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Richard_From_CHI

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Re: I loved the rich lawyer vacation shutdown!
« Reply #15 on: September 11, 2007, 04:43:23 PM »
As do I, but we aren't ALL bad.

pbost

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Re: I loved the rich lawyer vacation shutdown!
« Reply #16 on: September 12, 2007, 06:50:44 PM »
As the actual Paul from Nashville and a big The Best Show fan, I'd be remiss if I didn't take this opportunity to defend myself.  In hindsight (in fact, almost immediately from the time Tom GOMPED me), I realized that my proposed topic sounded naively patrician.  I was rightly subjected to ridicule, both by Tom and this message board.  In fact, I take it as a badge of honor that I inspired some great Best Show material and was GOMPED.  However, I can't help but feel that for the few words I actually uttered, I've been unfairly skewered.  I'm not going to attempt a point-by-point refutation of every assumption made of me, much less law school/students in general (I couldn't care less about the message board's opinion of the institution and its students), but I'm sure Mike A knows better than to think that where my girlfriend and I go on vacation is my biggest post-law school worry; it was a suggested topic, a fucking lark.  I thought I could get Tom on a roll, and I did, just not in the way I expected.

All in all, this has proved that I'm probably too sensitive to be an attorney.  Thanks for the gut check.

John Junk

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Re: I loved the rich lawyer vacation shutdown!
« Reply #17 on: September 12, 2007, 08:38:33 PM »
If it makes you feel any better, pbost, one of my best friends was GOMPed and ridiculed long after his call by Tom and the FOT.  And I'm not using "one of my best friends" as code for myself.  It was a dude who listens all the time, and got up the nerve to call maybe once or twice, and the second time offered up a story that then became incredulous joke fodder for the next 3 weeks.  Poor bastard.  He's a good guy, too.

KickTheBobo

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Re: I loved the rich lawyer vacation shutdown!
« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2007, 08:53:35 PM »
All in all, this has proved that I'm probably too sensitive to be an attorney.  Thanks for the gut check.

Res Ipsa Loquitur.

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Re: I loved the rich lawyer vacation shutdown!
« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2007, 10:03:33 PM »
Junk, I didn't know you were friends with Rose from (The) Poster Children.
I really don't appreciate your sarcastic, anti-comedy tone, Bro!

John Junk

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Re: I loved the rich lawyer vacation shutdown!
« Reply #20 on: September 13, 2007, 01:52:09 AM »
they all turn into hard-bitten slickters
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtoar25Nyq0[/youtube]

in an aside... Is that Jen Kirkman?  If so, I should announce that I'm thinking of becoming creepily preoccupied with the work of this woman.  Because I think she's hot. 

Richard_From_CHI

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Re: I loved the rich lawyer vacation shutdown!
« Reply #21 on: September 13, 2007, 11:32:51 AM »
As the actual Paul from Nashville and a big The Best Show fan, I'd be remiss if I didn't take this opportunity to defend myself. 

Anyone who suffers through the unpleasantness that is the Bar exam is worthy of my respect. Holy guacamole I hope I never have to do that again.