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01-03-2006, 12:13 PM
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Things Not Bob reads while on a conference call, episode 728.
From a list of one-star Amazon reviews about Time Magazine's list of the one hundred best novels (from The Morning News, via www.consumerist.com).
- The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Author: William Faulkner
“This book is like an ungrateful girlfriend. You do your best to understand her and get nothing back in return.”
Amen. With apologies to our own occasional poster Wm. Faulkner, of course.
link to the whole list: http://www.themorningnews.org/archiv...statements.php |
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01-03-2006, 12:14 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Romantically enfranchised
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Hi 2006
Anything interesting happen while I was gone?
As of New Years Eve, I have confirmed my suspicion that I have a girl-crush on Neko Case.
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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01-03-2006, 12:17 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Monty Capuletti's gazebo
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Got on board a west-bound seven, forty seven.
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Originally posted by Not Bob
Indeed.
Plaintiffs' lawyers suck. Discuss.
If there are any of them on the FB, then present company is excluded, of course. Unless any of you are the lawyer who had the effrontery to sue Piggly-Wiggly for an old guy's fall at the now-bankrupt dollar store next door ("because the sign says that it is the Piggly-Wiggly Plaza, Not Bob, that's why").
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I don't get a defense lawyer disliking plaintiff's lawyers, or vice versa. Why?
I also don't understand the idiotic need to identify with one group. I used to do both types of cases at the same time. I'd work for a bank in one case, a debtor in another. I've sued an insurer while working for an insurer. It's all just business. I can't imagine getting emotionally involved in this silliness. This idea of exclusively "being on the side of the common man" or "being on the side of business" is so gay. On the criminal side, US Attys and DAs jump over to the defense side to make more money all the time.
I don't see how anyone can be really good at either defense or plaintiff's work wwithout having worked on the other side of the table. It helps you understand your adversary.
If I had my druthers were I forced to remain a lawyer, I'd probably be a crim defense lawyer again (if only it paid what I need...). The idea of prosecuting people and ferreting out corporate malfeasance just doesn't do it for me. I'm too soft. I think everybody deserves a few scandals, arrests, etc... I don't like the moralizing and zero tolerance attitude that goes along with suing people. We all make mistakes. I feel bad holding people accountable.
But, I do have bills, so I do what pays, whatever side of the table it might place me on...
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01-03-2006, 12:19 PM
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Proud Holder-Post 200,000
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Got on board a west-bound seven, forty seven.
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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
If I had my druthers were I forced to remain a lawyer, I'd probably be a crim defense lawyer again (if only it paid what I need...). The idea of prosecuting people and ferreting out corporate malfeasance just doesn't do it for me. I'm too soft. I think everybody deserves a few scandals, arrests, etc... I don't like the moralizing and zero tolerance attitude that goes along with suing people. We all make mistakes. I feel bad holding people accountable.
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If you did thart kind of law, and a collectible client didn't pay you, would you sue?
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I will not suffer a fool- but I do seem to read a lot of their posts
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01-03-2006, 12:25 PM
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Livin' a Lie!
Join Date: May 2003
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Got on board a west-bound seven, forty seven.
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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I don't get a defense lawyer disliking plaintiff's lawyers, or vice versa. Why?
I also don't understand the idiotic need to identify with one group. I used to do both types of cases at the same time. I'd work for a bank in one case, a debtor in another. I've sued an insurer while working for an insurer. It's all just business. I can't imagine getting emotionally involved in this silliness. This idea of exclusively "being on the side of the common man" or "being on the side of business" is so gay. On the criminal side, US Attys and DAs jump over to the defense side to make more money all the time.
I don't see how anyone can be really good at either defense or plaintiff's work wwithout having worked on the other side of the table. It helps you understand your adversary.
If I had my druthers were I forced to remain a lawyer, I'd probably be a crim defense lawyer again (if only it paid what I need...). The idea of prosecuting people and ferreting out corporate malfeasance just doesn't do it for me. I'm too soft. I think everybody deserves a few scandals, arrests, etc... I don't like the moralizing and zero tolerance attitude that goes along with suing people. We all make mistakes. I feel bad holding people accountable.
But, I do have bills, so I do what pays, whatever side of the table it might place me on...
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Blah, blah blah. You'd never be a good plaintiff's lawyer. |
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01-03-2006, 12:26 PM
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Moderator
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Got on board a west-bound seven, forty seven.
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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
If you did thart kind of law, and a collectible client didn't pay you, would you sue?
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I'm fine with debt collection.
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01-03-2006, 12:26 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
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Christmas Day Night
These guys are from Houston. I'm so proud...
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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01-03-2006, 12:27 PM
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Moderator
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Got on board a west-bound seven, forty seven.
