HOME!!!!! & lawyer's xmas quiz, kinda!)
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green_amberYes. Really and truly. Embra, that is :)
Oh so glad to be here. Right choice to come home straight home. Went to doctor's am, and as suspected, no point now in antibiotic she says, but had spectacular coughing fit in Cafe Nero - so now retreating to couch with Solpadeine, pomegranate smoothy, crumpet, new Stereolab album and of course, CATS. Happiness :)
There is someting almost quite nice about real illness (or the aftermath anyway) - one of the few times i don't feel bored/impatient/pressurised. just want to get well.
Quite sad to be missing Sheffield festivities on today tho, which is in itself a Good thing - was v relieved to evade any such at Soton last year by being in Thailand!!!!
LOCALS: am now heeeere! Till January!!!!
Is there any interest in seeing (buy 2, get one 3..) Twilight; Day The Earth Stood still; Walking with Bashir (yes, again?). Alternately, give good reasons for never seeing films involving (a) teen vampires (b) Keanu reeves (c) cartoon characters in case they have sex. Do not write on both sides of the page at once..
IN similar vein, a colleague sent me this:
From the jurisprudence reading group, a kinda Xmas quiz: (not just safe for lawyers!)(I don't know most the answers - feel free to supply!)
"Points to ponder:
Who, fatally, is alleged to have said ‘Let him have it, Chris?’
Who shot: JR, JFK, Roger Rabbit, Phil Mitchell? (one of them is, of course, a trick question!: who shot whom?)
There was trouble at t’mill in the C19th. Whose mill? Where? Who resolved it?
‘It was bluebell time in Kent.’ When?
Which leading barrister, married to a well-known novelist, tried to serve as a judge in Freetown? Name the lawyer and his wife.
Which famous English case links a former President of the United States, a plank of wood, Dooley Wilson and a kiss? What was the city? The difficult bit: does the case still represent good law? (whatever that means)."
Oh so glad to be here. Right choice to come home straight home. Went to doctor's am, and as suspected, no point now in antibiotic she says, but had spectacular coughing fit in Cafe Nero - so now retreating to couch with Solpadeine, pomegranate smoothy, crumpet, new Stereolab album and of course, CATS. Happiness :)
There is someting almost quite nice about real illness (or the aftermath anyway) - one of the few times i don't feel bored/impatient/pressurised. just want to get well.
Quite sad to be missing Sheffield festivities on today tho, which is in itself a Good thing - was v relieved to evade any such at Soton last year by being in Thailand!!!!
LOCALS: am now heeeere! Till January!!!!
Is there any interest in seeing (buy 2, get one 3..) Twilight; Day The Earth Stood still; Walking with Bashir (yes, again?). Alternately, give good reasons for never seeing films involving (a) teen vampires (b) Keanu reeves (c) cartoon characters in case they have sex. Do not write on both sides of the page at once..
IN similar vein, a colleague sent me this:
From the jurisprudence reading group, a kinda Xmas quiz: (not just safe for lawyers!)(I don't know most the answers - feel free to supply!)
"Points to ponder:
Who, fatally, is alleged to have said ‘Let him have it, Chris?’
Who shot: JR, JFK, Roger Rabbit, Phil Mitchell? (one of them is, of course, a trick question!: who shot whom?)
There was trouble at t’mill in the C19th. Whose mill? Where? Who resolved it?
‘It was bluebell time in Kent.’ When?
Which leading barrister, married to a well-known novelist, tried to serve as a judge in Freetown? Name the lawyer and his wife.
Which famous English case links a former President of the United States, a plank of wood, Dooley Wilson and a kiss? What was the city? The difficult bit: does the case still represent good law? (whatever that means)."
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Date: 2008-12-13 10:14 am (UTC)I know
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Date: 2008-12-12 04:42 pm (UTC)Derek Bentley I think
The judge is Lord Denning, the case is Hinz v Berry and I can't remember the year (1975 I think). The opening paragraphs of the judgment are worth quoting - the sort of thing said in a gravelly voice would make a great film trailer.
Scott
PS at home - family with lurgy, H recovering reasonably well - and my international podcast debut now available on-line at http://homepage.mac.com/william.gallagher/rss/DVD172.mp3 (UK DVD review). I was suffering with heavy cold and doped up on painkillers when interviewed so please excuse my incoherence!
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Date: 2008-12-12 05:55 pm (UTC)Damn, beat me to it - and the only question I know the answer to.
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Date: 2008-12-12 06:09 pm (UTC)Good programme! Pleased to hear Once and Dr Horrible and Taking Over the Asylum in there too,in fact it was a buyer's guide!
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Date: 2008-12-13 02:02 pm (UTC)I reckon it might be this (certainly don't know off the top of my head) http://www.lep.co.uk/week-ahead-big-interview/Big-Interview--Jimmy-Leigh.4022836.jp
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Date: 2008-12-13 08:39 pm (UTC)Incidentally I am in Embra too on Wed now! Not sure why you're up, but weird as it is (conbsidering we live near each other), ping if you fancy coffee/drink!?
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Date: 2008-12-14 01:01 am (UTC)