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Society, economy and law

Eating chocolate cake in a bag.

Comrade! Your hair is not trimmed in accordance with the socialist lifestyle!

At the heart of an international incident.

Bagism	A social ideology created by the Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono which involves wearing a bag over one's entire body to promote peace and equality.
Banned in Boston	Boston now has a reputation as a liberal city, but it wasn't always so ...
Beard Liberation Front	A British interest group which campaigns in support of beards and opposes discrimination against those who wear them.
Biotic Baking Brigade	Pie-throwing anarchists.
Birth tourism	Going on vacation to get a different citizenship for the child.
Frank Chu	All he wants is royalties for being featured in a real life soap opera broadcast in 12 galaxies – or was it 785,249,000,000,000?
Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner	A controversial performance, directed, amongst others, toward an uncomfortable President nearby.
Crypt of Civilization	A time capsule not to be opened before 8113 A.D.
Fat men's club	Social clubs for the weightiest members of society.
Fedspeak	A deliberately confusing, carefully rehearsed cryptic language, whose delphic dialect is used to effectively prevent the understanding of Fed policy.
Fourth International Posadist	Trotskyism and UFOs. Yes, really.
Guerrilla gardening	"Quick... torch on... plant those carrots!"
Go Topless Day	A day to advocate topfreedom for women
He never married	A euphemism often used in mid-20th century obituaries in United Kingdom for LGBT men.
Japanese adult adoption	The vast majority of adoptees in Japan are childless adult males, adopted by families needing a strong heir or a male successor for their businesses.
Karen (slang)	I dislike this article. Can I speak to your manager?
Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle	A television show produced by the communist government of North Korea intended to educate the public on good and bad hairstyles.
Long-time nuclear waste warning messages	How do you warn people to stay away from nuclear waste repositories, in a way that will be understandable 10,000 years from now?
Man of the Hole	The last survivor of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil, and arguably the world's loneliest person.
Money burning	Which can provide for behaviour modification, political notoriety and a warm fireplace. (See also K Foundation Burn a Million Quid in the "Television and film" section above.)
Đorđe Martinović incident	How the insertion of a beer bottle into the rectum of a Serbian farmer caused a major ethnic and political controversy in Serbia in 1985 and contributed to the collapse of Yugoslavia.
Montreal–Philippines cutlery controversy	A 7-year-old boy's eating habits became an international incident.
Olim L'Berlin	A Facebook page that urged Israelis to move to Germany by comparing prices of a popular Milky pudding.
Emperor Norton	Emperor Norton I, the man who claimed to be "Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico" in 1859.
Panty tree	Trees covered in various articles of clothing cast off by ski lift passengers.
Pink Pistols	They're here, they're queer – and they're armed to the teeth.
Pole and Hungarian brothers be	A two-nation proverb often cited, usually while drinking, in both Poland and Hungary.
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks	Amongst other insults and profanity, it supposedly told Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire to fuck his mother.
Sentinelese	An autonomous stone-age human tribe which completely avoids contact with the outside world.
Socialist Patients' Collective	An organization that charged that diseases were caused by capitalism.

Politics and government

The confusingly hirsute Charles the Bald.

All hail the Conch Republic !

I am a jelly donut?

Who knew legislation could be so sweet?

Not a killer rabbit after all.

A senator uses an old debating trick.

A work by the "Kowloon emperor".

