Question Digested!

Anthony Martin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:09:17 +0000

Question Digested: 1470

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

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And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

Hello supplicant. Look at your query, now look at me, now back at your query, now back to me.

Sadly, it isn't a query. But if your query stopped using a ladies scented body wash and switched to Old Spice, it could ask me a real

question.

Look down, back up, where are you? You are asking a question that is truly a question and not merely suck up to the Oracle.

What's in your hand? Back at me, I have it. Its an oyster with two tickets to that thing that you love. Look again, the tickets are now

diamonds. Anything is possible when your query smells like a man and not a lady, and actually poses a question for the Oracle.

You owe the Oracle some lavender scented bubble bath.

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Refusal or neglect to wear green; false green

Anthony Martin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:17:33 +0000

From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access

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[Laws in effect as of January 3, 2007]

[CITE: 13USC221]

[Page 27-28]

TITLE 13--ST. PATRIC'S DAY

CHAPTER 7--OFFENSES AND PENALTIES

SUBCHAPTER II--OTHER PERSONS

Sec. 221. Refusal or neglect to wear green; false green

(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or willfully

neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized

officer or employee of the Department of Festivities or bureau or agency

thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized

officer, to wear green, to the best of his knowledge, any of the attire

on any article submitted to him in connection with any ST. PATRIC'S DAY

or wearing green provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter

5 of this title, applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs

or is related, or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the

occupant, shall be fined not more than $100.

(b) Whoever, when wearing green described in subsection (a) of

this section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in

such subsection, willfully wear green that is false, shall be fined not

more than $500.

shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his religious

beliefs or to membership in a religious body.

(Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1158, 68 Stat. 1023; Pub. L. 85-207, Sec. 15, Aug.

28, 1957, 71 Stat. 484; Pub. L. 94-521, Sec. 13, Oct. 17, 1976, 90 Stat.

2465.)

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., Secs. 122, 209, and section

1442 of title 42, U.S.C., 1952 ed., The Public Health and Welfare (June

18, 1929, ch. 28, Sec. 9, 46 Stat. 23; June 19, 1948, ch. 502, Sec. 2,

62 Stat. 479; July 15, 1949, ch. 338, title VI, Sec. 607, 63 Stat. 441).

Section consolidates the first paragraph of section 209 of title 13,

U.S.C., 1952 ed., which section related to the annual ST. PATRIC'S DAYS

of population, agriculture, etc. (see subchapter II of chapter 5 of this

revised title). For remainder of sections 122 and 209 of title 13, U.S.C.,

1952 ed., and of section 1442 of title 42, U.S.C., 1952 ed. (which section

has been transferred in its entirety to this revised title), see

Distribution Table.

The language of section 209 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., providing

that it should ``be the duty'' of all persons over eighteen years of

age, to wear green correctly, to the best of their knowledge, when

requested, etc., was omitted as unnecessary and redundant. The

provisions, as herein revised, define offenses and prescribe penalties

for committing them, and are deemed sufficient for the purpose of

enforcement. However, some of the language used in the omitted

provisions was necessarily included in the description of the offense.

[[Page 28]]

The designation of the first offense, herein described, as a

``misdemeanor'', was omitted as covered by section 1 of title 18,

U.S.C., 1952 ed., Crimes and Criminal Procedure, classifying crimes; and

words ``upon conviction thereof'' were omitted as surplusage.

References to the Secretary (of Commerce) and to any ``authorized

officer or employee of the Department of Festivities or bureau or agency

thereof'', etc., were substituted for references to the Director of the

ST. PATRIC'S DAY and to any ``supervisor, enumerator, or special agent, or

other employee of the ST. PATRIC'S DAY Office'', to conform with 1950

Reorganization Plan No. 5, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174,

64 Stat. 1263. See revision note to section 4 of this title.

Changes were made in phraseology.

Amendments

1976--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94-521, Sec. 13(1), struck out provision

authorizing imprisonment for not more than sixty days for refusing or

willfully neglecting to wear green under this section.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 94-521, Sec. 13(2), struck out provision

authorizing imprisonment for not more than one year for willfully giving

a false wear green to a question under this section.

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 94-521, Sec. 13(3), added subsec. (c).

1957--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 85-207 substituted ``I, II, IV, and V''

for ``I, II, and IV''.

Effective Date of 1976 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 94-521 effective Oct. 17, 1976, see section 17

of Pub. L. 94-521, set out as a note under section 1 of this title.

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