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Post by funkyodar on Feb 16, 2016 17:56:29 GMT -5
That's nothing. Gary was telling me the other day about a comp claim he filed back in the day due to a rock shard hitting him in the eye.
Somewhere between chiseling the sixth and seventh commandment, IIRC.
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Post by gary on Feb 16, 2016 18:00:40 GMT -5
That's nothing. Gary was telling me the other day about a comp claim he filed back in the day due to a rock shard hitting him in the eye. Somewhere between chiseling the sixth and seventh commandment, IIRC. Don't believe a word of this scurrilous libel. If you must know, I was injured inscribing the Rosetta Stone.
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Post by ba on Feb 16, 2016 19:55:40 GMT -5
That's nothing. Gary was telling me the other day about a comp claim he filed back in the day due to a rock shard hitting him in the eye. Somewhere between chiseling the sixth and seventh commandment, IIRC. Sixth and Seventh commandments? Are those the ones about counsel and jury trials?
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Post by pumpkin on Feb 16, 2016 20:33:42 GMT -5
Do you remember IBM Selectric typewriters and dictaphones? I do. During my mis-spent youth, I once asked for an IBM Selectric type ball with italic font for my birthday. I received it, and thought I was the coolest person around when I typed Christmas card envelopes with the italic font. My appreciation for unnecessary office supplies lives on.
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Post by Gaidin on Feb 16, 2016 21:01:37 GMT -5
Do you remember IBM Selectric typewriters and dictaphones? I do. During my mis-spent youth, I once asked for an IBM Selectric type ball with italic font for my birthday. I received it, and thought I was the coolest person around when I typed Christmas card envelopes with the italic font. My appreciation for unnecessary office supplies lives on. Mrs. G enjoys a trip to Staples like I enjoy a trip to Lowes. No one should like Post-Its that much.
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Post by gary on Feb 16, 2016 21:06:47 GMT -5
During my mis-spent youth, I once asked for an IBM Selectric type ball with italic font for my birthday. I received it, and thought I was the coolest person around when I typed Christmas card envelopes with the italic font. My appreciation for unnecessary office supplies lives on. Mrs. G enjoys a trip to Staples like I enjoy a trip to Lowes. No one should like Post-Its that much. She'd probably have liked the ones I was once given that were shaped like feet.
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Post by mamaru on Feb 17, 2016 0:22:20 GMT -5
It used to cost $2 per page to fax - I can remember the manager of office services checking in to confirm if we really needed to fax things. AND we had a WATS line, plus a computer program that allowed us to convert to the regular rates to charge the clients extra for long distance calls. The WATS line was never available on Mondays during football season because the attorneys were too busy contacting teams to confirm line-ups for next week's fantasy football. I also remember the bicycle messengers in the lobby at 4:45 to race stuff over to the courthouse before the clerk's office closed at 5 - before electronic filing the streets and sidewalks by the courthouse were dangerous right before 5. I now feel like a dino. Do you remember IBM Selectric typewriters and dictaphones? I do. We had to dictate everything when I started practicing and, when desktop computers became available, we were offered the opportunity to buy our own so that we could do our own drafting. Really, buy our own office computer? Nobody did and within a couple of years the firm broke down and bought them for us. And pretty much fired the "word processors." Those were people, not machines.
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Post by mamaru on Feb 17, 2016 0:28:21 GMT -5
Although it was not a law office, when I first got out of the army, there were no copy machines. Secretaries, who could take dictation, used carbon paper to produce more than one copy. Okay, that tops me. We did have copiers (two per floor for a total of 10 plus two in the copy room that could do massive copy jobs) and we had the Xerox man who was an honorary office member - he never actually left during office hours, even though he worked for Xerox. He got a birthday party and Christmas gift. If you played your cards right he would teach you basic maintenance so you could troubleshoot the machine yourself after hours and on weekends.
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Post by mamaru on Feb 17, 2016 0:31:49 GMT -5
During my mis-spent youth, I once asked for an IBM Selectric type ball with italic font for my birthday. I received it, and thought I was the coolest person around when I typed Christmas card envelopes with the italic font. My appreciation for unnecessary office supplies lives on. Mrs. G enjoys a trip to Staples like I enjoy a trip to Lowes. No one should like Post-Its that much. I am partial to their fancy paper clips. My favorites are the stars, the hearts, and the treble clefs. It's the little things like nice post-its, pretty paper clips, gel pens, and cool erasers that add to the quality of life.
