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• #1   DLo

  Yeah, now the guy’s going to file suit because he was called a silly sausage. Hostile work environment doncha know?

  Feb 27, 2011 at 8:29 pm   rating: 7  
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  • #1.1   pit pat

    In England? Not so sure.

    Feb 27, 2011 at 8:47 pm   rating: 10  
     

  • #1.2   mugabo

    smiley face at the bottom (!) of the message fixes it all, dontcha think?

    Feb 28, 2011 at 2:03 am   rating: 22  
     

  • #1.3   divaandwriter

    Hmmm. Somebody was getting entertainment out of this temp’s internet traffic!

    Feb 28, 2011 at 9:58 am   rating: 2  
     

  • #1.4   Izzie

    I’ve noticed we don’t tend to sue each other as much over here as in the US.
    But he IS a silly sausage, so his employment tribunal would probably get thrown out anyway.

    Mar 3, 2011 at 12:51 pm   rating: 3  
     
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• #2   pony girl

  I don’t think that was an admonishment, I think that was flirting.

  How else to explain the silly sausage remark?

  Feb 27, 2011 at 8:32 pm   rating: 36  
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  • #2.1   Lauren--NY

    Condescending. Also, LOL.

    Mar 1, 2011 at 12:44 am   rating: 1  
     
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• #3   bec

  I wish all PAN notes contained “You silly sausage, you”

  Dear Muammar Gaddafi, You silly sausage………

  Feb 27, 2011 at 8:36 pm   rating: 75  
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• #4   Turd ferguson

  That sausage was f*cking delic…oh no…

  Feb 27, 2011 at 8:36 pm   rating: 17  
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• #5   Kay

  How did she know his sausage was silly?

  Feb 27, 2011 at 8:37 pm   rating: 2  
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  • #5.1   Smiley4099

    From monitoring his emails.

    Feb 27, 2011 at 9:14 pm   rating: 32  
     

  • #5.2   mugabo

    What makes you think that Joanne’s boss is female?

    Feb 28, 2011 at 2:22 am   rating: 2  
     

  • #5.3   Doug.E.Fresh

    I don’t think any self-respecting guy would call another a “silly sausage.”

    Although this is England…

    Feb 28, 2011 at 7:39 am   rating: 4  
     

  • #5.4   Russian

    Actually, it’s very British self-deprecating irony. Nobody would seriously mean it, but I could totally see it from a slightly camp older man.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 3:58 pm   rating: 14  
     

  • #5.5   park rose

    How did she know his sausage was silly? It was easy. He was the wurst kind of brat.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 10:38 pm   rating: 20  
     

  • #5.6   Canthz_B

    Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it, rose.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 10:49 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #5.7   FeRD

    Ohhh jebus, please don’t make me liver through another pun thread!

    Mar 1, 2011 at 11:50 pm   rating: 6  
     

  • #5.8   Canthz_B

    Now we’re about to go out on a Limburger, and that just stinks.

    Mar 2, 2011 at 12:03 am   rating: 7  
     
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• #6   spassgrl

  It’s the “YOU SILLY SAUSAGE, YOU” that really cracked me up. I guess he does have a silly sausage, eh?

  Feb 27, 2011 at 8:47 pm   rating: 8  
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  • #6.1   Rhamza

    it’s because not only do they have monitors on the web browsing, they also have web cams to see that the workers are actually working and not…playing.

    Feb 27, 2011 at 9:23 pm   rating: 5  
     
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• #7   coco

  YOU: Big tits, slutty, Asain, likes long walks on the beach.

  ME: Silly sausage, totally unaware, turned on by Asains, likes long walks on the beach.

  Let’s make a baby.

  Feb 27, 2011 at 9:24 pm   rating: 35  
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• #8   JetJackson

  Silly sausage indeed! He needs to be educated in poltical correctness… for example, the politically correct terms are;

  “Larger than average breasts”, “promiscuous women” and “attractive women of oriental descent”

  Feb 27, 2011 at 9:42 pm   rating: 19  
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  • #8.1   bec

    Ummm “oriental” is only PC if you were born prior to 1863.

