HOW TO LAY WELL?
 

What? Where do you sit? Let's meet at the soda machine.

Poster Boys
 

Beaten to it. Nevermind.

TM

The Mole
 

More disturbing is the thought of what he is doing in his office while he is looking at the porn.

Your avatar reminds me that I watched Celebrity Mole last night. Rodman is not going to make it because he is not paying attention to the clues (or much of anything for that matter) but I think they'll keep him around for ratings since I don't think many people are tuning in to see Keisha Knight Pulliam.

They'll keep hot chick on too, since has proven that she freely removes her clothing.

Groundhog Day
 

I have this overwhelming feeling of Deja Vu

HOW TO LIE WELL?
 

sheesh. this is an old one.

You lost your contact lens. You think it fell into your lap. You of course, couldn't see, so she was helping you find it.

HOW TO LIE WELL?
 

CYA letters are for chickenshits. If I'm going down for something I did wrong, you'll have a devil of a time proving it from the lack of docs, and if you can prove it, you deserve a nice fat check from my malpractice carrier.

PSA: Time for a New Thread
 

Just noticed that we blew past 5k posts a while back...

From the looks of it ABBA has the honor of starting the new thread.

Carry on.

HOW TO LIE WELL?
 

I know I don't wear contacts, Usually, dear, but I had gotten some to try. It really is hard to keep them in, you know.

And I know I don't wear glasses, but I wanted the contacts that change your eye color, you know, so I'd have sparkling blue eyes like yours.

Um, yes, I know you don't like blue eyes in men.

HOW TO LIE WELL?
 

You miss the point. CYA letters and "memos to file" are for when someone ELSE tells you to do something wrong and you want backup to show that your partner is the actual idiot.

Disco Stu never lies
 

It's all in the details. Have you heard the story about 2 college kids who went out the night before their (insert name of class) final, hooked up with some subile spinning hippy chicks and other recreational substances etc. etc. and missed the final.

They went to the Prof with a story about getting a flat tire in East Podunkville and being stuck for hours. This was before the days of cell phones.

The Prof allows them to retake the final. When they show up for the test, he puts them in seperate classrooms. There is one question on the test. "Which tire?"

HOW TO LIE WELL?
 

Or, when the client is stupid and blows off an issue that you've warned him will blow up in his face as "a picky lawyer point we don't want to waste time negotiating with these guys" - those are the ones that end "The client then informed me that he was willing to accept that business risk and expressly instructed me to spend no further time researching or attempting to redraft to circumvent the issue."

Having had one of our litigators bring such a memo to me 3-4 years later laughing his ass off, I have realized that most litigators have no clue how document & deal negotiations work in practice; they seem to think the corp lawyers who draft these things (with weird language that doesn't quite work and odd gaps in them) are all idiots.

Disco Stu never lies
 

That prof still teaches at Duke.

Disco Stu never lies
 

We totally got screwed on that one.

But it was worth it.

HOW TO LAY WELL?
 

A week after September 11, 2001, the weekly staff meeting was held. This was the first time everyone in the office had the chance to actually talk about what had happened and share stories. It was still very a very raw and emotional time, and we were all glad to be in the same room with one another and really have a chance to talk. Boss walks in, says something about how sad it was and that we all had better stop procrastinating and using 9/11 as an excuse for not working. He lectured us for 20 minutes and then the meeting was over.

Six weeks later, the mass resignation started. I called a headhunter immediately after the meeting. So did two other attorneys in our group, and as far as I know my former boss is the only person still at the firm who was at that staff meeting.