1803 Gatton by-election	Two candidates, only one ballot cast, in this by-election in one of the UK's most notorious rotten boroughs of the early 19th century.
1927 Liberian general election	The most fraudulent election in recorded history, with a turnout of 1,680%.
Munafri Arifuddin	Ran unopposed for mayor of Makassar, Indonesia, won more than 250,000 votes, and lost.
David Rice Atchison	Accidentally President for a day, and only found out after his "term" had ended.
Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act	An apparently innocuous piece of congressional legislation that became the subject of outrageous but widely believed conspiracy theories in 1956.
Animals as electoral candidates	Why be ruled by some monkey when you can get a real chimp, rhino or pig into office?
Anti-PowerPoint Party	Fighting the overuse of Microsoft Powerpoint in offices since 2011.
Anton Bakov	A man currently trying to recreate the Russian Empire off the coast of the Gambia.
Bald–hairy	Russian leadership has alternated between bald and hairy leaders since 1825.
Boris Skossyreff	Russian adventurer, who tried to seize the monarchy of Andorra and called himself Boris I of Andorra.
Catmando	A cat who was the head of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.
Charles the Bald	A 9th century emperor of the Carolingian Empire who is depicted in artwork as having a full head of hair.
Chicken tax	A U.S. tariff on trucks, which resulted in a period of chicken trade related tension known as the Chicken War.
Count Binface	An intergalatic warlord and British political candidate (formerly Lord Buckethead).
Division of Batman	A former electoral district in Melbourne, Australia. And no, it wasn't named after the superhero.
Ruth Ellen Brosseau	An assistant bar manager who was elected to Canada's parliament from Quebec despite having never visited the district, barely speaking the language and spending part of the election campaign in Las Vegas. She proved to be a competent politician and was re-elected in 2015.
Brown Dog affair	Political scandal that resulted in police protection for the statue of a dog.
Bushism	Any of a number of peculiar words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, semantic or linguistic errors that have occurred in the public speaking of former United States President George W. Bush.
Bush shoeing incident	An incident where Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw a pair of shoes at George W. Bush on December 14th, 2008 during a press conference.
Candy Desk	A desk on the floor of the U.S. Senate has been filled with candy since 1968.
Mel Carnahan	In 2000, he was elected to the United States Senate, despite dying in a plane crash 3 weeks before election day.
Jimmy Carter Peanut Statue	A statue of a grinning peanut in honor of Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter rabbit incident	Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's scrape with a "killer" rabbit.
Jimmy Carter UFO incident	Jimmy Carter's encounter with a UFO. The truth really is out there.
Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office	An official government position in the United Kingdom.
Conch Republic	As a protest against the actions by the United States federal government, Key West in Florida seceded from and then declared war on the United States, surrendered one minute later and then applied for $1 billion in foreign aid.
Deez Nuts	A satirical candidate who ran for president during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and polled 10% at his best. In the polls, he had defeated other notable candidates such as Harambe, Beast Mode, Darrell Castle (this one is real), and nearly Jill Stein.
Democracy sausage	Part of Australia's tradition of holding a fundraising sausage sizzle at polling places on election day. Not connected to the observation about similarities between how laws and sausages are made.
Dewey Defeats Truman	When Thomas E. Dewey was falsely thought to have defeated Harry S. Truman in the 1948 election.
Donald Duck Party	A non-existent political party, at occasions among the top ten parties in Swedish parliamentary elections.
Eddie Eagle	The National Rifle Association's controversial mascot who is supposed to teach kids gun safety. What, you didn't know the NRA had a mascot?
Euromyth	Paranoid and imaginative speculations about the bureaucratic excesses of the European Union.
Flatulence tax	When you keep a lot of cattle, you're contributing significantly to the greenhouse effect ... aren't you?
Rob Ford	Former Mayor of Toronto, who became embroiled in a scandal for being recorded smoking crack cocaine. His brother, Doug, later became the Premier of Ontario.
Jennifer Gale	A woman who gained some measure of fame for repeatedly running for public office in Austin, Texas and for singing during city council meetings.
Jón Gnarr	An Icelandic comedian who started the satirical Best Party, and became the mayor of Reykjavik.
George H. W. Bush broccoli comments	The president’s strategy for winning the baby vote.
Greek Ecologists	A Green party which uses nudity in its political campaigns.
H'Angus	A monkey football mascot who was elected mayor of Hartlepool, England, with a platform of "free bananas for all schoolchildren".
Ich bin ein Berliner	President Kennedy did not call himself a jelly donut in front of a German audience.
Harold Holt	He goes swimming, and then missing.
Incidents of objects being thrown at politicians	In various countries, objects have been thrown at politicians for reasons varying from comedic to harmful with objects from pies to grenades.
Kasongo Ilunga	A man who spent several months of 2007 as the Minister for Foreign Trade of the Democratic Republic of the Congo – even though he wasn't a real person.
Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary	If you ever find yourself an alien in the Klavern and someone asks "AYAK?" remember to answer "AKIA". Its all "CABARK".
Pedro Lascuráin	President of Mexico for 45 minutes.
Legislative violence	Where politicians actively fight for what they believe in.
List of Kim Jong-il's titles	Because just being the "Great Leader" wasn't enough.
