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Articles Tagged with Legal humor
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Super Lawyer, Comic Book Heroine? Meet She-Hulk (cousin of Hulk)
The ABA Journal alerts us to a new comic book heroine who is a lawyer in “real life.” Maybe the comic will be as funny as the article and the Comments:
LAW IN POPULAR CULTURE: Meet She-Hulk, heroine of new comic book series who can bench-press a bus and runs her own law firm,” Feb 11, 2014, by Martha Neil.
Can’t wait to see what the Portland Mercury will do with Hulk’s she-cousin.
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Friday Funny: Justice Bedsworth Offers a Cheap Solution for Underfunded DUII Patrols
“Interactive Urinal Cakes,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth, in the OC Lawyer, December 2013:
Excerpts (footnotes omitted, but always worth reading):
‘Yep, that’s what it says. Interactive urinal cakes…. Apparently, someone noticed that a man who has had too much to drink may be unsteady on his feet. This might cause his stream into the urinal to waver, thereby betraying his inebriation. Inability to keep the urinal stream aimed correctly is probably directly proportional to inability to keep an automobile aimed correctly.
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Laughter is the Best Educator: How to Bust a Move & Please Don’t Swivel
Two Gems of the week:
1) This “Dressing for TV” advice list is useful and hilarious. You will never watch people on the screen the same way again.
2) Ask the Past: Advice from Old Books (Hat tip to Rare Book Room blog for the link to Ask the Past and How to Bust a Move)
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A U.S. College Campus Free Speech Story Worthy of a Entry in “News of the Weird”?
Above the Law brings us the following news story worthy of News of the Weird.
California College Tells Student He Can’t Hand Out Copies Of The Constitution On Constitution Day,” which links to a story from FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education): “California College Forbids Passing Out Constitutions…On Constitution Day.”
How can one not love News of the Weird, which I usually catch up on through my Funny Times subscription? (You can also check out the News of the Weird Archive.)
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Proposed Equal Rights Amendment: 90 Years-old in 2013
An Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was proposed in 1923:
“Freedom from legal sex discrimination, Alice Paul believed, required an Equal Rights Amendment that affirmed the equal application of the Constitution to all citizens. In 1923, in Seneca Falls for the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the 1848 Woman’s Rights Convention, she introduced the “Lucretia Mott Amendment,” which read: “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.” The amendment was introduced in every session of Congress until it passed in reworded form in 1972….” [Link to more from ERA History at Equal Rights Amendment dot org.]
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Judicial Humor and the Fickle Finger of the Law
Gallagher blogs about the Middle Finger Controversy and you can also link to their Judicial Humor guide.
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Good News / Bad News: All 100 Senators on Twitter
FGI (Free Government Information) posted this on 1/24/13:
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Justice Bedsworth and Deputy Dawg
If you need a laugh from the bench of the funniest judge in California (I can’t speak for the rest of the country – in fact I can’t even really speak for California – ahem), read OC Lawyer Magazine columnist, Justice Bedsworth (yes, he’s a real judge!), in his December 2012 column, “Dog Days in New Mexico”
Not many judges can get Strindberg, Vaughn, New Mexico, and dog Nikka, the only state certified “police officer” in town in the same paragraph. But Justice Bedworth can.
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Justice Bedsworth Tackles Time, Tontines, and Tootsie Landsill
Spare a moment for Justice Bedsworth’s “A Criminal Waste of Space” column in the Orange County Bar Association’s monthly OCLawyer.
It will be worth it: