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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 4 1 2 3 4 Your name again? #12428 12/07/00 09:33 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy OP Carpal Tunnel OP of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park 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.. my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Law firm names #12429 12/07/00 11:52 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC 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? TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Law firm names #12430 12/08/00 01:29 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Sorry TEd, gotta go with the latter on this one. My Webster's does have >to grant an academic degree or diploma< as a definition of graduate. We love you anyway though. Every family needs a cantankerous gramps to keep young whippersnappers on their toes. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Law firm names #12431 12/08/00 02:56 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Hmmm. "I graduated from college", but "The college graduated 2500 students this year". "I graduated college" is horrible and actually calls the veracity of the meaning of the statement into question. IMHO ... The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Law firm names #12432 12/08/00 04:39 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta "I graduated from college" sounds OK but even "The college graduated 2500 students this year" sounds a bit dodgy to me. AWAD graduated ??? addicts this year. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Law firm names #12433 12/08/00 08:14 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Bingley opines but even "The college graduated 2500 students this year" sounds a bit dodgy to me. Well I looked it up in COD and you're right. It is dodgy. It's only transitive when you say "It was graduated in degrees Celsius" The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Your name again? #12434 12/08/00 02:08 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Any other favorite (real or imagined) firms, partners or companies? There was a Crookes and Howe in a Mickey Mouse comic strip from. I believe, the 30s Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: graduated #12435 12/08/00 02:53 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass >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> Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Law firm names #12436 12/08/00 03:27 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 B Bobyoungbalt veteran Bobyoungbalt veteran B Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Law firm names #12437 12/08/00 03:37 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass > which held 5 pieces of chalk and which was used to draw a staff on the blackboard I wonder if those things had a name other than five-piece chalk holder, or musical staff liner... 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