Comments on: Dishonest QCs http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/12/26/dishonest-qcs/ A barrister gossips & rants on intellectual property law, the legal system and civil liberties. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Geeklawyer http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/12/26/dishonest-qcs/#comment-640 Geeklawyer Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:53:15 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=193#comment-640 honestly Ruthie, you and your shameless self promotion. Anyway why would I pay a fiver for someone to wear that on their back? honestly Ruthie, you and your shameless self promotion. Anyway why would I pay a fiver for someone to wear that on their back?

]]> By: Ruthie http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/12/26/dishonest-qcs/#comment-647 Ruthie Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:17:06 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=193#comment-647 To Mary: I think the lobster motif was used by Charon, before the bib incident. I'm not sure what the connection is between Charon and lobsters though: perhaps he can enlighten us. Geeklawyer had been charged with designing some T shirts for this site as well as organising the blawging conference. So readers are invited to suggest suitable motifs and slogans... For an extra five quid, we'll do some with "I love Ruthie" on the back :-) To Mary: I think the lobster motif was used by Charon, before the bib incident. I’m not sure what the connection is between Charon and lobsters though: perhaps he can enlighten us.

Geeklawyer had been charged with designing some T shirts for this site as well as organising the blawging conference. So readers are invited to suggest suitable motifs and slogans…

For an extra five quid, we’ll do some with “I love Ruthie” on the back :-)

]]> By: Ruthie http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/12/26/dishonest-qcs/#comment-646 Ruthie Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:12:07 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=193#comment-646 Apparently it costs fifteen quid to get one of these lapel buttons. Please do make one Charon becuase the polite English will notice it but never comment or ask what you got it for... And given that most people wont really know exactly what they look like you don't have to make a very good copy. In fact you could make something up entirely and people would probably still be fooled. Ruthie wonders how long it will be before the first one appears on E Bay.. Apparently it costs fifteen quid to get one of these lapel buttons. Please do make one Charon becuase the polite English will notice it but never comment or ask what you got it for… And given that most people wont really know exactly what they look like you don’t have to make a very good copy. In fact you could make something up entirely and people would probably still be fooled.

Ruthie wonders how long it will be before the first one appears on E Bay..

]]> By: Mary http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/12/26/dishonest-qcs/#comment-638 Mary Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:00:21 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=193#comment-638 you say that as if it were a bad thing Geekie. I am very bad, very bad in deed... oh ever shall I learn my lesson? I still want the lobster with a calculator in its claw. you say that as if it were a bad thing Geekie.

I am very bad, very bad in deed… oh ever shall I learn my lesson?

I still want the lobster with a calculator in its claw.

]]> By: Geeklawyer http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/12/26/dishonest-qcs/#comment-643 Geeklawyer Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:11:01 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=193#comment-643 Mary: like most Canadians you are steeped in wicked and glutinous sin. Nor need you pretend that the lobster meme was accidental: you are malicious evil and wicked. Bad Bad Mary. Mary: like most Canadians you are steeped in wicked and glutinous sin. Nor need you pretend that the lobster meme was accidental: you are malicious evil and wicked.

Bad Bad Mary.

]]> By: Mary http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/12/26/dishonest-qcs/#comment-645 Mary Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:51:07 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=193#comment-645 I think this whole "lobster" thing that is swimming about in each of our sub-conscious is due to my having christened Ruthie "Lobster Bib Lady". Glad to know that I have contributed somehow. Can I have a Lobster with a tiny calculator in one claw? I think this whole “lobster” thing that is swimming about in each of our sub-conscious is due to my having christened Ruthie “Lobster Bib Lady”.

Glad to know that I have contributed somehow.

Can I have a Lobster with a tiny calculator in one claw?

