Oklahoma Laws

In Oklahoma it is still illegal for a man to say "4 letter words" infront of women and children.

It is also illegal for a woman to sit on a man's lap if they aren't married unless they have a pillow between them.

I'm sure I can find more

--Rae

[paulgro]

Welcome to the board! Don't go sitting on anybodies lap without a pillow!! http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/wink.gif

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[~wildangel~]

I'm all for the 4 letter word law in front of kids and woman!(I guess cause my hubby cusses all the time!)I wish he wasnt allowed to sometimes!
The pillow one...I do not understand! Maybe it's to absorb a fart if she so needs to let one rip http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/wink.gif

[This message has been edited by ~wildangel~ (edited January 29, 2001).]

[Serendipity]

All of which begs the questions: Can a woman or a child swear in front of men, or in any company at all, and can men sit on women's laps uncushioned?

I can just picture an unmarried family having a picnic in a park, foulmouthed kids running around and the old man sitting on his girlfriend's lap, and the frustrated police looking on powerless! http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[LawEn4cer]

Originally posted by Serendipity:
I can just picture an unmarried family having a picnic in a park, foulmouthed kids running around and the old man sitting on his girlfriend's lap, and the frustrated police looking on powerless! http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

LOL http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/biggrin.gif I don't think adults should cuss in front of children (I rarely do myself)...but to have a law about cussing?!?!? Blah! http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/tongue.gif


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[paulgro]

Let's not forget the expression "talks like a truck driver" some women have dirtier mouths then men. Kids will learn how to curse on their own, no need to teach them.

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[Serendipity]

Yep. I learned all the bad words by the time I was 6 or so, and my family never swear. I do, but never out of place.

[~wildangel~]

I had so many older male cousins that used to cuss all the time, bring home porno's, everything when I was little, so I started cussing when I was young!Although my parents never allowed cussing in the home, one time I sayed the F word when I was about 6 and my mom slapped me and I never sayed that word Infront of her again!I still dont! http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/wink.gif

Oklahoma as a state is a curiosity. In my opinion its one of the most rightwing, religious and prudish states yet it has epidemic levels of teen pregnancy, the 8th highest syphilis rate in the nation and is in the bottom 15% in school achievement tests.
I think the government should quit making statistics on oklahoma and just do a yearly mullet count. Thats the best indicator of the intellectual progress of a state. On that I'm sure we would be #1 in total mullets.

[Ada_Doom]

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[~wildangel~]

I'm just replying to the main post and I would like to say that cussing is nothing.
If we the world is going to worry about everything we come across we may as well all go to prison because we have all done wrong if cussing is wrong. not saying we should cuss, but if theres a law against cussing infront of a wife or a child that is the stupidist thing I ever heard of! Then I guess my hardworking hubby is going to jail! lol
What a waste of a good man! All people that get fed up cuss, especially hard wokers and extremely stressed out from jobs ppl.
Maybe if my hubby were sitting on his ass collecting welfare and not having to work his arse off he wouldnt cuss!
That will be the day...when pig's learn to fly http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[Neppy]

Savagesteve's correct. We have too many limits on things that don't matter and not enough education on things like teen pregnancy. I remember seeing no less than three girls in high school with "the bulge". And I live in a small town.
At one point Cherokee County had the highest rate of unwed teen mothers in the nation or, at least, one of the highest. Sickening. Just sickening.
I had the worst Sex Ed. teacher in history, actually told a girl she could get pregnant in a hot tub if she were in the tub when the man ejaculates. http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/eek.gif I don't think the woman "teaching" us had any real training.

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[paulgro]

I don't think she had any sense!!

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[Idnew]

Me neither

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[RayH]

Personally, I think they should cut the tongue out of the foul mouths! It seems everyone has a very limited vocabulary these days! I never used that sort of language in front of my kids and threw anyone out of my house that did!

[paulgro]

Welcome to dumb laws......

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[~wildangel~]

You must not have cable then Ray???


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[BeetleJuice]

Ray must not have TV period. http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/smile.gif
a few questions for some of the wiser and thoughtful people here...

when does it ever make sense to legislate morality? who is the judge of what is and isn't moral? what makes their standards correct and some one elses wrong? what gives them the right to dictate what is moral for me?

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[paulgro]

I feel what you do in your home is your business, but what you do in my home becomes my business...

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Didn't some chick in Michigan actually have a guy arrested based on a similar law?

This guy was out fishing in a boat & didn't know the woman was on the bank with her kids or something like that.

[Idnew]

That interesting lack. I'm like Paul what you do in your house is your business but what you do in mine is my business. A woman I know uses MF about every other word and I hate it, but I've about got her broke from using it around me. That and God dam* I hate hearing people say.

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[Ada_Doom]

Vaguely off topic, but settle a debate between me and my mate (because we are this dull!). Is fart a really bad word on a level with the other f-word, or just a colloquialism that you maybe shouldn't use in front of your maiden Aunty, but apart from that....

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[paulgro]

It's a crude word, but not a curse word...

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[Ada_Doom]

The Paul has spoken! Cheers pal! http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/wink.gif

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[Idnew]

Well what else would you say anyway? Stop gassing. I'm going to gas. Your gas really is smelling up the place. Guess you could say that instead of fart. http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/smile.gif

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[paulgro]

Any time Ms Doom, now what did I win!!! http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/wink.gif

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[Ada_Doom]

3 million DM, payable after the end of March 2002.

Nice theory Id. Unfortunately, gassing is talking where I come from. "Is your mother gassing with the neighbours again?" will never again be seen in the same light....

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[~wildangel~]

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[~wildangel~]

Ok Im back, since nobody wanted to reply to my smilie face! hehe http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/wink.gif

OK, I feel as though I didnt explain my last post thorough enough (no not the smilie face one but the one before it).

Theres different types of cussing, I should explain tht when we curse in my household or wherever, we try not to, it is always said out of complete and utter frustration.

I cant STAND people that cuss all the time, the F word in every other sentance, it really makes me mad infront of my children.
I just wanted to explain myself in the right way...dont want anyone thinking were foul mouthed pigs or anything, were not! http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/wink.gif

I also agree with what Beetle sayed.

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[Ada_Doom]

That's right Wild. There's a time and a place for swearing. It always really gets to me when I hear some mother turning on her small child and yelling something like "geddover ere now you bloody little ****". Charming. How is that child going to learn that there are some words you don't use in front of certain people, and, how will he ever feel the true satisfaction of cursing when he's a reason to?

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Just a thought....Have you ever noticed all a swear word is composed of is a couple of vowel and consanant sounds? And the only real curse word is Dam* because when you say it you are cursing the object to Hell? Just kind of makes you wonder we put so much faith in words and not the action behind them. Kind makes that whole think before you speak and look before you leap seem like it makes sense, Don't it??

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[Ada_Doom]

Welcome QT. It's a bit early in the morning for that much philosphy http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/smile.gif, but I see what you're saying, and you have a point. They are after all, just words.

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[RayH]

I watch very little TV. My kids, through elementary school, were limited in their television. They were allowed only to watch PBS during the week and only one hour of commercial televison on the weekend.

Even as adults, they don't use foul language...at least not around me! I'm big enough to still be able to floor them! http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/smile.gif

Do you think they don't swear at all even when your not around?? I'm 17, I don't consider myself a foul mouthed person. but I still swear when I get really upset. (Which for me is about every 20s, Hold on....mood swing...arrrhhhhhh) J/K

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[paulgro]

Welcome to dumb laws, qtlioness
Everbody swears one time or another. It's where you do it that matters....

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