Lord Bloody Wog Rolo	Australian political personality and founder of the British Ultra Loyalist League Serving Historical Interests Today.
Luke Lea	Former American Senator who tried to kidnap the exiled former Kaiser of Germany in 1919. The plan failed when the Kaiser refused to allow him to visit. He ended up stealing a bronze ashtray instead.
Marxist-Leninist Party of the Netherlands	A fake Maoist political party set up by the BVD in order to spy on the Chinese government. Fooled Zhou Enlai, and may have helped facilitate Richard Nixon's tour of China.
Maryland's 3rd congressional district	When gerrymandering is taken too far.
McGillicuddy Serious Party	A satirical political party in New Zealand.
Merkel-Raute	More than one German leader has been known for a distinctive hand gesture.
Mitt Romney dog incident	American former Presidential candidate carries his dog on top of his car, and it gets diarrhea.
Ninja–Russia relations	"Anti-Soviet activity by Ninjutsu Practitioners" would be quite the Jeopardy! category.
Jakob Maria Mierscheid	A fictitious politician in the German Bundestag since 1979, originally introduced in the 1920s by Weimar Social Democrats to avoid paying restaurant bills. Discovered the Mierscheid Law.
Antanas Mockus	The surprisingly effective mayor of Bogotá, Colombia known for civically-targeted publicity pranks.
Niuas Nobles' constituency	An electoral constituency consisting of just three voters, who elect one of their number to one of the twenty-six seats in the Legislative Assembly of Tonga.
New shoes on budget day	One of Canada's less grand political traditions.
Nobody for President	Vote for Nobody! Nobody will listen to their campaign promises!
Pascual Racuyal	A Filipino presidential aspirant who promised to build plastic roads and govern the Philippines "via satellite".
Phoenix Foundation	A libertarian group that attempted to create their own country 3 times. All of them failed.
Richard Nixon mask	One of the United States' most popular masks.
Nuisance candidate	In the Philippines political candidates can be disqualified for bringing the election into disrepute or mockery, having a name which confuses voters or not actually intending to run for office.
Official Monster Raving Loony Party	Among other policies, this British political party advocates the banning of semicolons as "no-one knows how to use them".
Old Sarum	A notorious rotten borough in Great Britain which, before 1832, was entitled to elect two members of Parliament even though it had only eleven voters and no residents.
Dunwich	Another rotten borough which had almost entirely fallen into the sea over two centuries before it was abolished.
Patrol 36	The most famous group of Neo-Nazi Israelis.
List of people who have lived at airports	Wish you were here?
Polish Beer-Lovers' Party	One of the major political powers in Poland in the early 1990s.
Redskins Rule	When the Redskins won, the party of the current president retained the presidency; when the Redskins lost, the opposition party won.
Resignation from the British House of Commons	Illegal since 1624.
Rhinoceros Party	A former political party in Canada, which often promised outlandishly impossible schemes designed to amuse and entertain the voting public.
Russian political jokes	In Soviet Russia, the article reads you.
Günter Schabowski	A Freudian slip of this East German official started the demolition of the Berlin Wall.
Screaming Lord Sutch	British musician, founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. Holds the record for losing all 40 elections in which he stood.
Shanghai Fugu Agreement	A completely fictitious international treaty accepted by the German state of Hesse in 1985.
Sister Boom Boom	A drag queen who dressed as a nun and ran for the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco.
Statue of Lenin (Seattle)	How a statue of Lenin made its way from Czechoslovakia to Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood.
Socialist fraternal kiss	When two socialist leaders are very close...
Smash sparrows campaign	Mao Zedong's campaign to eliminate all sparrows in China.
Ilona Staller	A Hungarian porn star elected to the Italian Parliament.
Strange laws	Laws that are strange.
Texas Legation	Don't worry, you're not the only one that doesn't pay their rent!
Tsang Tsou Choi	From the 1970s to his death, he claimed to be the "Kowloon emperor".
Threatening the president of the United States	Illegal words?
Wilson Tucker (politician)	A resident of Seattle who was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council in 2021 despite receiving 98 votes (0.17% of the regional total), courtesy of group voting tickets.
John C. Turmel	With a record of no wins and 100 losses in campaigns since 1979, he's probably the world's least-successful would-be politician.
Unabomber for President	Somehow, there was a presidential campaign for an infamous serial killer serving eight life sentences in a supermax prison.
Veracity of statements by Donald Trump	Despite the constant negative press covfefe.
Vermin Supreme	A presidential candidate with a boot on his head, who carries around a large toothbrush and pledges that, if elected, he will give every U.S. citizen a pony.
White House horseshoe pit	Where George H. W. Bush won an epic duel of horseshoes 21-0 in five minutes.
Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan	A fictitious scientific study by J.G. Ballard supposedly circulated at the 1980 Republican Convention which, among other things, compared the face of Ronald Reagan to a penile erection.
The Wizard of New Zealand	A friend of the Prime Minister of New Zealand who he made the "Wizard of New Zealand."
Above Znoneofthe	A Canadian politician who changed his name so that people would misread it as "none of the above" on the ballot (with the Z added to appear at the end of the list) and pick his name by mistake.
Nicolás Zúñiga y Miranda	Mexican eccentric who participated in the country's presidential elections no less than ten times. He always lost but claimed to be the victor, and considered himself to be the country's president for several decades.

