tsuwsm had his lawyers post notice--the famous partners Payne and Durance Attorneys at Lawm
my favorite law firm, is Dewey, Chetham and Howe, but Takham, Mooney and Ruhn also have a place in my heart. Any other favorite (real or imagined) firms, partners or companies?
has any one out there seen the new mix available for making a baba au rum at home? --Druncan Hines is offering it..
I have a friend who graduated from Duke Law School. She swears that there were three callow fellows in school with her who were trying to find a particular person so they could form the law firm Finder, Binder, Raper, and Lever.
And this brings up another one of my pet peeves. I think I have an almost infinite number of them. People who say "I graduated college." I always have this image of a person drawing equally spaced lines up the side of the building. Or am I just an old fuddy duddy?
>It's only transitive when you say "It was graduated in degrees Celsius"
that's the *third sense for the transitive in W3: 1) to grant an academic degree... <expect to graduate 3000 this year> 2) to qualify as proficient or learned <he was graduated in mathematics>
I graduated college. Calloo, callay, O frabjous day! At last, I have found someone else who knows the meaning of the verb graduate. I also, on hearing the quoted statement, have had this mental picture of drawing neatly spaced lines on a college building (like the school which talks to Sally in Peanuts) with one of those strange wire things which looked like a large fan, which held 5 pieces of chalk and which was used to draw a staff on the blackboard in music class. Wonder if there are any of those things left in the world? There are certainly very few music lessons in public schools.
5 pieces of chalk and which was used to draw a staff on the blackboard in music class. Wonder if there are any of those things left in the world?
i don't know the name, but i certainly can say that they are still used in public schools. at least they were 5 years ago when i was last in a public highschool.
I've never seen one. We used to have special blackboards (are we allowed to say blackboards these days?) in the music department with the lines permanently drawn on them. I don't remember doing music anywhere other that the music department, so I don't suppose that we needed one. The music department was, by necessity, on the outer edges of the school campus, particularly useful for those of us who made rather unpleasant noises with stringed instruments.
It sounds like an interesting invention, although everything musical seems to be done with overhead projectors and photocopied sheets in the schools that my children have attended.
A few years ago, we had a game going in the local bar rag which combined names of members into law firms. The only rule was that the names had to be names of actual people practicing in the county. Here are some of them:
Chrysler, Ford, Nash & Carr Flood, Waters, Brooks & Poole Rainey, Day Moore & Moore Snow & Frost Roy, Rogers Browning, Boyle, Fry & Birn Lawless, Hood, Crooks & Mol Lick, Sweet, Canady, Kane Betz & Owen Parrish, Church, Bell, Bishop, Angell, Neal & Grace Loose, Seaman, Fell, Downs Piggish, Hoag & Ham So, Long Short, Sheets Cheetham & Howe Marshall, Dillon Banks, Bond, Economy, Price & Profit Field, Meadows & Parks Webb, Wing, Waddell & Kluck Silver, Bell & Holaday Maki, Long, Storey, Short
A slightly different name joke. My wife's obstetrician was named Mabel C. Hiscock. Actually, the ending of that name had nothing to do with anatomy. It is a diminutive. Originally the name meant "Little John". Remember the nursery rhyme "Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross, To see a fine Lady upon a fine horse...."
I remember actually using that "5 chalk" thing in school. (Back in the days when we clapped erasers to clean them and when it was an honor to stay after school and clean the blackboard for your favorite teacher.)
Twenty years ago or so, I went into a gullectible store named Annie Teaks & Uncle Junques.
On a bit more morbid note, a friend of mine used to hang out with a buddy whose dad owned a mortuary. Sometimes after closing hours when the phone would ring he would answer it with ".... Funeral Home, You stab 'em - We'll slab 'em. ooops, Sorry! This was supposed to go under the Jobs thread.
I have spent the last two days trying to read all the postings and links...I don't think I'll ever catch up, but it's been fun. I am an addict of your humour. I've already been concerned about this upcoming weekend. Whatever will I do for two whole days without awadtalk. I just might have to get the net at the house.
that was a *very* popular way to answer the phone when i was a kid, along with "[Family name]'s Mortuary.. you kill 'em, we chill 'em"
They ranked right up there with the delights of calling a random house and asking if their refrigerator was running (..well you'd better go catch it}, calling a delicatesson and asking if they have pig's feet [or chicken legs] (*wow*, don't you find it terribly hard to walk??)
then of course there was the old favorite of having a group of your friends call the same random number all day long, asking for "Mike" (this didn't work if you happened upon a household with a member named 'mike', though it never occured to us to use a less common name), then at the end of the day calling the same number, introducing yourself as Mike and asking if you'd missed any calls.
Now with the development of Caller ID our unfortunate children will have to find other ways to channel their energies.
anyone else have some juvenile phone goodies to share??? hmm... something tells me you people didn't do that sort of thing...
that was a *very* popular way to answer the phone when i was a kid, along with "[Family name]'s Mortuary.. you kill 'em, we chill 'em"
An ex-airforce friend of mine was fond of answering his phone "Underground Airways", or "Fiji Railways". The latter was an in joke from his time stationed in Fiji, a country without railways. I still use "Underground Airways" quite often, just to see how much attentioon people pay to telephone salutations.
But wasn't Dr. Jekyll a model physician until he turned himself into Mr. Hyde by meddling with mind altering drugs? Too bad his example did not discourage such experimentation without controls.
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