By adamg on Fri., 2/19/2016 - 10:09 pm
J.L. Bell reports Boston town leaders felt compelled in 1702 to pass an ordinance limiting the speed of horses within the town limits - the first legal speed limits in British North America.
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Well that's easy!
By anon
Fri, 02/19/2016 - 10:26pm
1702, Final Answer!
was it illegal to get wasted
By Scumquistador
Fri, 02/19/2016 - 10:44pm
was it illegal to get wasted and romp around on your horse
Horses were the first self
By anon
Fri, 02/19/2016 - 10:48pm
Horses were the first self driving vehicles!
The horses that pulled milk
By anon
Sat, 02/20/2016 - 1:10pm
The horses that pulled milk wagons learned their routes, and would stop at each house without direction from the driver.
Evidently not
By bohemka
Fri, 02/19/2016 - 11:55pm
Look at the trails we ended up paving.
[cows, cows, yeah, yeah]
Interestingly
By Michael
Fri, 02/19/2016 - 10:47pm
A series of pamphlets distributed under the name "Adam's Talke of ye Hubbe and its Univerƒalle Items of Note" was discovered in an old shoebox.
One of the pamphlets concerned "a Tragick Encounter between an out-of-control Carriage and a now-mangled Unfortunate". The pamphlets in reply mostly castigated the carriage driver; one in particular cited "Ruffians and Vagabonds who pay no Attention to their Surroundings and careen through Alleys Wickedde fast", although one correspondent noted the victim's "darke Clothing and lacke of Respect paid to lanes designated for Travel". Many other writers argued whether the incident occurred on Ezekiel Coppersmith's land or that of Goodwife Hanthorpe, leading to a 63-pamphlet exchange on where exactly that boundary lay.
The final pamphlet included the bundle was a plea that "our Colonial overƒeers shall record the Minutes of their Several Meetings and make them available in steno form to the Populace".
does the pamphlet
By Scumquistador
Fri, 02/19/2016 - 10:49pm
have a constantly irate and irritating contributor from menotomy?
In the Stocks
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 02/19/2016 - 10:53pm
He was in the stocks at the time of printing. Or banished from the colony.
(Let it be known that Michael has Won the UHub for 2/19/2016)
did that
By Scumquistador
Fri, 02/19/2016 - 11:00pm
actually happen? i haven't seen him around in awhile
The calumnies surpassed understanding
By adamg
Sat, 02/20/2016 - 9:17am
I came to the conclusion a few weeks ago that UHub and he needed a break from each other, so, yes, I suspended his account.
They do!
By anon
Sat, 02/20/2016 - 8:42am
See above commenter.
No, but
By anon
Sat, 02/20/2016 - 7:33am
there was that one guy always talking about the proper methode of producing the finest vellum and how that should be used for colonial archives...
ok
By Scumquistador
Sat, 02/20/2016 - 9:14am
that slayed me
Right back then, still right now!
By Jeff F
Sat, 02/20/2016 - 11:37am
How we record and archive information is incredibly important. Vellum still beats just about every other media - analog or digital - for its combination of cost, longevity, sustainability, and retrievability. The Magna Carta was drafted over 800 years old, and original vellum copies still exist.
Oh yeah?
By anon
Sat, 02/20/2016 - 7:28pm
Well did they put vellum on the Voyager space craft (current location: outside our solar system)? No, they didn't. They used a golden record, so clearly, that's better.
Nay but it did include
By anon
Sat, 02/20/2016 - 8:50am
Nay but it did include pensive missives castigating the indigenous fowl for disagreeably making quarrel with the constabulary.
I wish I could like this five
By JennieD
Sat, 02/20/2016 - 9:23am
I wish I could like this five thousand times. Thank you for making my morning gigglier.
this was nice
By anon
Sat, 02/20/2016 - 11:23am
very satisfying, as reply pamphlets go.
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