Business and economics

Orion in the sky, EURion on your money.

...we're going to need a bigger wallet.

Gamestonks.

1933 double eagle	An extremely rare U.S. coin that is illegal to privately own.
BackpackersXpress	It's hard to see what went wrong with this proposal to fly Boeing 747s full of singing, dancing and drinking backpackers between Australia and the UK.
Big Mac Index	Big Mac economics.
Billboard Utilising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions	Or "BUGA-UP" for short. An Australian group of subversive artists who live up to their self-description by defacing tobacco and alcohol billboard advertisements to promote healthy living.
Boss key	A special button on an application used to quickly mask an employee's counterproductivity.
Dead cat bounce	In finance, a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock, because "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height."
Dead mall	That formerly active and popular mall that no one goes to anymore.
Elongated coin	What better souvenir than a mangled and defaced penny.
EURion constellations	Not-so-secret recognition patterns you can find on banknotes.
Fukuppy	A branding exercise by a Japanese refrigeration company, which turned into a, well, ...
GameStop short squeeze	Internet traders meme their way into a battle for Wall Street. To the moon!
Ghetto tourism	And if you look to your left you will see an impoverished minority neighborhood.
Gruen transfer	In shopping mall design, the moment when consumers enter a mall or store and, surrounded by an intentionally confusing layout, lose track of their original intentions, making them more susceptible to making impulse buys.
Hungarian pengő	The worst inflation in history caused this currency to be replaced with another that was 400,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000 times its value.
Inflatable rat	Nothing makes a labor statement like a blow-up monster rat.
Men's Underwear Index	An economic indicator popularised by Alan Greenspan.
Merchant marine of Switzerland	A landlocked country with a significant commercial fleet.
Oil futures drunk-trading incident	A rather costly drunken mistake.
Parliamentary train	In the United Kingdom, it is cheaper to keep an unwanted railway station open than to close it. This is why there are some railway stations not officially closed with no services in the United Kingdom.
Purple squirrel	Mythical creature, a job candidate with precisely the right education, experience, and qualifications that perfectly fits a job's requirements.
Rai stones	Stone money, some of which is 3 meters (10 ft) in diameter, and weighs 4 metric tons (8,800 lb).
Swastika Laundry	A laundry service whose electric vans cheerfully displayed the notorious symbol around Dublin until the 1960s.
Tanganyika groundnut scheme	A scheme, stymied by a lack of water, to grow peanuts where none had been grown before.
Therbligs	In motion studies, the elemental motions used by a person when performing a process in the workplace. Named by and after Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth (yes, the parents in Cheaper by the Dozen)
Ting Hai effect	A sudden drop in the stock market that follows whenever Hong Kong actor Adam Cheng stars in a new TV show.
Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!	An ad campaign that figured the best way to sell cigarettes is to show all the consumers with black eyes.
Veblen good	Goods whose demand increases as price increases, violating the law of demand.
Zero rupee note	A method of reducing bribery in India.
Trillion-dollar coin	A concept that was proposed as a way to bypass US debt-ceiling crisis through the minting of high-value platinum coins.

