Fashion Board 12-09-03 through 1-08-04

[evenodds]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
old school. dots* with the neighbors.


*not sure that is the official name of it, but whatever the one where you connect dots to form boxes and then put your initial in the boxes that you've formed.

Between that and crossword puzzles, we never had to pay attention in class.

I uncovered some of my old lawschool notes a couple of months ago: the drama, the angst, the politics, the drinking.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by leagleaze
It does seem to be garnering more attention this morning. The press seems to have picked up, but it is not anything like the Jackson case and will never draw that much attention.

I think it is mainly the amount fame, as well as the character of the fame of the individuals. Michael Jackson is of a sort that most everything he does engenders some sort of a reaction. The croc guy, not so much. I also think it is the timing. People don't seem to pay as much attention to the news in the week between Christmas and New Year. They come back after New Years and wake up to whatever has been going on.

Michael's babies are also famous, or at least the details of conception, the mom, etc. are public foder.
So when you see Mike holding the kid out a window you think "holy shit, after everything that mom had to go throught, he is risking the kid."
No one knew Croc guy even had a kid.

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I am concerned about Curb. The whole Doctor's office scence was forced, almost cliched "Larry getting himself into something."
His problems always came up organically in the past.

SPOILER

















Concur. Furhter, Larry was totally right on the thing with the wheelchair guy. Usually its amibiguous or Larry looks bad on some level for blowing something out of proportion or being tactless, but Larry had every right to yell at the guy bc it was for his own good.

And Larry could have proved he foudn the guy's wallet by simply saying "how else woudl I know about it?" but he let the guy blow by.

The Ben Stiller snub was right on though. And I am glad that Michale the blind guy who had Richard and Larry do his furniture arranging is back. That guy is hilarious. But what's up with all the blind stuff on last night? Kristin Davis? Is blindness funny?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You're as stupid as Bilmore.

And you're still arguing substantively, I see.

(It's about way more than just the bucks. There's that whole misogyny thing, too.)

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
old school. dots* with the neighbors.


*not sure that is the official name of it, but whatever the one where you connect dots to form boxes and then put your initial in the boxes that you've formed.

I played this regularly during Trusts and Estates. I hated my Trusts and Estates professor with a true blinding passion. She has no control over the class and would let 3 or 4 students constantly commandeer the class by asking stupid questions and spouting stupid hypotheticals until we were so off track, we would have needed a map and a sherpa to get back on point.

Her exam was one of those fill in the balnk types where the questions were the kind like "In my downstairs bathroom, I have painted the west wall ___________." I wanted to kill either her or myself. (If it had been me, I would have died intestate. That is the entire sum of what I learned in Trusts and Estates).

Needless to say, I did not do very well in Trusts and Estates. Which is funny, since about 90% of my practice involves wealth preservation now.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by evenodds
Between that and crossword puzzles, we never had to pay attention in class.

After first year I pretty much did a half asleep thing when I went to class. I also worked on my doodling ability. People would ask to borrow my notes, and then would ask why when I said no. My response was to hold up my "notes" so they could see that all I had been writing were a series of lines and squiggles. Sometimes the lines and squiggles were accompanied by poetry. On occasion, this included dirty limericks.

I wish I had had a laptop. I would have loved to have played video games. Not too many people used them during class though. The fan noise and the tapping irritated the other students.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Yeah, the tool I described above was also a big laptop user. I was going to mention that as part of his utter toolishness, but I recognized that discussing that now just illustrates that I am old....

I remember the "laptop-guy" who sat behind me in some class or other. Typing away madly all the time. Drove me friggin' nuts, because I couldn't even come up with enough to say about the lectures to remember what the class was. One day, I finally turned around and turned his computer screen towards me to find out what was so fucking interesting. He'd reached like the 287th level of Tetris.

Most hated person in my law school class (by me at least) was this chick who was a major prof suck up who went on to clerk at the Supremes. Damn she was annoying.

Silliest person was this woman who was really into race crit/african american legal perspectives stuff. One day in con law (and I'm confident there was probably someone else on this board in the room with me when it happened, but nevermind), we're doing the civil war amendments and she raises her hand and says "so, this is why the minimum wage is unconstitutional?" And everyone is sitting there going "WTF?" And the prof, who was rather known for not controlling discussion well said "um, I'm not sure what you mean, would you clarify?" And she said "well, the minimum wage doesn't provide a living wage for the black people who earn it and therefore is a badge and incident of slavery." (Except for the "you get paid" and the rather more important "you can quit" points, I guess.) So everyone is sort of blinking in stunned silence, and this little voice pipes up from the far side of the room (from the class clown) clear as a bell "she's fuckin' crazy!" The whole class spent the rest of the lecture trying not to overtly crack up.

