"Michael Cash" <buggeroff@fake.com> wrote in message
news:of7fvv0th3jj0upsth8evfkcf8o6vsr9t9@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 10:02:45 +1300, "Adam Whyte-Settlar"
> <grawillers@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
> inscribed:
>
> >
> >"Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
> >news:vvdmkdhhaqn053@corp.supernews.com...
> >> Envy - they still long for the days when Britain was really important
> >> and had an Empire. It aggravates them that we have the freedom,
> >> prosperity and living conditions they don't.
> >
> >I don't think there is much of a gap re 'living conditions' these days,
but
> >your much vaunted 'freedom' is largely illusary.
> >You are perfectly free to do and think exactly what your government
allows.
> >Not that the UK is all that much better but it *is* better.
> >A W-S
> >PS - did you know it is illegal for a woman in Texas to own more than
five
> >vibrators for example?
> >What's all that about?
>
> Illegal to sell them in Alabama at all.

Ah! I was meaning to ask about that - I take it that law was indeed passed
then?
I heard about it's progress a few years ago but it was being challenged by
various groups at the time.
I thought it rather ironic that the people pressing for them to be made
illegal called themselves ' The People's Council For Civil Liberties' or
something like that.
IIRC several other states were also going the same way?
A W-S