Law, law enforcement and crime

An acoustic kitty. Well, almost.

Not my first thought when you said "armored personnel carrier".

A fruit or a vegetable?
A vegetable or a fruit?
A vegetable.

2007 Boston Mooninite panic	A guerilla marketing campaign for an animated TV series that quickly became a homeland security issue.
62 Cases of Jam v. United States	When is imitation jam not jam?
Sada Abe	Sensational journalism—from the Land of the Rising Sun.
Acoustic Kitty	A failed CIA experiment at using a cat for covert surveillance.
Animal trial	Historically, the law in some areas of Europe subjected animals to criminal liability for their conduct.
Baby Jesus theft	When a child is gone...
Batman v. Commissioner	Batman said his teenage son was his partner. The Commissioner wasn't having any of it.
Batman rapist	Batman's back at it again, but this time it's actually a sex offender who attacked woman in the city of Bath.
Beard tax	Used to be imposed in England and Russia.
Bowling Green massacre	A nonexistent massacre mentioned by the Trump administration, subject to parody.
Chewbacca defense	"Now, why would Wikipedia have an article about the Chewbacca defense? That does not make sense!"
Cicada 3301	Criminals or puzzle enthusiasts?
Crime in Antarctica	Regulated by the 1959 Antarctic Treaty.
Michael Cicconetti	A judge renowned for his strange alternative punishments.
Danish flag rules	Why the only flag you can burn legally in Denmark is the Danish one.
Dead Man's Statute	Prevent a witness from testifying about communications with a dead person.
Emo killings in Iraq	Music fans killed for their alleged Satan worship and homosexuality.
Free Bench	An unusual English legal custom permitting a widow to inherit her deceased husband's land. In one version, she would have to ride into court backwards on a black ram while reciting a nonsense verse.
FTC v. Balls of Kryptonite	In some ways, the U.S. government is more powerful than Superman.
Glasgow Ice Cream Wars	In 1984, violent conflicts between ice-cream vendors left six people dead.
Troy Leon Gregg	Escaped from death row, got killed in a bar fight that same night.
Guano Islands Act	This strange piece of legislation enables citizens of the U.S. to take possession of islands containing guano deposits.
Hermesmann v. Seyer	A Kansas Supreme Court case that decided that a 12-year-old boy who was molested by his 16-year-old babysitter had to pay for her child support.
Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal	A craft store chain purchases stolen Iraqi artifacts.
I know it when I see it	"Not that, but something sort of like that?"
Jarvis v Swans Tours Ltd	A legal complaint about the lack of gemütlichkeit during a Swiss Christmas holiday.
A moron in a hurry	A real legal doctrine used in passing-off law.
Not proven	A controversial Scots law verdict for those neither guilty nor innocent.
Lawsuits against the Devil	Who would you think had the best lawyers?
Lawsuits against God	A notoriously apathetic defendant, he/she/it has never turned up for one of his/her/its hearings.
Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc.	Would you expect to be able to swap 7 million points (worth $700,000) for a Harrier jump jet (worth $22 million)? This man did and took Pepsi to court when they failed to supply him one. Unsurprisingly – to everyone except him – he lost the case.
Lesbian rule	Not the replacement for the Patriarchy, but an archaic term meaning legal flexibility (and originally a building tool from Lesbos).
Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants	When an old lady accidentally spilled hot coffee on her own lap and sued McDonald's over it.
Ricardo López	An obsessed fan who attempted to kill Icelandic singer Björk by a letter bomb rigged with sulfuric acid.
Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano	A Guatemalan attorney who arranged his own death and blamed it on the President, seeking justice for his murdered girlfriend.
Manacled Mormon case	The religious rape case that became a movie and involved the cloning of a dog.
Massachusetts School Laws	How 17th-century Massachusetts sought to rid itself of the Prince of Darkness.
The Matrix defense	A claim that the defendant committed a crime under the belief of being inside a simulated reality. The defense has been successful more than once.
Memoirs v. Massachusetts	A U.S. Supreme Court case concerning whether the 1749 book Fanny Hill was entitled to First Amendment protection. One of the dissenting opinions contained an extensive discussion of the supposedly pornographic content.
