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Category Archives: Monday smiles
Monday smiles – Facebook glasses filter reality
Today’s Monday smile comes from a satirical UK website called NewsBiscuit – The news before it happens… run by Net Loss Ltd and is a skit by Ludicity on some ‘avoidant reality’ glasses. Quite chilling really, though, when you think about it…
Monday smiles – Reposed infants and uppermost regions of trees
Here is another in our series of ‘lessons in legalese’ from nursery rhymes…
Monday smiles – Kitty strikes back
Have a good Monday!
Monday smiles – Words of wisdom
One can always rely on Winnie-the-Pooh for wise words. This week I have been at a conference, and I thought you would enjoy this lovely quote that was cited in a presentation by Anne-Lise Kjaer. I’ll be posting a conference report next week. In the meantime, here’s Pooh…
Monday smiles – The inequity of it all
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
Here we are again for another in our occasional series of nursery rhymes (see Roses are Red, and Jack and Jill).
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
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“Peter Piper”
Cross examination by Counsel for the prosecution:
Obviously self-explanatory.
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Credit: from the wonderful book The Legal Guide to Mother Goose, translated by Don Sandburg, published by Price/Stern/Sloan, Los Angeles, 1979
Monday smiles – Branding law firms as chocolate bars
Since in some parts of the world readers will have been munching on chocolate this weekend, I thought you might be interested in this article published by the UK’s Law Society Gazette. It isn’t strictly speaking a Monday smile, because there is a serious side to the article – it discusses the need for law firms to make it easier for clients to differentiate between their services, and the fact that firms are not well known to the general public.
But I just loved… “Berwin Leighton Paisner was compared to Hotel Chocolat as the firm is top of the range“, and “Olswang was a bag of Minstrels due to its expertise in entertainment and Ince & Co was a bag of Mars fun-size – not too demanding, but big enough to have fun.”
Monday smiles – Fax poker
Hope this starts off your week well! 🙂
Monday smiles – Pastagate
Following other recent media frenzies (see here about signage, and this post about bilingual dogs), Quebec’s language watchdog has managed to cause another international rumpus – this time about pasta.
An inspector from the Office quebecois de la langue francaise (OQLF) told Italian restaurant owner Massimo Lecas that he had to replace various terms on his menu, including pasta, calamari, and antipasti, with French equivalents.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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