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Some structural engineers are going to earn their pay…


Chump change compared to what the phalanx of lawyers who handle the litigation generated by this will earn. In the end, several more bankruptcy lawyers will pick over the bones.
Not a fan of that kind of music, but I found Bob Seger much better in the working class hero genre. He didn’t have the “New York” advantage Slicksteen had.
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European swallows are too small to carry a coconut…


You are of course, correct. I just wanted to see if anyone was paying attention. The operative word in my post for this thread is the “NUTS” part.
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Look up the word “patsy”.


Squire to Arthur, King of the Britons. Operator of cocoNUTS, brought to these isles by non-migratory European swallows.
Speaking of donkeys. Don’t forget about Benjamin the Donkey in Animal Farm. The donkey is one who can read as good as the pigs, but did nothing. He’s the one at the end who has to read the final version of the 7 Commandments: “All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.”
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I will say that the New Orleans DA Williams was smart to recuse himself…


If so, it’ll be the only smart thing he’s ever done. Like saying you are smart because you did not stick the butter knife in the toaster.
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…nunc pro tunc…


I have not seen that Latin phrase in a legal pleading, order, etc in a long time.
My ancestor signed the Declaration of Independence . My wife’s was a framer of the Constitution.
Fiction: Animal Farm
Moby Dick
The Brothers Karamazov
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
David Copperfield

Nonfiction: The Gulag Archipelago
1776
John Adams
Mornings on Horseback
Truman
Lincoln
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…coroners office…


Maybe, but I don’t think the outgoing coroner could take $$$ and the furniture with him. It was cleaned up about 20 years ago (I think). It may have been the constable’s office.
What was that quasi judicial sinecure in New Orleans governmental structure where the officeholder got to keep a portion of the revenues and could even make off with the office furniture and equipment at the end of his term?
Unfortunately, I think that’s somewhere in Florida.
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…never uttered a sound…


Saw it on TV in the ‘60s in college. Stayed with me for a long time. Certainly, after I got to Vietnam, it gave me pause regarding Asians. The flames start your nerve endings relaying extraordinary pain signals from everywhere in your body even while your’re losing consciousness. It doesn’t stop. Then your lungs are seared breathing and the alveoli in the lungs broil and burst. It’s a mess. Sorry for the graphic description.

re: Talarico tied with Paxton?

Posted by beachdude on 7/1/26 at 8:19 pm to
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Rural Texans opposed to data centers…will vote for Talarico.


Yep. Sure thing. I can see those folks in Childress lining up to vote Democrat all day long.
Don’t run a cleaning rod down the barrel of an M60 if there’s one in the chamber.

re: Cuba

Posted by beachdude on 6/29/26 at 3:28 pm to
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Like Caribbean islands? I’d love to have Bermuda…


I would too. However, Bermuda is not in the Caribbean.

re: USSC Sides With E Jean Carroll

Posted by beachdude on 6/29/26 at 1:19 pm to
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Nice tits though.


This will be the last bleat of the horn I’ve been leaning on about this case for a couple of years. E. Jean Carroll makes things up. (Read her bio of Hunter Thompson.) She probably lied both in depositions and in her courtroom testimony. However, Trump’s lawyer dropped the ball. Carroll’s testimony was corroborated by the testimony of two friends to whom Carroll related the events contemporaneous with their occurrence. There was no contradictory evidence introduced at trial by the defense counsel other than calling Carroll names. Proof in this civil matter was by a preponderance of the evidence, not beyond a reasonable doubt as in a criminal trial. The jury had nothing favorable to the defense to review in its deliberations as Abba did not put on a proper defense. Trump should have sued her for legal malpractice.
“What if Eleanor Roosevelt could fly?” Python, Monty.

re: I think I could fix her

Posted by beachdude on 6/27/26 at 4:14 pm to
Guess what? Not her first rodeo. In 2022 she pled nolo contendere to disorderly conduct. Partying and making loud noise at her apartment neighbors complain. Police arrive, she treats them like a nuisance and tells them her father is the police chief of North Ridgefield (OH). Cops tell he to be quiet and leave. Shortly thereafter they respond again to another, separate complaint and again she acts the fool. Off you go. No jail time, but got fined. Not fixable. To the other lawyers on here that think that the judge was out of line for locking her up for 7 days, maybe he knew something we didn’t.

re: Patio Lounge

Posted by beachdude on 6/26/26 at 11:10 pm to
Jim was from Boston and sounded like it. The popular song on the jukebox was “She Ran off with [a person who annoys you].” Some of the dumbest people I ever encountered went there. As did some of the smartest. Weird, weird place.