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ARoundForEveryone t1_j9ud3ia wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Clean off your goddamn cars!! by Nalek

Are you suggesting new laws? We very well can't have new laws without catchy and sentimental names - come on, man!

You seen the list of laws we currently have? They're numbered and lettered - and we've used up all the numbers and letters. We're currently in the "child names" section of law names, and there are only so many catchy and sentimental names so we need to be a little stingy when it comes to new laws and regulations.

We could have an emergency Senate hearing or something that would enact the little used "fuzzy animal" clause of State Statute Eleanor 43b, from 1946, that would let us name laws after fuzzy animals instead of dead children. But that's only temporary in nature and it would expire in 12 months without overriding Senate Guideline Eleanor Gertrude Humphries. Of course, that would trigger the little used William J Eastman statue (penned in honor of little "Billy East" back in '71) so a second vote would have to be taken within 12 months. This is known both in the Senate and the House as the "Irish Twins" law. It's pretty controversial and is usually seen as a last ditch effort to preserve "God's Will" (although that can't be directly stated by politicians). Usually these types of laws do more harm than good, but it's not the law's fault - it's usually just that the enforcement agencies aren't equipped to deal with changes these significant in such a rapid-fire manner.

Anyway, what was I saying? I don't know how I got on a tangent about our official legal system.

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[deleted] t1_j9uqimz wrote

Oh well. Maybe New Hampshire will bag a few people while they’re driving up there to buy their menthols and fireworks to smuggle back into MA.

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