I was passed these two permission slips below, and yes I see the humor. As a married man, I’ve run into the gauntlet of requirements at times. But I’m glad to see I’m not alone as evidenced in this form. No I did not create them, and yes I’m sure my wife would kill me if I presented her one of these.
These are from a book called ‘Disorder in the American Courts‘ and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.
ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
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ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn’t it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn’t know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
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ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS: He’s twenty, much like your IQ.
Tags: funny, Humor, joke, jokes, law, lawyers, Legal, Stories
I’ve been writing on this blog for a few years now and never really run into too major of a problem. But today I saw something that surprised me. A friend went to an article I had just written where I had posted the 220 State Parks that Arnold had noted to be closed and he was blocked:
Just so you know I get this when I click on the link:
Trend Micro URL Filter has blocked the requested Web URL by Credibility Level.
URL: http://litwc.com/2009/06/04/a-list-of-220-california-state-parks-possibly-closed/… Read More
Category: Hacking / Proxy Avoidance
Credibility Level: Dangerous
Now in looking I could find no place on their site to try and resolve this easily. So I posted a request through their sales desk:
Hello, my name is Patrick Havens.
I’ve just had a friend notify me that my site was blocked by your Trend Micro URL Filter.
– QUOTE –
Trend Micro URL Filter has blocked the requested Web URL by Credibility Level.URL: http://litwc.com/2009/06/04/a-list-of-220-california-state-parks-possibly-closed/… Read More
Category: Hacking / Proxy Avoidance
Credibility Level: Dangerous
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Considering the fact that domain actually has a secure certificate, and has been in existence for years. Plus the fact that blog has been around for years I’m not sure how the credibility is in question. Plus I’m not sure how it got labeled for Hacking/Proxy Avoidance. I do touch on a number of subjects, but off hand I can’t remember an article related as such. But to be considered “Dangerous”?
Please let me know how I can “safelist” my site.
As you can sorta see I’m at a loss for words per say. I do have the request in, and I hope to see this resolved soon.
Tags: Blocked Blogs, Blocked Sites, Blogging, Censorship, Help, Trend Micro, URL Filtering
For those that say good, cut Education, then they won’t cut my slice of the pie. Well they may of just nibbled on it some.
These are the 220 state parks, state beaches, state recreation areas, museums and state reserves that officials say would be closed under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget cuts:
1. Leo Carrillo State Park.
2. Los Angeles State Historic Park.
3. Los Encinos State Historic Park.
4. Malibu Creek State Park.
5. Malibu Lagoon State Beach.
6. Pio Pico State Historic Park.
7. Point Mugu State Park.
8. Rio de Los Angeles State Park.
9. Robert H. Meyer Memorial State Beach.
10. Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park.
11. Topanga State Park.
12. Verdugo Mountains.
13. Will Rogers State Historic Park.
14. California State Capitol Museum.
15. Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park
16. Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park.
17. Railtown 1897 State Historic Park.
18. State Indian Museum State Historic Park.
19. Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park.
20. Bethany Reservoir State Recreation Area.
21. Calaveras Big Trees State Park.
22. California Mining & Mineral Museum.
23. Caswell Memorial State Park.
24. Columbia State Historic Park.
25. George J. Hatfield State Recreation Area.
26. Great Valley Grasslands State Park.
27. Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park.
28. McConnell State Recreation Area.
29. Carpinteria State Beach.
Tags: Budget, California, Finance, Interesting, News, State Park, Vacation
This tidbit is direct from a reader (remember, you can always pass me gems).
Welcome to Salt & Pepper Diner…
Tags: Audio, comedy, Humor, Salt & Pepper Diner
A northwestern Pennsylvania newspaper is apologizing for running a classified advertisement calling for the assassination of President Barack Obama.
Warren Times Observer Publisher John Elchert says the ad appeared Thursday. It read, “May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy!” The four presidents were all assassinated.
Elchert tells The Associated Press that the newspaper’s advertising staff didn’t make the historical connection.
He says the newspaper turned information over to police and that the Secret Service is investigating the person who placed the ad.
A note in Friday’s paper says the newspaper “apologizes for the oversight.”
[via Philly.com]
I’m currently laughing because editors miss things all the time, yet you know SOMEONE saw the ad, and quite possibly a dozen or more. And the fact no one called down on it either means the staff wasn’t smart enough to recognize the references or that the management has too tight of a control on the editing that people feared noting it. In both cases a Ooops should be soon followed by a report on the arrest or “conversation with” a suspect.
Tags: Advertisement, Assassination, newspaper, Obama, Secret Service
This is more, I had to help my son, and you get the benefits. He was doing a report on Lions, so I did some Googling™ and got some nice looking photos of Lions. All High Res. As for sources, these are all from Wikimedia, Zoos and a few blogs of people who are wandering the world.
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Tags: Interesting, Lion, Lion cubs, Lions, Photographs, photos, Safari, Zoo
ALOHA – For most folks it’s not a dilemma. Given a choice between “a day without sunshine” and a day without jail time, most people will skip the orange juice and stay out of jail.
But Raibin Raof Osman isn’t most people. The 20-year-old Aloha man had a sleep-over at the Washington County Jail on Memorial Day after calling 9-1-1 to complain that McDonald’s left out a box of orange juice from his drive-thru order.
Osman was booked Monday night on accusations of improper use of 9-1-1. He bailed out Tuesday. The offense is a Class B misdemeanor punishable in Oregon by up to six months in jail and a fine of $2,500.
The 9-1-1 call
“We ordered some food,” Osman told dispatchers at 11:41 p.m., calling on his cell phone from the restaurant at 19525 S.W. TV Highway in Aloha.
Osman told dispatchers the drive-thru attendant was laughing at his brother because he could not speak English very well.
“That’s why I called,” he said. “She the employee who waited on him at the drive-thru window was being rude.”
A restaurant employee later called 9-1-1 to report that Osman and others who were with him were blocking the drive-thru lane, knocking on restaurant windows and intimidating employees.
Osman could not be reached for comment.
When sheriff’s deputies arrived at the McDonald’s, Osman was unwilling to listen to deputies explain that 9-1-1 wasn’t in the business of straightening out fast food orders, said Sgt. David Thompson, spokesman for the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
“The deputy basically said, ‘You can’t use 9-1-1 for that reason,’” Thompson explained. “It’s not an emergency. Osman said he didn’t know how to get the non-emergency number. The guy had a Blackberry. He could have dialed 4-1-1 or got it off the Internet. There are payphones all over the parking lot, with phonebooks hanging from them.
“He could have come up with the non-emergency number just like everyone else does.”
Thompson said Osman tried to argue that he had the legal right to call the police.
“He said it was a ‘freedom of speech’ issue,” Thompson said. “He was not open to having the deputy educate him.”
So Osman was taken to jail. His education
[via OregonLive.com]
I swear, I see a ton of these stories, but when i mention them, I get told that no one would be “that stupid.” Just like a little kid calling 9-1-1 to complain about his/her parents grounding them. This kid (yes I noticed his age) will hopefully learn that “call in an emergency” means that ONLY.
I am surprised and shocked to say I have never seen this before. I’ve watched every episode, most many times. And I never knew this tribute to Gene Roddenberry had even existed. So sit back and prepare to “engage.”
Tags: Musical, Patrick Stewart, Picard, Star Trek
