The discussion of Less-as-a-boy is really creeping me out.

gettin crazy?
 

Hey which of you crazy MFs is up for joinin' us on this fine spring day for a little happy hour lunacy?!!? Paigs? spankster? ncs? Lestertini?

Hog Island Oyster Compay?!?!?

Par-tay! par-tay!

That is what is still written below his Avatar. How am I supposed to know any different, we almost never post to the same board.

Weak excuse. You're obviously being deferential to him. From now on, if you refer to me as anything other than Mr. Finch I'll be upset.

who's stalkin' who?
 

Got a kitchen? If so I have a surefire way you can cure that condition and spawn another a "friendship" with 30 years of memories (or at least 5 and counting) to come.

who's stalkin' who?
 

Should I know the person pictured on your Avatar?

who's stalkin' who?
 

Gimme a break, it was my time of month.

who's stalkin' who?
 

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So the picture is at least eight months old?

who's stalkin' who?
 

Now I am really confused

who's stalkin' who?
 

You still here, woof woof!

who's stalkin' who?
 

Next time forget to take my poker chips.

eta: Different boards, different log-ins, get with the program Spank.

who's stalkin' who?
 

Why - so there'll be more for the rest of us?

who's stalkin' who?
 

Confidential to Spanky: Inquiries regarding avatars rarely produce conversations of general interest to Old Skoolers, even when directed to the Oldest. It's safest simply to assume that the poster is expressing fanboy admiration for a movie, cartoon, or reality television program. You may be familiar with the phenomenon thanks to the theatre geeks who always thought "Bring out your dead!" was an IJOTD in any HS context. I believe str8outtavannuys calls this sort of thing an "eighty-five-percenter."

who's stalkin' who?
 

You I don't mind so much, as long as my chips get recycled into a gift certificate for a GA for Harris' steakhouse, a bottle of Petrus and a box of cigars.

who's stalkin' who?
 

I don't know what the fuck you are talkingh about but I am the penultimate old-skooler around, in terms of posting time, not real years.

Its 5:24- time to shit on Atticus's Bed.
 

Who's coming? I choose Eastside West in the heart of the Triangle in Cow Hollow. Lets get Spanky laid. And Less laid one more time. If thats possible.

Who's in?

who's stalkin' who?
 

AG mentioned the blue book. is that something I should see when i'm in San Fransisco? Can my kid go to see it?

who's stalkin' who?
 

As long as I can skip the foreplay and get to the stuff that really matters.

Its 5:24- time to shit on Atticus's Bed.
 

It would almost be worth it to see you falling on a sawdust-covered bar floor several times. Almost.

nsiijotd?
 

You da boss.

nsiijotd?
 

Actually, I'm the boss.

So cut it out, jackass.

nsiijotd?
 

I thought Less was the boss?

nsiijotd?
 

In the kingdom of the blind, even the one-eyed man is King.

Drown In My Own Tears
 

Uncool shamfeul and classless unfunny post of teh day.

That's it for me. I'm done. I'm off to my dreayr, lonely apartment and settling in wiht yet another night of television and quart of HAagen Das.

Namaste.

nsiijotd?
 

OKay, now I'm confused.

nsiijotd?
 

You mean subjectively, right? Objectively this post is simply redundant.

nsiijotd?
 

Uh-oh. The cycle has restarted. First there will be some seemingly innocuous, even moderately serious responses. Then the ever so slightly barbed comments like this. In a few days, Hank will be in full-on Sidd-stalker mode, responding to random posts by random GAs with the suggestion that I'm a slip-and-fall lawyer or that I am trolling high school gyms for dates. The only unknown is whether he'll type the stalker-posts with his right hand or his left.

nsiijotd?
 

why does anyone factor practice into a poster's persona? I remember having a really good argument on Politics (old one) and the guy said he had to leave to go to a S&S hearing (search and seizure) and somehow I felt superior since he was doing criminal work. Meanwhile if the guy's arguments were good it shouldn't matter if he were a garbage man should it?

nsiijotd?
 

I'm not sure, but you seem to.


I have to wonder, though, why you felt superior to someone doing criminal work. It's a much better way to start your practice -- you have a lot more fun, you go to court constantly, and in two or three years you get a lifetime of stories. Most of the best trial lawyers I know started their careers as criminal lawyers. They may not be as fluent with Lexis as you are, but I think they can pretty easily compensate for that feeling of inadequacy.

nsiijotd?
 

I can't do Lexis:( and what's wrong with pawn shop law, or whatever it was you said I do?

The best nuts and bolts court room guy I know started out doing insurance defense work. The pure criminal people I know stay in it. I don't openly feel superior, but I'm honest with myself that for a moment in that instance I did.

nsiijotd?
 

Just wait for the next late night drinking binge. Then you'll be a full-fledged member of the club.

nsiijotd?
 

I can name a dozen top civil lawyers in the SF area, and a few in other regions, who spent many years as prosecutors or public defenders. I know many other younger lawyers who spent a few years in criminal law, including me, who then went on to civil firms.



Good for you.

nsiijotd?
 

Maybe you're right. I only know IP people and they don't tend to go that way.]

nsiijotd?
 

Ever hear of John Keker?

Most of the former criminal lawyers I was thinking of are in IP, though some are in securities and related fields.

IP people do go that way here; maybe it's because there have been aggressive IP/tech crime prosecutors in the Bay Area and so it's a relatively easy jump. But I suspect if you looked in other areas, and focused on firms that do IP litigation and that try a lot of cases, you would find a lot of others.

Keker's bio -- t.s.

Drown In My Own Tears
 

Boy was my evening dreary and lonely, and boy was the Haagen Daz cold and runny. Much more of this and I will be carrying twins.

nsiijotd?
 

This hurts my feelings. I have never been anything but polite to you, especially this year. The thing you keep remembering is that Atticus is convinced you are a guy. I brought that up once and ever since you keep attacking me. You have a cutting wit and a very pronounced mean streak. The fact that you are more clever than I in your posts so that you win flame wars with me does not mean that I am drunk or stupid. Perhaps it only means I am a bit too classy to engage in the fight.

nsiijotd?
 

If (s)he is cleverer, you are stupid. Drunk wouldn't begin to cover it.

nsiijotd?
 

You realize this is NFH and not ncs, right?

nsiijotd?
 

So you're saying you were sober during the late night rant? This scares me more than a little.

eta I'm the mean one? I have never called anyone any names. I hate the name calling. And yet I've been called many many hurtful things. I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

moveon.org
 

Worst.

Flamewar.

Ever.