Gettting into conference mood now, here’s a Monday smile about risk. 😊
Registration for the conference closes this week, so this is fair warning if anyone hasn’t registered yet!
We’ll have plenty of risks to talk about at the conference – as shown below… 😉
The archives of the Old Bailey, London’s criminal court, hold the following introductory clause which is THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHT-NINE words long. 😊 All it does is introduce the judges and jurors.
The case is the trial of Francis Henry de la Motte, charged with high treason, and dates from 1781. Drafting lawyers have not all learnt their lesson about succinctness since then… 😉 Continue reading
Québec has been the setting for a bovine ‘Great Escape’ since July this year, when a couple of dozen cows broke free and have only just (!) been caught.
First, some cowboys were called in to round them up, but the cows outwitted them and hid in a field of corn. Continue reading
Some readers will be preparing to celebrate Christmas, or to have a break, so I thought it surely must be time for *those* smiles again. 😊
Hope this starts your week off in fun! Continue reading
You travel into the future to visit a law firm in the year 2384. What is the most remarkable thing you see?
(By the way, the illustration is a cartoon dating from 1922: “Cheer up! Let’s look forward to 2022”.) Continue reading
As a postlude* to last week’s Monday smile, I offer you the Reno Cooperative Housing Bulletin of 2012. The year is relevant.
“2012 end of the World: Is your co-op legally prepared? Continue reading
This week, I came across a scarcely credible clause in the terms of a service of the contentious corporation Amazon. Reported in 2016 on Spiceworks, it is, amazingly, still online. In fact, according to the webpage, it was updated 6 days ago!
Lumberyard, by the way, is apparently a freeware cross-platform game engine.
So here we go, the Service Terms of Amazon Web Services:
This week Twitter served up a delightful error from 2016:
My British publisher replaced pants with trousers and the book WENT TO PRINT with the word occutrousers.
Which brought to mind this similar gem: Continue reading
A French smile today…
Poète et dramaturge illustre de la Restauration, admiré par Victor Hugo, Alexandre Soumet disait de son gendre Beuvain d’Altenheim, linguiste reputé et peu loquace : Continue reading
To start your week off with a little cheer…
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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