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Post by pumpkin on Feb 17, 2016 8:02:58 GMT -5
I am enamored of Post-It notes and smile every time I find a new color or design that I don't yet have in my collection. Post-Its with lines for neat printing? Brilliance. Many thanks to Romy and Michelle for making it all happen.
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Post by moopigsdad on Feb 17, 2016 8:29:37 GMT -5
The first law firm I worked at still had an old-fashioned switchboard that the receptionist used to forward calls to attorneys. I thought I had stepped back into the early 1900's when I first started to work there. It was about six months later the firm finally removed it and went to an semi-automated phone system. Boy, those were the days.......
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Post by bartleby on Feb 17, 2016 8:39:15 GMT -5
Justice Scalia has died. Our country will forever change depending on who fills his seat. With that said, I am amazed at the number of liberals we have on the Board, newbies and sitting ALJ's. God save us all. And may God give Justice Scalia a good debating partner in Heaven.
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Post by christina on Feb 17, 2016 9:54:15 GMT -5
Scalia is probably already debating Churchill or someone along those lines.
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Post by privateatty on Feb 17, 2016 16:56:06 GMT -5
During my mis-spent youth, I once asked for an IBM Selectric type ball with italic font for my birthday. I received it, and thought I was the coolest person around when I typed Christmas card envelopes with the italic font. My appreciation for unnecessary office supplies lives on. Mrs. G enjoys a trip to Staples like I enjoy a trip to Lowes. No one should like Post-Its that much. The only concern I have for you is whether you are on the receiving end. Honey do lists punctuated by a post it or 12 can be troublesome, to say the least. But what do I know?
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Post by Gaidin on Feb 17, 2016 17:18:58 GMT -5
Mrs. G enjoys a trip to Staples like I enjoy a trip to Lowes. No one should like Post-Its that much. The only concern I have for you is whether you are on the receiving end. Honey do lists punctuated by a post it or 12 can be troublesome, to say the least. But what do I know? Man I love going to Lowes and a big honey do list usually means I can justify buying new tools.
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Post by cafeta on Feb 17, 2016 20:36:44 GMT -5
For a nice Scalia story, check out the Late Night, or whatever it's called, the Steven Colbert show is more accurate. I think it was the broadcast from Tuesday, 1/16, but 1/15 is also a possibility. Before the first guest, Colbert tells a great story about his last presentation at the Press Club and an interaction with Scalia that makes him more human than I had envisioned. Ok am one of those populating this board Bartleby ( ). Regardless, you cannot deny he was awesome, awesomely awesome or awesomely bad, he was definitely awesome! RIP.
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Post by anotherfed on Feb 17, 2016 21:59:17 GMT -5
During my mis-spent youth, I once asked for an IBM Selectric type ball with italic font for my birthday. I received it, and thought I was the coolest person around when I typed Christmas card envelopes with the italic font. My appreciation for unnecessary office supplies lives on. Mrs. G enjoys a trip to Staples like I enjoy a trip to Lowes. No one should like Post-Its that much. But of course. If there's anything better than making a list, it's making a list that you can stick ... Anywhere. Post-Its are wonderful things.
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Post by hapi2balj on Feb 17, 2016 23:32:12 GMT -5
One of my favorite Scalia observations goes something like this: "We'd catch a lot more crooks if it wasn't for the Fourth Amendment." To be clear, this statement was a wry defense of the protection against search & seizure, not a criticism.
And, I love Lowe's AND Staples.
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Post by ba on Feb 18, 2016 5:02:18 GMT -5
One of my favorite Scalia observations goes something like this: "We'd catch a lot more crooks if it wasn't for the Fourth Amendment." To be clear, this statement was a wry defense of the protection against search & seizure, not a criticism. And, I love Lowe's AND Staples. I remember his statement at oral argument, "Counsel, there are a lot of restrictions on law enforcement, but the one thing they have going for them is that criminals are dumb." Classic.
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Post by christina on Feb 18, 2016 6:00:50 GMT -5
One of my favorite Scalia observations goes something like this: "We'd catch a lot more crooks if it wasn't for the Fourth Amendment." To be clear, this statement was a wry defense of the protection against search & seizure, not a criticism. And, I love Lowe's AND Staples. I remember his statement at oral argument, "Counsel, there are a lot of restrictions on law enforcement, but the one thing they have going for them is that criminals are dumb." Classic. coming from a family with many in law enforcement, LOL!!! one of my uncles always shared some kind of annual review he got through email of particularly dumb criminal acts that made the coveted(or i guess the not so coveted for the defendant) list!!! and he always kept us up to date, ahem, of any other stories he learned of and had an arsenal of his own war stories to make for plenty of family laughter!
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