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Category Archives: Monday smiles

Monday smiles – Facebook glasses filter reality

May 13, 2013

Today’s Monday smile comes from a satirical UK website called NewsBiscuit – The news before it happens… run by Net Loss Ltd …

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Monday smiles – Reposed infants and uppermost regions of trees

May 6, 2013

Here is another in our series of ‘lessons in legalese’ from nursery rhymes…

Monday smiles – Kitty strikes back

April 29, 2013

Have a good Monday!

Monday smiles – Words of wisdom

April 22, 2013

One can always rely on Winnie-the-Pooh for wise words. This week I have been at a conference, and I thought …

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Monday smiles – The inequity of it all

April 15, 2013

Top of the morning to you all (or afternoon/evening in some time zones!). I hope you like today’s cartoon…

Monday smiles – Peter Piper

April 8, 2013

Here we are again for another in our occasional series of nursery rhymes (see Roses are Red, and Jack and …

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Monday smiles – Branding law firms as chocolate bars

April 1, 2013

Since in some parts of the world readers will have been munching on chocolate this weekend, I thought you might …

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Monday smiles – Fax poker

March 25, 2013

Hope this starts off your week well!

Monday smiles – Pastagate

March 18, 2013

Following other recent media frenzies (see here about signage, and this post about bilingual dogs), Quebec’s language watchdog has managed …

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Monday smiles – Naming laws in Iceland

March 11, 2013

Today I welcome a tongue-in-cheek guest post from Kevin Underhill, of the great legal humor blog Lowering the Bar that I posted …

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