Blackjack Missouri!
Apr 26th 2006, 3:48 pm
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Blackjack Missouri!
Could someone please explain what the heck is going in this city. The city has a n ordinance that unless people are married they cant own a home and therefore are being asked to move somewhere else?
Apr 26th 2006, 4:06 pm
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Re: Blackjack Missouri!
Originally Posted by willmore
Could someone please explain what the heck is going in this city. The city has a n ordinance that unless people are married they cant own a home and therefore are being asked to move somewhere else?
is slowly turning into a theocracy. In Kuwait and Saudi Arabia the police carry out random traffic stops. If a man and women are in the car together, and they are not husband & wife or brother & sister, then they are fined or imprisoned.
Wait for it to happen here
Apr 26th 2006, 4:16 pm
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Re: Blackjack Missouri!
That's not 100% accurate but it looks like that is the idea. You can live there if you are a single individual, 2 or more people related by blood, marriage or adoption or a group of 3 or less not related in any way. Seems like a shite policy to me with some workarounds but why would you want to live in a place like that in the first place?
Apr 26th 2006, 4:19 pm
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Re: Blackjack Missouri!
Originally Posted by Duncan Roberts
That's not 100% accurate but it looks like that is the idea. You can live there if you are a single individual, 2 or more people related by blood, marriage or adoption or a group of 3 or less not related in any way. Seems like a shite policy to me with some workarounds but why would you want to live in a place like that in the first place?
from a city named after a gambling casino game.
Apr 26th 2006, 4:23 pm
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Re: Blackjack Missouri!
Originally Posted by Manc
all good moral fun.
from a city named after a gambling casino game.
from a city named after a gambling casino game.
Apr 26th 2006, 4:30 pm
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Re: Blackjack Missouri!
Originally Posted by Rompers
Either that or it was a city lost in a gambling casino game
Apr 26th 2006, 4:38 pm
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I think I read that it had been around for 20 odd years but it is the latest revision that is causing the problems.
Apr 26th 2006, 4:42 pm
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Re: Blackjack Missouri!
Originally Posted by Duncan Roberts
I think I read that it had been around for 20 odd years but it is the latest revision that is causing the problems.
My first reaction listening to it on CNN - are we talking about the States here?
Apr 26th 2006, 4:43 pm
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Re: Blackjack Missouri!
Originally Posted by Duncan Roberts
I think I read that it had been around for 20 odd years but it is the latest revision that is causing the problems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Jack,_Missouri
But the link isn't valid.
Apr 26th 2006, 4:45 pm
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Re: Blackjack Missouri!
Stoopid idiotic crap laws.
Its not that long ago that women weren't allowed to live together in Sorority houses because more than 4 women co-habiting constituted a brothel
Its not that long ago that women weren't allowed to live together in Sorority houses because more than 4 women co-habiting constituted a brothel
