Footnotes Are An Artform. Even In the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

[liadnan]

(via Unfogged who had it from Matthew Yglesias).

Calling a spade a bike

On the evening of May 29, 2003, Hayden was smoking crack with three other folks at a trailer park home on Chain of Rocks Road in Granite City, Illinois. Murphy, Sr., who had sold drugs to Hayden several years earlier, showed up later that night. He was friendly at first, but he soon called Hayden a snitch bitch hoe [1] and hit her in the head with the back of his hand. He said he saw her name in discovery materials from his son's criminal case and that she was [...]

[1] The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch hoe. A hoe, of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music (perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Hayden s response. We have taken the liberty of changing hoe to ho, a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps You doin ho activities with ho tendencies.

Comments

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

*roflmao*

[fi.livejournal.com]

Hilarious :-)

[dr-lovely.livejournal.com]

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[anarcha.livejournal.com]

*amused*

[alan1957.livejournal.com]

*larfs*

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

heh.

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That is gorgeous. Thank you!