We go to the New Zealand legal archives today for some judicial wit involving a music festival and a duck pond…
Category Archives: Monday smiles
Monday smile – Sniffing out sausages
Hot on the heels of my post about Gigi the sniffer cat at the French gendarmerie comes news from the UK that its team of detection dogs have failed to meet their targets.
Monday smile – A rose by any other name
A very wry Monday smile today, involving employment disputes – not at all funny for the employees concerned.
But let’s start with a little Shakespeare…
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.”
But not in these cases…
Monday smile – Moose hunting by hovercraft
Just in case you have ever considered hunting moose by hovercraft…
Monday smile – French gendarmerie’s feline brigade
Last Friday brought with it quite a few funny hoaxes, but I think this one is actually worth implementing…
Monday smile – Le chocolat et l’histoire
Edifying chocolate? Healthy chocolate? Historical chocolate?
In Paris… of course! 😉
Monday smile – The Pomodoro Technique
Today’s post is fun and certainly ludique, but I hope it may also be useful to some readers.
The Pomodoro Technique is a way to manage time, developed by the Italian Francesco Cirillo in the 1980s – it took me a while to find out about it ;-).
Monday smile – Contracts and confectionery
A little dose of urban myth today – about a much-discussed rider to contracts involving the pop group Van Halen, requiring there to be “no brown M&Ms” in the confectionery set out for the musicians when they were playing a gig.
Monday smile – Shakespeare and the law
Rather a ‘cultural’ Monday smile today… Continue reading
Monday smile – Leap year law
As today is very special sort of Monday, I did a bit of hunting and found a lovely piece of clear writing for you 😉 …
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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