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litigousness
Do not pile maps more than ten high when attempting to change a light bulb. Be sure maps are dry to avoid risk of shock if you are too stupid to disconnect power before changing light bulb.
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"if you are too stupid to disconnect power before changing light bulb."
Dear Faldage: do you really shut off power before changing light bulb?
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shut off power before
Duh! Of course not. I *disconnect it.
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Tort reform? That's when the first tort I make doesn't come out right. So sue me ... 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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And here I thought it was getting the girls off the streets.
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Which reminds me of the day in Torts class in first-year law school, when Professor Harry Kalven was leading a discussion of the principal that certain acts, which would otherwise be improper and tortious, are permissible if done with consent. (For example, punching someone or cutting him with a knife would ordinarily be a tort -- but the former is permitted in a boxing match, and the latter is allowable if you are a surgeon performing surgery.) But as he pointed out, the consent must be an informed one, not a consent given in ignorance or obtained by fraud.
At which point Professor Kalven posed this question: "If you refuse to pay the whore the $25, does it vitiate her prior consent and create a tort?"
To which one student (me) promptly replied, "Professor, where can you find one for $25?"
Brought down the house. Harry and I were great friends from that day to his death.
Note to Jazz-o: this classroom technique should be used only with care!
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To which one student (me) promptly replied, "Professor, where can you find one for $25?"
Harry and I were great friends from that day to his death.
You had clearly done some market research. Your prof. clearly appreciated your preparedness for his class. 
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You had clearly done some market researchHmm. Keiva, tell us more, do!
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Please, dear lady! My analysis was that Harry, being then in his late sixties, had simply failed to adjust his own prior data for inflation.
Of course, at the time the prevalence of amateur participants, with whom I was familiar, doubtless depressed the market price for professionals.
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