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Shape Shifter · 10-13-2005, 03:50 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Wrong board?

And by now the book club should be finishing Chapter 5 of "Never Let Me Go." Summaries are due to me by 5 PM sunday so I may distribute to the group. So far, I am still missing the Chapter 5summaries from SS, and 4 and 5 from ncs, Club and Ty. Spanky has yet to provide any analysis. Are you still with us?

Paigow had some real pointed insights into Chapter 5, and I think may take the best observations/analysis hat away from SS that he won for his Chapter 4 analysis.

Finally, Penske, once again hasn't really done anything. A photoshop of Hillary tiled is not an analysis of the dangers of cloning, nor at all on message to involuntary organ transplants.

He was arrested for making an obscene clone fall.

Atticus Grinch · 10-14-2005, 04:53 AM

A second or two passed, then Olson said, "Excuse me, your honor," before crumpling to the floor. Several spectators gasped, while others ran for help.

Give the man props for his manners given what he was going through. Although if you represent dirtbag health insurance plans, you'd wear the scorn of the First District like a mantle of finest ermine.

robustpuppy · 10-14-2005, 11:31 AM

I always thought we lawyers were supposed to be circumspect in our statements; all the moreso if we represent criminal defendants. But I must have been freaked out on drugs.

(spree: lawyer defending man who punched out airplane window makes statement unlikely to generate more clients.)

Spanky · 10-14-2005, 02:57 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I am holding my chapter summaries until I receive some evidence that anyone is reading my selection, Collapse.

I am halfway through Collapse and, as you know, I have finished Until I Find You.

Hank - Chapter 5!, that is what, fifty pages into the book? That is like 8%. I am pretty sure you are still in Jacks European tour as a six year old.

Pathetic.

Atticus Grinch · 10-15-2005, 08:03 PM

Another 1L hypo goes IRL.

Sparklehorse · 10-16-2005, 07:01 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I always thought we lawyers were supposed to be circumspect in our statements; all the moreso if we represent criminal defendants. But I must have been freaked out on drugs.

(spree: lawyer defending man who punched out airplane window makes statement unlikely to generate more clients.)

Here's another one to avoid:

It's a terrible case involving incest and infanticide. The father of the babies in this case has a lawyer who said of him to the press: "his client is far from the "beast" portrayed in media accounts. Instead, he said, his client was a "pathetic little man" who seemed "scared and subdued, and he seemed not to comprehend what was happening."

NY Times article link

10-19-2005, 03:18 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
No: and there will be no more correspondence with Paigow. As she said: fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

What if I fool you a third time? Or never fooled you in the first place? Or post hockedly claimed to fool you but never really did until you bought the Post Hoc?

I do own the Irving book but am currently reading The Devils Teeth. I think I know where Lessapalooza should be held.

NotFromHere · 10-20-2005, 02:44 PM

And a super idiot.

OKLAHOMA CITY - A man got a prison term longer than prosecutors and defense attorneys had agreed to — all because of Larry Bird.

The lawyers reached a plea agreement Tuesday for a 30-year term for a man accused of shooting with an intent to kill and robbery. But Eric James Torpy wanted his prison term to match Bird’s jersey number 33.

“He said if he was going to go down, he was going to go down in Larry Bird’s jersey,” Oklahoma County District Judge Ray Elliott said Wednesday. “We accommodated his request and he was just as happy as he could be.

the rest

Hank Chinaski · 10-20-2005, 11:20 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
And a super idiot.

OKLAHOMA CITY - A man got a prison term longer than prosecutors and defense attorneys had agreed to — all because of Larry Bird.

The lawyers reached a plea agreement Tuesday for a 30-year term for a man accused of shooting with an intent to kill and robbery. But Eric James Torpy wanted his prison term to match Bird’s jersey number 33.

“He said if he was going to go down, he was going to go down in Larry Bird’s jersey,” Oklahoma County District Judge Ray Elliott said Wednesday. “We accommodated his request and he was just as happy as he could be.

the rest

Maybe he's hoping they'll let him walk, like they did Bird.

Penske_Account · 10-20-2005, 11:55 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Maybe he's hoping they'll let him walk, like they did Bird.

Your wife paid me with $33 bills that one weekend.........

Hank Chinaski · 10-21-2005, 12:00 AM

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
Your wife paid me with $33 bills that one weekend.........

My post was inspired
yours was expired

if your flames don't hit
maybe you should just sit
down.

Penske_Account · 10-21-2005, 12:17 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
My post was inspired
yours was expired

if your flames don't hit
maybe you should just sit
down.

Turning your wife's phottoshoppe handiwork on you hurts, no? Sorry....I will take it easy it on you for the rest of the night.

Hank Chinaski · 10-23-2005, 07:24 PM

Final vote counts are in. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell is the next book for the Official book club. as you know, I felt that we should stick to novels, and more recent books. But Ty made some compelling points.

Buy your copy from Amazon's Lawtalkers link!

First 3 Chapters to be read this week.

Penske_Account · 10-24-2005, 02:43 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Final vote counts are in. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell is the next book for the Official book club.

How about Mao: The Unknown Story By Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.??

It was reviewed by Nicolas Kristoff in the Sunday Times:

......a biography of Mao that will help destroy his reputation forever. Based on a decade of meticulous interviews and archival research, this magnificent biography methodically demolishes every pillar of Mao's claim to sympathy or legitimacy

I know it will shatter a lot of the allusions, ideals and (a)moral underpinnings of the looney left who troll these boards, but for the rest of us it might be a nice cautionary warning of the continued danger of communism, the RedChinese and the Clintons.

Thoughts?

NotFromHere · 11-03-2005, 04:10 PM

DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- Home Depot was sued by a shopper from a Kentucky store who claims he got stuck to a restroom toilet seat because a prankster had smeared it with glue.

Bob Dougherty, 57, accused employees of ignoring his cries for help for about 15 minutes because they thought he was kidding.

"They left me there, going through all that stress," Dougherty told The Daily Camera, of Boulder. "They just let me rot."

The lawsuit, filed Friday, said Dougherty was recovering from heart bypass surgery and thought he was having a heart attack when he got stuck at the store in Louisville, Colorado, on the day before Halloween 2003.

A store employee who heard him calling for help informed the head clerk by radio, but the head clerk "believed it to be a hoax," the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit said store officials called for an ambulance after about 15 minutes.

Paramedics unbolted the toilet seat, and Dougherty, "frightened and humiliated," passed out as they wheeled him out of the store, court papers said. The toilet seat separated from his skin, leaving abrasions.

"This is not Home Depot's fault," Dougherty said. "But I am blaming them for letting me hang in there and just ignoring me."

Maybe he'll get a couple thousand for the nuisance suit, but it is funny. That'll teach him for not using the ass gaskets.