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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I'd be up in Lewiston or Ketchum area for fishing. A bit of a juant to Boise, but I'll let you know when I get out that way. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Just a note to Mark In Boise
I did a long drawn out USC 1983 suit in Federal court over a totally unfair treatment of my wife's business by New Mexico's old boy network.
I almost won, but missed the 10 day deadline for filing an appeal because my wife talked to some idiot lawyer in Albuquerque who offered to help after a ruling that was against us, the sonofabitch failed to tell my wife that the 10 day filing requirement is set in stone, I filed some fairly convincing briefs, but couldn't roll away that stone and resurrect our case. I purposely have forgotten that Albuquerque lawer's name so I don't drive up there some day and make that sonofabitch slowly chow down on the 40 pounds of paperwork we filed before we got dismissed, before I hung him from the nearest lampost with a sign on his body that says "Here Hangs he Hope of Justice for the Mother of four who started a business in New Mexico, expecting to be fairly considered for Federal Funds", or in short "Eat Rope MFer"!!!
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Location: North Texas | I feel your pain Bailey, been there. I believe the expression is "good old boy network". Justice is getting pretty scarce these days. Like they say, the golden rule means that those with the gold make the rules. That's, unfortunately, one of the great truths. |
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Location: Keller, TX | Oh, come on, take it easy on the lawyers. 99% of them give the rest a bad name. :D ;) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | OK, if you come to my house, I'll go back to the no lawyer talk rule. I could handle the jokes, but the last thing I want to do is spend a bunch of time listening to complaints about lawyers, when we could be spending time playing Ovations. Not that I don't feel for you Bailey, but I defend people who have been sued and I have become biased. |
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Location: SoCal | Mark, you'll get lawyer jokes from me, but I work with a lot of lawyers, many of whom have become personal friends. We tell the jokes back and forth, but we're in "the business" as it were.
Jokes aimed at your profession can be funny from people in the profession and a pain from people outside of it.
I hate being called a "private dick". My dentist used to do that until I told him privately and firmly not to. Mostly it was the firmly..... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | As an accountant, I always get the "HEY! Did you know there's three types of accountants?
Those who can count and those who can't!"
Yeah...very original and hysterical at the same time. Who'da thunk? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | A Bean Counter, Lawyer, Private Dick and Micheal Jackson are in a life boat...eh...maybe this isn't the best time... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Accountant, Lawyer, PD, & Wacko Jacko...yep, that's a Form 7826, Section B, Paragraph III if I ever heard one...damn, better sharpen the pencil and tell the wife I'll be late tonight... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | ...but thank GOD Mikey left the kids home... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Weez.
You are well maladjusted. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Mark in Boise
I couldn't agree with you more about how a good lawyer becomes an advocate for his/hers client, it is how the system works and has worked fo hundreds of years. It is a system I admire and respect, but is not understood very well by most people. I like to compare it to war, where each participant is obligated to fight for their client to the death and beyond, and carry the fight to the highest court that can be reached. Like any difficult thing, it takes some superior effort to win. |
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That's it, I quit
