Judge goes off on one...

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... and a hearing anticipated to be a five minute in and out job turns into an hour and a half, with three counsel (all of whom were in agreement) being shouted at for the status of papers in a case they'd all received (in place of more senior people whose attendance was thought to be an unwarranted expense for such a hearing) the day before.

Oh well.

Two small snippets from this week's Private Eye that amused me:

In a world of "dogging", "piking" and other exotic modern practices, it can be tricky for hacks to keep up with the latest street-slang. Last week, however, consensus was reached on the Street of Shame on how to deal with the Kevin Spacey mugging story. The Independent, Times, Mirror and Daily Mail all described the actor not as a friend of Dorothy but "a friend of Peter Mandelson."

(I can't imagine what they might possibly be insinuating about Spacey, and the story...).

and a reference to the critics "quote" on the posters for the stage version of When Harry met Sally starring Alyson Hannigan and Luke Perry.

As quoted on the posters, the line is "Fans of Hannigan and Perry will be ecstatic", and I confess that, seeing them as I come up the escalators at Holborn every morning, the cynic in me had briefly wondered about the context of that. Well, apparently, the rest of the sentence, in a Time Out review, was "...their companions will just have to fake an interest", with added comments that "it is a long and tedious play" and "halfway through I began to wish that Harry and Sally had never met."

(While I haven't seen the play, I can't really see that the film is a natural candidate for a transfer to stage.)

Oh, and Patrick Nielsen Hayden unfavourably compares the analysis of Andrew Sullivan on Iraq to that of the Fafblog.. Read it and weep.

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