    Feb 27, 2011 at 9:46 pm   rating: 66  
     

  • #8.2   JetJackson

    Really? The term ‘Oriental’ is not unambiguously pejorative. Moreover I doubt that it’s use as such was a key issue that reached a turning point during the American Civil War.

    Feb 27, 2011 at 10:03 pm   rating: 12  
     

  • #8.3   bec

    I hear “oriental” is still widely used in Siam, Persia, Constantinople, Bombay & Ceylon.

    Feb 27, 2011 at 10:26 pm   rating: 62  
     

  • #8.4   Why?

    “The Orient is a term which means “the East.” It is a traditional designation for anything belonging to the Eastern world or the Far East, in relation to Europe. In English it is a metonym describing various parts of Asia. It was also used to indicate the eastern direction in historical astronomy as the adjective Oriental.”

    Feb 27, 2011 at 11:43 pm   rating: 6  
     

  • #8.5   JetJackson

    Things you ‘hear’ can often be unreliable. A bit of googling (much more reliable I will have you know) reveals that whilst Oriental is considered perjorative in the US it is not considered so in many other parts of the world – notably British English where it is an acceptable adjective. Given this note originates from Lancashire I stand by my advice to silly sausage.

    Feb 27, 2011 at 11:43 pm   rating: 14  
     

  • #8.6   zenvelo

    bec: you forgot Peiping (you youngsters might call it Peking!)

    Feb 28, 2011 at 12:13 am   rating: 2  
     

  • #8.7   Laura Brown

    In the UK, “Asian” is generally assumed to mean people with their roots in the Indian subcontinent (as this is the largest group of Asian immigrants to have settled in the UK — although many of them came by way of East Africa, rather than directly from Asia).

    “Oriental,” when it is used, means people from Japan, China, Korea, etc. However, it’s a bit of a stretch to call it “acceptable.” It does sound old-fashioned, and it implies a certain amount of alienation from the group you’re talking about. It’s rarely if ever used in formal contexts.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 1:07 am   rating: 25  
     

  • #8.8   Canthz_B

    I got a really good deal on an Iranian rug a few weeks ago, though my insurance man insisted on putting it on the policy as Persian.

    I feel dirty now!
    Thank goodness for the comfort my cat gives me as we sit and watch “Anna and the King Of Thailand” alongside my Thai-twin cousins, or was that “Lady and the Tramp”?…my tastes are so eclectic i can’t remember which!

    ♫ We are Siamese if you please…We are Siamese if you don’t please. ♫

    Fuck with me, but NEVER fuck with Walt Disney’s frozen head!

    Feb 28, 2011 at 1:30 am   rating: 8  
     

  • #8.9   Canthz_B

    What do they call the Far East in British Guiana, British Honduras and Rhodesia?
    What ever happened to Inner and Outer Mongolia? Did the place just implode? Do East and West German Olympic medals still count?

    And where is the appropriate place to burn old Social Studies books while keeping a small carbon footprint? (because “mrgreen” just seemed right here)

    A rose, by any other name…

    Feb 28, 2011 at 1:59 am   rating: 5  
     

  • #8.10   Canthz_B

    So, can Orientals still say “Occidental”?

    I’m genuinely confused as to whether both are wrong nowadays, or just the one?

    Or is just calling each other “people” better?

