I am home on fall break, and it is blissful and lovely. And I’m enjoying the break from flatlands heat as well. It has been misty and rainy here, and I love it, even though it makes me sleepy and lazy. I’ll post some fog photos soon. Next week will be awful, because I have a 15 page paper, an impossibly difficult sculpture, and a painting due, and I also have to register for classes and take a nasty little Spanish exam. But I’m enjoying the time I have to relax.

The Friday Fact this weeks is brought to you by the back of my bedroom door, which is completely covered in interesting newspaper clippings, comic strips, trinkets, and random, hilarious doodles. This is from something I clipped out of the N&O Mini Page way yonder back in middle school. You’ve got to wonder what prompted state legislatures to create some of these laws and how much of our tax money is devoted to the creation of said laws.

Some unbelievable, and very real, laws:

It’s against the law to mispronounce “Arkansas” when you’re in that state.

If you complain about a pothole in Baton Rouge, LA, you can be forced to fix it yourself.

It’s illegal to educate your dog in Hartford, CT.

You can be arrested for carrying bees in your hat in Lawrence, KS.

In order to legally go barefoot in Austin, TX, you need a $5 permit.

It’s illegal for goats to wear trousers in Massachusetts.

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