]]> By: Geeklawyer http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/12/26/dishonest-qcs/#comment-639 Geeklawyer Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:49:50 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=193#comment-639 CharonQC: I rather like the idea of Blue Peter style Honours badges. It may well, like VCs, lead to a thriving after market & I fancy buying my New Years Honour - after all it's what happens now anyway and this way everyone gets a stab at it. I won't comment on your typos other than to say they are an effective sobriety indicator! They would be for me too, but these days I use the Firefox 2 web browser which has an in-built spell-checker and it is much harder to make mistakes: though one must remember to select the option of using the only true English, British English. Failing that one may utter a howler like <i>'color'</i>, oh dear, oh dear. No. CharonQC: I rather like the idea of Blue Peter style Honours badges. It may well, like VCs, lead to a thriving after market & I fancy buying my New Years Honour - after all it’s what happens now anyway and this way everyone gets a stab at it.

I won’t comment on your typos other than to say they are an effective sobriety indicator! They would be for me too, but these days I use the Firefox 2 web browser which has an in-built spell-checker and it is much harder to make mistakes: though one must remember to select the option of using the only true English, British English. Failing that one may utter a howler like ‘color’, oh dear, oh dear. No.

]]> By: Charon QC http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/12/26/dishonest-qcs/#comment-641 Charon QC Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:29:11 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=193#comment-641 Can I tell your readers...that your blog software does not seem to be able to handle my appalling typing / typos... whereas, my own blog software - behaves impeccably... Can I tell your readers…that your blog software does not seem to be able to handle my appalling typing / typos… whereas, my own blog software - behaves impeccably…

]]> By: Charon QC http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/12/26/dishonest-qcs/#comment-642 Charon QC Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:26:57 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=193#comment-642 Geeklawyer... it will come as no surprise to you that our government now want to give 'Blue Peter' style badges to people who are awarded/ win honours ( I do not wih to suggest, in any way, that the Bingo/Raffle/gaming laws of Great britain are now being rent assunder by the award of honours) ).... so they can pin them to their lapels....much easier than tarting about in ermine or wearing a GCMG medal, sash etc etc... when one pops into 'town' or slopes of to a Putney wine bar . Have you ever been to Putney?... (I am pretty sure I saw this story in the Independent today... the 'badges' bit...but I could be wrong) Why would any mature person actually want to proclaim their 'status' with a lapel badge? This 'lapel badge' plan will be announced by our 'Saturday Swopshop' government at the same time as they announce the 2007 honours. I am going to spend some time this weekend making a lapel badge for myself. I have a feeling that it may resemble a lobster. God in heaven...'gee gaws and baubles...as we used to say when I was a 'wee bairn' in Glasgow... and, of course, at Bannockburn I despair.... Citizen Charon Geeklawyer… it will come as no surprise to you that our government now want to give ‘Blue Peter’ style badges to people who are awarded/ win honours ( I do not wih to suggest, in any way, that the Bingo/Raffle/gaming laws of Great britain are now being rent assunder by the award of honours) )…. so they can pin them to their lapels….much easier than tarting about in ermine or wearing a GCMG medal, sash etc etc… when one pops into ‘town’ or slopes of to a Putney wine bar . Have you ever been to Putney?…

(I am pretty sure I saw this story in the Independent today… the ‘badges’ bit…but I could be wrong)

Why would any mature person actually want to proclaim their ’status’ with a lapel badge? This ‘lapel badge’ plan will be announced by our ‘Saturday Swopshop’ government at the same time as they announce the 2007 honours.

I am going to spend some time this weekend making a lapel badge for myself. I have a feeling that it may resemble a lobster. God in heaven…’gee gaws and baubles…as we used to say when I was a ‘wee bairn’ in Glasgow… and, of course, at Bannockburn

I despair….

Citizen Charon

]]> By: Geeklawyer http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/12/26/dishonest-qcs/#comment-644 Geeklawyer Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:15:44 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=193#comment-644 To my astonishment both 'Gorvis' & 'Jocker' are real names and not the fictitious pseudonym for the all too real ***** QC I'd imagined. Thank heavens there IS no Gorvis Jocker QC or I'd be having an Artemus Jones moment, and, like the Xmas turkey, I've overindulged alleged defamation of late :) To my astonishment both ‘Gorvis’ & ‘Jocker’ are real names and not the fictitious pseudonym for the all too real ***** QC I’d imagined. Thank heavens there IS no Gorvis Jocker QC or I’d be having an Artemus Jones moment, and, like the Xmas turkey, I’ve overindulged alleged defamation of late :)

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