    Feb 28, 2011 at 2:54 am   rating: 5  
     

  • #8.11   jetjackson

    Sorry I still disagree… Going to have to side with team me on this one. I have dug my hole and if you will excuse me I am going to keep digging.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 3:17 am   rating: 3  
     

  • #8.12   infanttyrone

    JJ,
    Well, with you being what some Brits call an Antipodean, I can more or less dig where you’re coming from. Without knowing the exact starting point on your big island (eat your heart out, Hawaii), it’s hard to know just where you’ll pop out from if you survive the journey through the middle zone…holes from Perth go through to Bermuda, while starting in Melbourne winds you up in the Azores. Rather than going all the way through, maybe you should double back after digging a bit, dig a 90-degree spur tunnel, and let the language police that are hot on your trail take a trip to the molten middle.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 3:56 am   rating: 3  
     

  • #8.13   Laura Brown

    Canthz, your last suggestion is the best one I’ve seen.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 4:01 am   rating: 1  
     

  • #8.14   infanttyrone

    CB,

    1) Yes, Orientals can still say “Occidental”, but only if they are in the insurance bidness or blogging about severe post-root-canal pain without the aid of a spellchecker.

    2) According to new regulations, old Social Studies textbooks (or even older, preunification books on the subjects of History and Geography) must be recycled and made into toilet paper which is donated, via a USAID program, to the island of Santorini. This is a clear and egregious case of corporate welfare, since, although the paper is free, Rubbermaid is the only toilet-paper-receptacle vendor approved by USAID and the local government of Santorini, and they charge through the nose for those.

    3) Given the success of Mike’s Hard Lemonade, do you think they should try and market a green citrus-based product called “Blimey, Limey !” ?

    4) I hope your Thai-twins are people and not a couple of conjoined cats. Otherwise your pets (companion animals) might have the same problem as the child raised by a Move On man and his Log Cabin Republican partner…their Left Paw didn’t know what their Right Paw was doing.

    5) A Cairene is thinking about starting a blog to cover the coming unrest in areas between his home town and Iraq. Working title = Re:Levant

    Feb 28, 2011 at 4:42 am   rating: 1  
     

  • #8.15   Canthz_B

    LOL, Ty, as usual I was able to stay on the same track as your train of thought before I derailed on the second curve. You move too fast, and I loose my grip!

    Someday name changes will be outlawed and names of places will be standardized, but for now I have to get used to there being 5 oceans, although I was taught there were only 4.

    Sucks to have had good geography grades 40 years ago, then have the world change and, to add insult to injury, they don’t even teach geography anymore. God, I miss Czechoslovakia!

    Feb 28, 2011 at 8:28 am   rating: 5  
     

  • #8.16   Canthz_B

    Actually, now that I think about it, I wonder if “Oriental” doesn’t have something to do with how we orient the start of the day on planet Earth, given where the international date line is.
    I mean, our day is oriented by that line, so making that the start point should confer a meaning of prominence to the people living in the “Oriental Time Zone” or starting point, no?
    Again, no research, just wondering if that could be where this comes from.
    Not stirring a turd.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 8:40 am   rating: 3  
     

  • #8.17   Jimmy James

    It’s no longer acceptable to call British people ‘limeys’. Their sailors switched over to using naval oranges to fight scruvy years ago.

    Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 10:14 am   rating: 14  
     

  • #8.18   infanttyrone

    CB,

    Per the occasionally successful Wiki page on/for/about Asia:

    The term “Asia” is originally a concept exclusively of Western civilization.[6] The peoples of ancient Asia (Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Persians, Arabs etc.) never conceived the idea of Asia, simply because they did not see themselves collectively. In their perspective, they were vastly varied civilizations, contrary to ancient European belief.[6]……..
    The ideas of Occidental (form Latin Occidens ‘setting’) and Oriental (from Latin Oriens for ‘rising’) are also European invention, synonymous with Western and Eastern.[6] Reid further emphasizes that it explains the Western point of view of placing all the peoples and cultures of Asia into a single classification, almost as if there were a need for setting the distinction between Western and Eastern civilizations on the Eurasian continent.[6]

    So, we (the perhaps less varied civilizations [or "civilizations", for the hair-shirt crowd] who typically think of ourselves as “Westerners”) have been using Occident/Orient terminology since long before the IDL, which was legally established only in 1917 (trusting Wiki). The question that occurs to me is whether any of those vastly varied cultures the PC police insensitively lump into “Asia” have similar East/West terminologies based on a need for setting the distinction between Western and Eastern civilizations. What if some of them thought of themselves as Westerners ? Thailand is west of Japan (although not as much as your average Social Studies student might think), so might they not think of folks in Hawaii as “Orientals” from the Far East ? It’s a question that cries out for assistance from native botanicals and an afternoon of studying M.C. Escher’s prints.

