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Safety razors have been around for a long, long time. Disposable blades came later, though.
This is because of a story I am reading. In the story a minor boy shot and killed a man who was threatening another minor boy. They are cousins, and they live together: the first boy's parents are the guardians of the second boy. The lawyer for the boy who did the shooting tells him that since his cousin is a witness to the event they will be kept separate and incommunicado until the trial is over in about six months.
I don't believe this for a moment. It has, in fact, ruined the story for me.
Does Canada in fact have such a law that the witness for the defense is to be removed from all contact with the accused until; the trial is over?
I would have thought that they would keep them from talking to each other until they'd made their first statements, at the most.
I don't believe this for a moment. It has, in fact, ruined the story for me.
Does Canada in fact have such a law that the witness for the defense is to be removed from all contact with the accused until; the trial is over?
I would have thought that they would keep them from talking to each other until they'd made their first statements, at the most.
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I wish I understood the Wikipedia talk pages better. I wanted to put on the discussion page a plea to clean up the article about Szlachta (Polish nobility and for some reason notes about other regional nobilities that don't have that name and whose historical relationship is not clarified by the article). It hops around in chronology and whole sections of it talk about historical progression but do not have any dates or understandable references to events in other paragraphs so they can be easily put into the same timeline. I'll have to re-read it several times I think to have gotten anything from it.
The part where it talks about the russification of Lithuania, for example, can only be dated by following links to entirely other articles. How hard would it be to throw a date in there?
Meanwhile, the epithets given to kings never ceases to amuse me. You know how humorous writers tend to give kings unflattering epithets? That's because real kings tend to have unflattering epithets. There's a Mieszko Tanglefoot and a Władisłav Elbow-high. And apparently "ell" comes from "elbow," but the French ell is 137 centimeters long and the Danish one is only 64 centimeters long. And an ell-wand is a standardized stick for measuring an ell, and what does that say about Elrond? Doesn't this mean we've been portraying him all wrong?
Anyway, through waxing all those cats I think I've figured out where to begin. Yanek is twenty, Sascha is sixteen, and the bad stuff is going to happen in a few months.
The part where it talks about the russification of Lithuania, for example, can only be dated by following links to entirely other articles. How hard would it be to throw a date in there?
Meanwhile, the epithets given to kings never ceases to amuse me. You know how humorous writers tend to give kings unflattering epithets? That's because real kings tend to have unflattering epithets. There's a Mieszko Tanglefoot and a Władisłav Elbow-high. And apparently "ell" comes from "elbow," but the French ell is 137 centimeters long and the Danish one is only 64 centimeters long. And an ell-wand is a standardized stick for measuring an ell, and what does that say about Elrond? Doesn't this mean we've been portraying him all wrong?
Anyway, through waxing all those cats I think I've figured out where to begin. Yanek is twenty, Sascha is sixteen, and the bad stuff is going to happen in a few months.
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