McMartin preschool trial	The most expensive trial in U.S. history, a sexual abuse trial in which hundreds of children made bizarre allegations of flying and killing giraffes, orgies at car washes, flying in hot-air balloons, and being flushed down toilets into secret underground rooms where they were abused. They also claimed Chuck Norris was a Satanic Cult leader.
Miles v. City Council of Augusta, Georgia	Can a city require a business license for a talking cat, and does the cat have free-speech rights?
Monkey selfie copyright dispute	An actual monkey made a monkey out of the law.
Nix v. Hedden	The U.S. Supreme Court decides that the tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit.
Onion Futures Act	Why you can't buy any onion futures, but you can for corn, oats, rice, aluminum, crude oil, wood, etc.
Perry Mason moment	"Mr. Menendez, did you know Big 5 stopped selling handguns in 1986?"
Phantom of Heilbronn	A DNA-traced serial killer, also known as the "Woman without a face", who turned out to be nonexistent.
Prawo Jazdy (alleged criminal)	You know that one about the Irish cops who tried to arrest a Polish driving licence?
Prenda Law	A law firm that blackmailed people for allegedly downloading pornography; the firm was described by one court as a "porno-trolling collective".
Prohibition of dying	There are really some places where death is illegal. (Although it is unknown what happens to anyone who breaks this law.)
Sand theft	What do you mean I can't take the sand home?
Shaggy defense	Caught committing a crime, but don't know what to do? Say it wasn't you.
Small penis rule	A technique used by authors to avoid libel lawsuits.
Stambovsky v. Ackley	Also known as the "Ghostbusters case", the court ruled that a house in Nyack, New York was legally haunted by ghosts.
State v. Linkhaw	He sang so badly in church that a jury found him guilty of "disturbing a religious congregation".
Taxation of illegal income in the United States	Don't worry: you can deduct your illegal activity expenses.
The Beatles (terrorist cell)	Who would've thought ISIS had good taste in music?
Keron Thomas	In 1993, aged sixteen, he posed as a motorman on the New York City Subway and managed to operate a scheduled passenger train for over three hours.
Andre Thomas	Serial killer who tore out his eyes and consumed them in order to prevent the government from reading his mind.
Twinkie defense	When you don't want to go to jail.
Toy Biz, Inc. v. United States	Are the X-Men humans under U.S. law?
Trial of the Pyx	Whence the British Pound lands in court every year.
Ugly law	A type of U.S. city ordinance banning anyone "diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object" from being in public.
United Airlines Flight 976	The worst case of air rage ever? Or just a very bad case of traveler's diarrhea?
United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness	The FDA will not tolerate misbranding.
United States v. Causby	Planes vs. farmers.
United States ex rel. Gerald Mayo v. Satan and His Staff	Who has jurisdiction over Satan?
United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins	The fins won a case that turned on whether buying something from someone counts as "aiding or assisting" them.
United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls	Yes, they sued cardboard boxes containing clacker balls. Fifty thousand of them, more or less.
Angie Sanclemente Valencia	A former lingerie model alleged to have run one of the largest drug cartels in the world.
Whipping Tom	On seeing an unaccompanied woman, he would grab her, lift her dress, and slap her buttocks repeatedly before fleeing. He would sometimes accompany his attacks by shouting "Spanko!"
Wet feet, dry feet policy	America seems to not like wet feet.

Punishments

"Had a little too much to drink, have we, sir?"

Bamboo torture	Death by a growing bamboo shoot.
Disneyland with the Death Penalty	Best way to describe Singapore according to William Gibson.
Drunkard's cloak	Attire for the village drunk.
Hanged, drawn and quartered	Dark Ages punishment for high treason.
Rough music	A form of vigilantism, more loud than violent.
Schwedentrunk	Victims were bound and were forced to swallow large amounts of foul liquid, usually excrement.
Scold's bridle	A muzzle for the nagging wife.
Whipping boy	A boy who received corporal punishment for misdemeanors of a prince; as well as some of his privileges.

See also

• List of fictional Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
• List of fictional U.S. Presidents
• List of frivolous political parties
• List of nicknames used by George W. Bush
• List of nicknames used by Donald Trump
• List of scandals with "-gate" suffix