    Actually that second curve was intended to be a knuckleball, which reminds me to thank you for keeping cricket terminology from creeping into the “pitch” thread a few days ago. When the terms “pitch”, “fast ball”, and “slow ball” suddenly get mixed up with “bowling”, it makes my head spin, much like it does while reading the following “explanation” of some of that game’s mechanics:

    A left-handed bowler who uses the leg spin action naturally bowls the ball so it spins in the opposite direction to a right-handed leg spinner. Such a bowler is not called a leg spinner, but a left-arm unorthodox spinner. Such spinners are also sometimes colloquially called Chinamen, since the first notable practitioner was of a Chinese background. The leg spin action itself is often called wrist spin, since most of the spin is imparted by the wrist. Both leg spinners and left-arm unorthodox spinners are wrist spinners.

    *Apologies in advance to Jet, Rose, and any others who night be offended by my pretending to be addled by the above transparent prose.

    ** I suspect that your humour batting average is substantially above what most would call “occasionally successful”.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 11:50 am   rating: 0  
     

  • #8.19   infanttyrone

    Jimmy James,

    The ‘limey’ bit was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, as I hope was your use of ‘naval’ oranges, which, with the possible exception of products of shipboard horticulture, are called, in U.S. English anyway, ‘navel’ oranges. Greeks (because it’s their language) and foppish fans of James Joyce (for reasons that are all too fathomable) may toss around the word “omphalos”, but you’ve got about a Chinaman’s chance in Hell of hearing one of them say ‘naftikos’.

    Speaking of Chinamen…
    1) If you weren’t referring to my ‘use’ of the word in quoting a website devoted to cricket, what were you referring to ? I did a ‘Find’ search on this page and, except for our posts, came up empty on ‘china’ and ‘dude’, so I’m scratching my head a bit (if that’s still an acceptable phrase).
    2) If you were referring to the above, please tell me how you were apparently able to post your admonishment 96 minutes before I hit the Submit button on my end. At least one Enquiring Mind wants to know.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 12:24 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #8.20   la B

    Not to put too fine a point on it, but with his “Chinaman” comment, Jimmy James was referencing what is quite possibly one of the greatest movies of all time…

    *of all time!*

    Feb 28, 2011 at 12:56 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #8.21   infanttyrone

    la B,

    Oh, thanks…I only saw it once and I’ve been mostly absent from this site for 6 months or so, so I didn’t catch Le’Bowski reference (PMF).
    Nice to know that my post-in-progress wasn’t being hacked and that the fabric of the time-space continuum wasn’t being shredded.

    Bravo, Jimmy ! (not referencing David McCallum as Dr. Mallard)

    Feb 28, 2011 at 1:13 pm   rating: 0  
     

  • #8.22   Jimmy James

    Honestly, I’ve just been saving the lame sailors / ‘naval’ oranges for scurvy joke (Because they’re in the Navy? Eh?) and this seemed like as good a set up as I could expect. Sometimes my humor doesn’t translate well to the internet- I thought switching from IE to Firefox might help, but apparently not.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 2:32 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #8.23   TKD

    Jimmy, even without ty’s overly researched retorts you get a thumb for 8.17. But the fact that you evoked such response… well it’s just fucking delicious!

    Ty, really? Thank you for making my day brighter because now I can almost justify saying: “Bad retort you!”

    Feb 28, 2011 at 3:16 pm   rating: 3  
     

  • #8.24   Natasha

    Ha ha. Somebody thinks that internet revolves around them.
    Bravo!

