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Thread #122690   Message #2695008
Posted By: akenaton
06-Aug-09 - 05:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hate laws
Subject: RE: BS: Hate laws
I don't know if it had been repealed but it used to be treason under the Treason Act to "compass the ravishment of the sovereign's daughter" so that saying "Cor I fancy that Princess Anne" would have been a bit risky!

Certainly would Richard, unless you fancied a riding crop up your rectum!