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Originally posted by pony_trekker
Blah, blah blah. You'd never be a good plaintiff's lawyer.
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Why would you think that?
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01-03-2006, 12:49 PM
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Itinerant author/drunkard
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Things Not Bob reads while on a conference call, episode 728.
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Originally posted by Not Bob
From a list of one-star Amazon reviews about Time Magazine's list of the one hundred best novels (from The Morning News, via www.consumerist.com).
- The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Author: William Faulkner
“This book is like an ungrateful girlfriend. You do your best to understand her and get nothing back in return.”
Amen. With apologies to our own occasional poster Wm. Faulkner, of course.
link to the whole list: http://www.themorningnews.org/archiv...statements.php
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No offense taken, NotBob. In related news, I had no idea that our own Mr. Chinaski was a one-star Amazon reviewer. To him I say, don't lose heart, dear sir. Dedication to one's art, even in the face of withering reviews, is essential.
Wm. Faulkner
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I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
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01-03-2006, 12:50 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Leave of Absence
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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
The more I think about it, the more I think that this is one of the more inspired ideas to come out of this board. Maybe ever. What are the other epic partying destinations/events in Europe? I would try to hit a DJ show at Cavo Paradiso, nestled in the cliffs above Paradise Beach on Mykonos. Find a weekend when some popular DJ is there - I think the shows basically go all night. After the show, head down to Paradise Beach in the morning and check out the hottie topless Italian chicks.
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Dunno about Europe, but my sister has been putting together a bunch of parties for the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in conjunction with the Basquiat show. If you go to any, I'd recommend the one on February 11, with Grand Master Flash, which happens to be during NBA All Star weekend. My sister is kinda worried that she's going to have to come up with a VIP wing instead of just a room. The first two parties had about 3000 attendees at each, and aside from long lines at the first party (due to a greater than expected turnout) at the bars, there haven't been many compliants.
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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01-03-2006, 12:50 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Things Not Bob reads while on a conference call, episode 728.
Quote:
Originally posted by Not Bob
From a list of one-star Amazon reviews about Time Magazine's list of the one hundred best novels (from The Morning News, via www.consumerist.com).
- The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Author: William Faulkner
“This book is like an ungrateful girlfriend. You do your best to understand her and get nothing back in return.”
Amen. With apologies to our own occasional poster Wm. Faulkner, of course.
link to the whole list: http://www.themorningnews.org/archiv...statements.php
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About Gravity's Rainbow, someone says:
- “When one contrasts Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five with this book, it’s like comparing an Olympic sprinter with an obese man running for the bus with a hot dog in one hand and a soda in the other.”
Is that really a complaint?
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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01-03-2006, 12:57 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Podunkville
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And that's not greasy kid's stuff.
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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I don't get a defense lawyer disliking plaintiff's lawyers, or vice versa. Why?
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Exaggeration. Some of my best friends (no, really) sue actual or potential clients of mine.
I was just grousing about the particular plaintiff's lawyer in my case (who is a nice enough guy, personally, and we haven't had any discovery spats) because his theory of the case is so different from the way my client is looking at it.
"So what?" you say. "Who cares if he looks at it differently? Can't we all just get along?" Well, I care. It meant that I worked this weekend instead of going to the Vitalis Bowl. |
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01-03-2006, 01:06 PM
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Livin' a Lie!
Join Date: May 2003
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Got on board a west-bound seven, forty seven.
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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Why would you think that?
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Too ambivalent such that I know you haven't had a sip of the kool aid. |
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01-03-2006, 01:07 PM
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And that's not greasy kid's stuff.
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Originally posted by Not Bob
Exaggeration. Some of my best friends (no, really) sue actual or potential clients of mine.
I was just grousing about the particular plaintiff's lawyer in my case (who is a nice enough guy, personally, and we haven't had any discovery spats) because his theory of the case is so different from the way my client is looking at it.
"So what?" you say. "Who cares if he looks at it differently? Can't we all just get along?" Well, I care. It meant that I worked this weekend instead of going to the Vitalis Bowl.
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Get an extension... they hand them out like candy this time of year.
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01-03-2006, 01:09 PM
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Livin' a Lie!
Join Date: May 2003
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And that's not greasy kid's stuff.
Quote:
Originally posted by Not Bob
I was just grousing about the particular plaintiff's lawyer in my case (who is a nice enough guy, personally, and we haven't had any discovery spats) because his theory of the case is so different from the way my client is looking at it.
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View from the plaintiff's bar:
Similar to hockey, if you're having [discovery] fights then you are probably losing [the case]. Mostly we focus on putting the puck in the net. If you won't give us discovery, it's OK, we'll get the dirt we need on our own. |
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