    Feb 28, 2011 at 3:44 pm   rating: 4  
     

  • #8.25   Odious

    It won’t be long and “asian” will be seen as perjorative, too.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 4:23 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #8.26   Nunavut Guy

    I guess slant eyed little wog is right out of play.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 6:19 pm   rating: 3  
     

  • #8.27   butt

    @Odious: it already is in some circles. Some Asian Americans resent being called just “Asian” (it gives an implication that they are foreigners when they are Americans). Most people would call a black person “African American” but that’s as far as it goes… Hispanics are often lumped together as “Mexicans” regardless of their real country of descent, and almost never “Mexican/Honduran/Peruvian/etc Americans” at all.

    Feb 28, 2011 at 8:45 pm   rating: 0  
     

  • #8.28   Canthz_B

    The reason we are called “African Americans” is because there really is no way to know what nation state we come from. We’ve been forced to claim the entire continent as a result. I’d love to be a Nation-American like Irish-Americans and everyone else, but that wasn’t a part of the business model of the slave trade. As a result of a few hundred years of interbreeding with whites and Africans descended from many different tribes, we have become a distinct race of people. A people both culturally and genetically (as well as aesthetically) different from our African brethren.
    Count your blessings if your heritage has not been stolen from you.
    And maybe understand just a little what some people have lost and still survived, in fact, in many cases prospered and contributed greatly.

    BTW, stop calling Barack Obama an African-American if you insist on making distinctions. He’s a Kenyan-American. His father was from Kenya, his mom American. He was born in Hawaii. He has no historical ties to American slavery (his dad came to America in the 1950s and missed all of that fun) and knows well from whence he comes.

    Mar 1, 2011 at 12:33 am   rating: 10  
     

  • #8.29   Canthz_B

    Call me what you will. I’ve been “Colored”, “Negro”, “Black”, “Afro-American”, “African-American” and a list of unmentionables in my relatively short life (“Niggra” always warms my heart).
    But I’ve always been me, and I’m good with that.

    Don’t get bent out of shape over labels. Those change…you should be true to yourself, not some label.

    Mar 1, 2011 at 10:28 pm   rating: 4  
     

  • #8.30   FeRD

    I can call you Betty.

    Mar 1, 2011 at 10:45 pm   rating: 5  
     

  • #8.31   Canthz_B

    Or Wilma. But please don’t call me Shirley…or late for dinner!

    Mar 1, 2011 at 10:49 pm   rating: 7  
     

  • #8.32   Booger

    Wow…lots of people got themselves worked up over nothing. Argue over your white liberal guilt all you want. Who gives a rat’s ass what you call someone? We all taste salty and a little funky (depending on whether you were just playing sports and haven’t showered or maybe you have, but you are just nasty) at times of the day.

    Mar 1, 2011 at 11:11 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #8.33   FeRD

    Sometimes we’re nutty, sometimes we’re corny,
    We can be brown or… greenish brown!

    Mar 1, 2011 at 11:51 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #8.34   pony girl

    Can’t speak for other countries, but in the USA most people say Asian instead of Oriental. Usually, the older someone is, the more likely they are to say Oriental. I’ve never really understood how Oriental came to be thought of as racist.

    Of course, back home, we don’t use either. Because we say Japanese, or Okinawan, or Chinese or Korean or whatever.
    Because in Hawai’i we can actually tell what everyone is. (unless they’re haole, then we have no clue. )

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• #9   aaa

  You silly sausage
  Hey, I see what you wank to
  Go for drinks later?

  Feb 27, 2011 at 10:56 pm   rating: 7  
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• #10   George

  I think we all need a lesson in cultural understanding. In England, “Asian” means someone of South Asian (e.g. Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, etc.) descent. “Babes” means babies. “Tits” are a type of bird we call “chickadees.” And “sluts”… well, I’m sure that was a typo.

  Who’s the silly sausage (daft banger) now??

  Feb 28, 2011 at 12:56 am   rating: 25  
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• #11   Canthz_B

  Such a silly misunderstanding.

