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#84926 11/10/02 11:13 AM
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Anyone with a television wired to a plug in their home has to have a tv license, even if it is not in use. Inspectors can levy 1000 pound fines for non compliance and repeated infractions can end you up in prison.
http://www.tv-l.co.uk/tvlic/index_frameset.html


#84927 11/10/02 01:53 PM
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Anyone with a television wired to a plug in their home has to have a tv license, even if it is not in use. Inspectors can levy 1000 pound fines for non compliance and repeated infractions can end you up in prison. ~ Dodyskin

If you are 74 or over you will be eligible for either a free Over 75 TV Licence or a Short Term Licence (or until you pass away, whichever comes first). It is important to remember that you still need a licence. Your free licence will not be issued automatically, you do have to apply for it. Of course if you are blind you merely need to fill out a series of forms and you can watch TV free forever upon approval of your submitted application.
And if you are blind and over 74, well...hey, we all should be so lucky .
~ Information URL site (slightly modified)

Now that, my distant friends, is a scary law. I'd bet the lot of your Tower Jewels that this crass affront to free information flow everywhere was enacted while your paternalistic labour boys were in power. Right?

Good Lord I hope so...


#84928 11/10/02 05:42 PM
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>'d bet the lot of your Tower Jewels that this crass affront to free information flow everywhere was enacted while your paternalistic labour boys were in power. Right?


In the catchy words of Charlie Daniels, "I'll take that bet and you're gonna regret because" the Labour Party first came to power not less than 2 years after the BBC licence fee was established.


#84929 11/10/02 06:08 PM
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So, how's milum gonna get the Tower Jewels for you?


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>So, how's milum gonna get the Tower Jewels for you?

I don't know, but if he values his personal integrity, I expect him to keep his word. I would accept the cash equivalent, though, since I'm a reasonable man.


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So, how's milum gonna get the Tower Jewels for you?

I don't know, but if he values his personal integrity,
I expect him to keep his word.



**************************************************
_________________BILL OF SALE_____________________

In consideration of the forgivement of all war debts
incured by Great Britian in the just and noble war
against the Huns
I do hereby award Milo Washington on behalf of the American people
the Crown Jewels with the understanding that
they remain in the Tower of London for safekeeping.
___________________Signed__Lord George Dinwiddle HMJP
acting on behalf of King George the Sixth and the British Empire.
___________His Seal -> >o< on this date July 4, 1946.


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________________NOTE OF TRANSFER_______________


I, Milo Washington, being of sound mind do hereby
transfer ownership of the Crown Jewels to sjm to satisfy
a stupid bet I made when I was drunk. The Crown Jewels
are priceless. The ownership taxes imposed by a socialist
society are three times priceless.
No. I will not take them back.

____________________________________November 12, 2002
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#84932 11/10/02 11:52 PM
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Thanks, Milum. I didn't want to weaken my bargaining position, but I was actually prepared to trade them for this deed to the Brooklyn Bridge I bought aeons ago.


#84933 11/11/02 07:58 PM
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Well, just so long as we aren't talking about the family jewels.



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#84934 11/11/02 08:06 PM
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Well, just so long as we aren't talking about the family jewels.

What is it with you guys!?


#84935 11/11/02 08:29 PM
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ASp....what is it with these guys? And you the very one what got 'em talkin' 'bout baroque pianists?


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