe court has heard three laws. Two were real, one was a myth, and the judge is rattled.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI rule this entire court an internet myth. The wig is real, though. I checked.