My favorite guy in LS was the guy who, after some long thing that no one understood enough to even formulate questions, would pipe up and say "maybe I'm stupid or missing something but ..." and then he would clarify exactly where it was that everyone in the entire room had gotten lost, and everyone would immediately break into relieved smiles and say "yeah, what he said." He was the spokesman for our confusion. I sort of developed a crush on him for this.

BR(On another topic, I always found Jeff Goldblum pretty sexy)C

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic


Silliest person was this woman who was really into race crit/african american legal perspectives stuffBR(On another topic, I always found Jeff Goldblum pretty sexy)C

The one guy in my feminist legal theory class of 50 students took up 90% of the class participation time telling us sympathetically how unfair male domination was without ever getting the irony. He finally called it quits late in the semester when, totally mystified, he realized he wasn't going to get laid.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by evenodds
The biggest tool at my law school drove a new black convertible corvette with vanity plates reading "corp law," carried a briefcase with laptop (considered extremely toolish when I was in school) everywhere he went, and carried a cell phone (also considered extremely toolish).

Since I was a class behind Not Bob and Bilmore, the words laptop and cell phone cannot properly describe the hugeness of his equipment.

Sadly, he was kinda hot for a law student.

Our salutorian was a heavy metal nut who we called Garth. He couldn't get a job because, as good as he was on paper, he refused to dress nromally or cut his hair, had acne like a 13 year old and apparantly did nothing to remedy it and had a really mean personality kinda like "Nick Jones the Computer Guy" from SNL. He was really smart and not afraid to remind you exactly how dumb or unprepraed you were.

[purse junkie]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Musi...hot/index.html

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Law school people

I've heard tell of people playing asshole-bingo, where you and a few friends had cards with the flamers names. I have heard in those class some numbskull would ask his hypo and a voice would cry out "bingo!"

I went to night school in D.C. In Con Law, moving into Right of Privacy, I was nervous. We were overall a pretty cohesive group, with esprit de corp of making it through night school, etc. But of course, Right of Privacy is often divisive, and it DC there are always politically extreme students in every class. I figured there'd be fights and our harmony would be shattered.

Anyway, no fights/arguments, at all. Every case was discussed on its merits, with no extraneous commentary. The prof is wrapping up the topic, and I'm thinking we made it, we'll all be tight forever!

Then Prof asked "Any final questions?"
The little Navy Ensign guy who always came to class in his all white best uni, raises his hand "The thing we ALL can't understand is they're letting them KILL babies, aren't they?"

Hilarity ensued.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Good poll topic. Describe your weirdest/most annoying/most interesting classmate in law school (or undergrad if you want to include two answers).

We had a woman in our section with nine children. Five were adopted, and these had a range of disabilities. She said that she wanted to go to law school to learn about disability law and help her kids and kids that were similarly situated. We were all suitably impressed at the beginning.

Soon it became clear that she, in many ways, was using her kids to promote her legal career. Every time we turned around there was another article about her in the papers and the law rags.

She was one of the first people in our class to start carrying around a cell phone and she'd answer it in class. Very annoying.

Also, towards the end of law school she started getting weird with witchcraft. Afterwards she and another classmate opened their own firm, and I think they're doing ok.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
We had one woman in our class who was certainly transgendered (though I never discussed it with her) and she dropped out after second year (a shame b/c she was very smart).

We too had a transgenered woman in our class. She ended up in the top 5 (I think) but couldn't get a BigLaw offer. She started her own shop and is apparently doing well.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski

The little Navy Ensign guy who always came to class in his all white best uni, raises his hand "The thing we ALL can't understand is they're letting them KILL babies, aren't they?"

Hilarity ensued.

Somehow, these are always the ones who take pains to tell you within 5 minutes of meeting you that they were unwanted, but their mothers had them anyway. Like *that's* going to sway that argument in their favor.

which member(s) of our dear community were most likely the law school pain in the asses? We know Thurgreed was the cool guy who sat in theback. No doubt that Atticus was the guy who raised his hand at one minute to the end of class and kept the class over to discuss some esoteric issue of fascinatino to nobodyu but himself, the old guy in the class and the professor. PJ probably voiceed some really prim uptight opinions that were off topic but might have kept the class from getting to the next day's reading. Slave probably spoke a lot in the way that insecure dumb guys who want to seem smart and/or funny do. I imagine that Debtslave got picked on a lot by the profs socratic style. total roadkill.