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[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Related news: I was at a restaurant Monday that had a whiskey list without prices. I asked for “the oldest Pappy you have.”

Suddenly I was given an elaborate serving glass and set up. Mmm good. Then I got the bill.

Moral: do not order Pappy w/o knowing the price.

Look at it this way, that glass of bourbon probably cost the same as, what, an hour of your time?

I suspect it was worth it.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Look at it this way, that glass of bourbon probably cost the same as, what, an hour of your time?

I suspect it was worth it.

Half hour, so yeah it was worth it.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

It sounds like what the board needs is a little pick-me-up. Here is a non-exhaustive list of things Sebastian was wrong about, in descending order of egregiousness:

1. The spelling of Lil Jon’s name
2. They’ll never overturn Roe
3. No horns in rock - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To7q0cn0Fk4&t=11s
4. A president inciting a violent mob to storm the Capitol in order to prevent the certification of a fair election, and to hang those perceived as traitors, including his own vice president, was not a “threat to democracy”
5. That goldfish only have three second memories
6. That the cascading arpeggios of Coldplay’s Clocks somehow redeemed the song and made it transcend the banality of the Coldplay oeuvre
7. That P.J. O’Rourke was the next Hunter S. Thompson
8. The spelling of Hunter S. Thompson’s lawyer’s name

One of my favorite lines ever in a music review: "Personally, I assume this song, like every Coldplay song ever recorded, is about selecting and purchasing patio furniture."


A friend of mine when I passed the review along: "It was all yellow..."
Story checks out.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Remember the good old days when Sebby ranted about lawyers wearing plain white dress shirts with suits?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Remember the good old days when Sebby ranted about lawyers wearing plain white dress shirts with suits?

Don’t get him started on the merits of spread collars!

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

One of my favorite lines ever in a music review: "Personally, I assume this song, like every Coldplay song ever recorded, is about selecting and purchasing patio furniture."


A friend of mine when I passed the review along: "It was all yellow..."
Story checks out.

Haha. True! Then again, Coldplay made about a gazillion dollars making songs about selecting and purchasing patio furniture. So, there’s that ….

[Hank Chinaski]

So people (GGG elsewhere) are saying the Court has accepted a case that could over rule Griswold. But when I search for it I do not find anything. Help?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Don’t get him started on the merits of spread collars!

I've been in one court room since covid. Everything else has been over the phone or Zoom. I'm guessing billable hours have to be down for litigators because of this?

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I've been in one court room since covid. Everything else has been over the phone or Zoom. I'm guessing billable hours have to be down for litigators because of this?

They are as shitty as they were before. Glad I got all those custom suits when I visited Bangkok in 2019.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

They are as shitty as they were before. Glad I got all those custom suits when I visited Bangkok in 2019.

Billable hours will be the same, but my clients (insurance companies) got a windfall in not have to pay for travel to every bullshit status conference and Custodian of Records deposition.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

So people (GGG elsewhere) are saying the Court has accepted a case that could over rule Griswold. But when I search for it I do not find anything. Help?

Pretty sure this Court doesn't need to accept a case. They can just issue a ruling sue sponte.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Pretty sure this Court doesn't need to accept a case. They can just issue a ruling sue sponte.

Did you see this in Justice Kagan's majority decision in an otherwise boring Supreme Court decision (Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt) last Wednesday?

. . . Helix did not raise that argument in the courts below. Following our usual practice, we therefore decline to address its merits. See, e.g., Kingdomware Technologies, Inc. v. United States, 579 U. S. 162, 173 (2016); see post, at 2 (GORSUCH, J., dissenting) (agreeing that Helix "failed to raise" the argument, and also declining to express a view of its merits); but cf. post, at 4–5 (KAVANAUGH, J., dissenting) (recognizing that the argument may be forfeited, but opining on it anyway).

Ha!

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Billable hours will be the same, but my clients (insurance companies) got a windfall in not have to pay for travel to every bullshit status conference and Custodian of Records deposition.

From 50 flights a year to two, and that's fine with me. Doing a Teams conference at 10:00 AM for Buffalo cases from your home office sure as shit beats traveling a day and a half to say "Everything is on schedule, your honor."

But of course one judge insists on in-person conferences because then you HAVE to listen to em talk about emself.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Did you see this in Justice Kagan's majority decision in an otherwise boring Supreme Court decision (Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt) last Wednesday?

Ha!

I have had some interactions with her, and she is just awesome.

[Replaced_Texan]

We lost PLF. I imagine the cause, though I thought he was doing well.

His wife posted on Instagram.

I’m really gutted.

ETA: The obituary said it was a cardiac event while skiing on Saturday, his last fuck you to cancer.