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New York Legalizes Giving A Haircut On Sundays
By Ben Hooper
July 13 (UPI) -
- New York
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation Tuesday to get rid of an "archaic" law that banned barbers from working on Sundays.
Cuomo announced Tuesday that the new law,
which takes effect immediate- ly, does away with a state law that made it a misdemeanor for a barber to cut hair or provide a shave to a cus- tomer on a Sunday.
"An archaic law that made it a misdemeanor to cut hair on Sundays has been shaved from the books," Cuomo tweeted. "Though rarely enforced, the law was shear mad- ness -- and we're not feeling blue to see it go. It's not splitting hairs to say that bar-
bers should be able to work any day they want."
Multiple barbers working in the state said they had no idea that such a law ever was on the books.
"Yeah, I am sur- prised. We've never been open on Sunday, but several people are. I had no idea it was ever a law, but I'm glad we never broke it," Connie Johnston, owner of The Sportsman's Barber Shop in Watertown, told WWNY-TV.
The bill to repeal
the law was intro- duced by Republican state Sen. Joe Griffo.
"Barbershops and salons, like all small busi- nesses, have faced significant, unprecedented and strenuous challenges during the coronavirus pandemic," Griffo said.
"By removing outdated and unnecessary laws such as this, these busi- nesses will be provided with an additional oppor- tunity to recover financially as we work to rebuild our local and state economies.
As a woman passed her daughter's closed bedroom door, she heard a strange buzzing noise coming from within. Opening the door, she observed her daughter with a "toy".
Shocked, she asked: 'what in the world are you doing?'
The daughter replied: 'mom, I'm thirty-five years old, unmarried, and this thing is about as close as I'll ever get to a husband. Please, go away and leave me alone.'
The next day, the girl's father heard the same buzz coming from the other side of the closed bedroom door. Upon enter- ing the room, he observed his daughter with her "toy".
To his query as to what she was doing, the daugh- ter said: 'dad I'm thirty-five, unmar- ried, and this thing is about as close as I'll ever get to a husband. Please, go away and leave me alone.'
A couple days later, the wife came home from a shopping trip, placed the gro- ceries on the kitchen counter, and heard that buzzing noise coming from, of all places, the liv- ing room. She entered that area and observed her husband sitting on the couch, downing a cold beer, and staring at the TV.
The "toy" was next to him on the couch, buzzing like crazy.
The wife asked: 'What the hell are you doing?'
The husband replied: 'I'm watching football with my son-in- law.'
A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband walking around with a fly swatter.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Hunting flies," he responed.
"Oh! kill any?" she asked.
"Yep! 3 males and 2 females," he replied.
Intrigued, she asked him, "How can you tell them apart?"
He responded, "3 were on a beer can and 2 were on the phone."
A man has to leave the country on business and he entrusts with his best friend the job of keeping an eye on his wife. If anything out of the ordinary should occur, he was to be notified immediately.
After about a week of no news the business man received a telegram: "The man who comes to visit your wife every night didn't show up yester- day..."
Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the wait- ress, "I'd like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream."
The waitress replies, "I'm sorry, Monsieur, but we're out of cream. How about with no milk?"
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