Why Do We Bother...

[liadnan]

with Friday afternoons? It's not as though anyone actually does any work on them. Is it? We might as well all just sod off to the pub at lunchtime.

Even the LRB personals failed to lift my boredom this week. Ho hum. Someone amuse me.

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[chiller.livejournal.com]

doetja's writing me up on mysinglefriend.com. I suspect we might all get a good chuckle by the end of the weekend, unless he's terribly serious about it.

[fairymelusine.livejournal.com]

Now, see, the LRB personals are making my lunchtime.

You should just go drink now, sir.

[liadnan]

The chap in the office next to mine has just circulated the customary Friday afternoon email re bottles being opened. I may be some time.

[fairymelusine.livejournal.com]

There you go.

My boss and my officemate's boss are already off for the holiday weekend today - we plan on opening bottles by 4 latest.

Have you seen this before?

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

The economics of cows

SOCIALISM:
You have 2 cows and you give one to your neighbour.

COMMUNISM:
You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM:
You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM:
You have 2 cows. The Government takes both and shoots you.

BUREAUCRATISM:
You have 2 cows; the Government takes both, shoots one, milks the
other and
throws the milk away...

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM:
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow dropped
dead.

A FRENCH CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a
clever cow cartoon image called Cowkimon and market them World-Wide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2
cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION:
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the
numbers.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You worship them.

AN IRISH FARMER:
You have two cows. You claim government subsidies for eight cows.

A BRITISH CORPORATION:
You have two cows. Both are mad.

Re: Have you seen this before?

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

*ROFL*

Re: Have you seen this before?

[dr-lovely.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahahaa.

well, I thought it was funny...

[nikandra.livejournal.com]

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,415753,00.html

Re: well, I thought it was funny...

[dr-lovely.livejournal.com]

It is funny!

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

I *swear* I did not post the one about RPG nerds. Even if the age is right, I am most certainly not divorced.

And anyway, it's only 14 hours a day that he spends on them...

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

The London Review of Books clearly has an - interesting - readership. Well worth a laugh!

Good news underneath the lonely hearts

[(Anonymous)]

Well, they do reveal that the excellent Skoob Books is back open. I may have to stop being so angry at the redevelopers of the Brunswick Centre.

-- Jasper Milvain (jaspermilvain.blogspot.com)

[dr-lovely.livejournal.com]

Actually my friday afternoon was different - I stayed at work until 11pm finishing all my admissions and then had to come back on saturday.

[liadnan]

I was in work part of\Sat and am back now...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hypatia_/]

Not an amusement but would you know off hand if the rules on Amicus Curiae (sp?) are different in England and Scotland? I vaguely thought they were the same (my hazy understanding being that they had to be both volunteer and accepted by both sides). The context is the appointment of expert witnesses and their status - would they be better appointed as Amicus Curiae rather than chosen by 'sides' but I didn't think it was as simple as that. Its not critical, only a drink rests on the answer :^)

[liadnan]

Fraid I have no knowledge whatsoever of Scots procedure. It's the kind of thing where the distinct histories might well make a difference.

Where there is a joint witness there's a case for seeing them as amici curiae. But in practice the single joint witness approach in significant cases doesn't, so far as I can see, have taken a great deal of root. Despite the long standing rule re-emphasised by Woolf that an expert witness' is a witness for the court.