  There’s an obvious misspelling leading to all of this confusion.
  It should read “Big Tits”, “Sluts” and “Asian Babes” tend to not go untouched.

  Feb 28, 2011 at 1:49 am   rating: 5  
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• #12   graham_cracker

  The random smiley face tends to make it all the more creepy. I bet they’ve got some sort of perverted smiley face armband-wearing secret police going on there with security cameras set up in strange random places. And the “You silly sausage, you” suggests that the perp is now on some sort of secret hit list.

  Feb 28, 2011 at 2:14 am   rating: 3  
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• #13   matt

  poor guy! All he was doing was running some background checks on his clientelle. Afterall, it is a social services office. Gotta make sure thoses “unemployed single women” are fully checked out : b

  Feb 28, 2011 at 2:18 am   rating: 0  
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• #14   Canthz_B

  Response via email:

  Thank you for your kind notice of my diligent work in securing big tittied, slutty Asian babes for your upcoming trip to Singapore.
  I’ve been assured they are all virgins and under age fourteen as per your request.

  Please be advised that I will need more lead time to ensure such accommodations in advance of your scheduled trip to Las Vegas, as virgins are hard to come by in that locale.

  Always at your service,
  Corporate “Relations” Department

  Feb 28, 2011 at 2:39 am   rating: 10  
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• #15   Canthz_B

  No comment, may use this space later.

  Feb 28, 2011 at 2:51 am   rating: 2  
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• #16   The Elf

  I gotta ask – how does someone NOT assume their email & web use is being monitored at work?

  Feb 28, 2011 at 8:08 am   rating: 4  
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  • #16.1   Canthz_B

    You’re an elf. You know how Santa works…he knows if you’ve been bad or good, now we all know how he knows!

    Feb 28, 2011 at 8:59 am   rating: 6  
     
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• #17   epiphany

  @CantzB I’ve noticed you bombard each new post with multiple comments attempting humor that occasionally succeeds.

  Are you that Tosh.O guy?

  Feb 28, 2011 at 9:29 am   rating: 25  
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  • #17.1   clever name

    HAHAHA!

    Feb 28, 2011 at 11:38 am   rating: 1  
     

  • #17.2   CakeasaurusRex

    It’s all about the thumbs, man… all about the thumbs… *twitch*

    Feb 28, 2011 at 12:21 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #17.3   Canthz_B

    @epiphany, what was I thinking?! Telling jokes on a humorous website…and spelling other people’s names right?

    Feb 28, 2011 at 8:36 pm   rating: 4  
     

  • #17.4   ltv

    It’s about time someone mentioned this problem.
    Also, emoticons don’t add to the humor atttempts.

    Mar 2, 2011 at 7:52 am   rating: 1  
     

  • #17.5   Canthz_B

    It’s about time someone was given a reality check…

    Meat/poison. Fortunately, you don’t make the rules here.

    Don’t spend too much time on the internet. Tends to give you the false sense that you have some.

    Kerry can block me any time she likes. Thus far she hasn’t, so sit back and enjoy hating the ride.

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• #18   lili

  I think this is one of the better PA notes we’ve had in some time.

  Feb 28, 2011 at 1:36 pm   rating: 3  
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• #19   Criminal Defense Lawyer Los Angeles

  Well, you have to at least give them credit for not reporting it for criminal activity or anything. What better way to make laughter out of an embarrassing situation?

  Mar 1, 2011 at 4:53 pm   rating: 1  
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  • #19.1   FeRD

    No, *you* have to give them credit for that. WE only have to point out that there’s nothing criminal about viewing porn websites. Nor about misusing your employer’s computer in that way. (It can get you canned, escorted off the premises, heck probably even sued… but that still doesn’t make it illegal!)

    …Wait. How does a criminal defense lawyer not already know that? No matter, though — I’m sure it in no way reflects badly on your professional skills. Best of luck to you!

    Mar 2, 2011 at 12:03 am   rating: 3  
     
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