Lawyers...don't they have anything better to do with their time?
A couple of weeks ago I lent a DVD of 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy' (see pic below) to Amy who is the 'Amy' from my best Australian friends 'Amy and Robert' aka 'Robert and Amy'. If you don't know who they are then check out their new Australian blog here.
Amy is a very clever media lawyer who is currently working for one of the major TV channels in Sydney. A couple of months ago I might have accidentally had 'one of my rants' at her about how annoying it is when lawyers use words such as "erstwhile" and "therewith" as if it was their own language, knowing that nobody else (and possibly even other lawyers) really knows what these word conjunctions mean! It's almost as bad as the railways signalling industry in which I work where we have an absolute passion for acronyms [Note: Most are not strictly acronyms, but abbreviations, if you are being picky!] such as AWS, ERTMS, ETCS, TISP, TORR, HST, PSR, TSR, ATO, ATP, TPWS, AL, HR, DR, SR, TPR, TC, AC, POL, OL, etc, etc.
So anyway, having forgotten both the above mentioned incidents (the lending of the DVD and the rant), I was surprised to receive some mail this morning, especially as it arrived in a Channel 9 official envelope! Enclosed was the DVD along with a letter, I'll let you read it for yourselves (mainly because I can't be arsed to publish a recording of me reading it aloud), but suffice to say it had me in hysterics.
I guess this is proof that if Lawyers used their intellectual powers for good (e.g. comedy) and not evil (i.e. being a Lawyer), then the world could be a much funnier place.
Amy is a very clever media lawyer who is currently working for one of the major TV channels in Sydney. A couple of months ago I might have accidentally had 'one of my rants' at her about how annoying it is when lawyers use words such as "erstwhile" and "therewith" as if it was their own language, knowing that nobody else (and possibly even other lawyers) really knows what these word conjunctions mean! It's almost as bad as the railways signalling industry in which I work where we have an absolute passion for acronyms [Note: Most are not strictly acronyms, but abbreviations, if you are being picky!] such as AWS, ERTMS, ETCS, TISP, TORR, HST, PSR, TSR, ATO, ATP, TPWS, AL, HR, DR, SR, TPR, TC, AC, POL, OL, etc, etc.
So anyway, having forgotten both the above mentioned incidents (the lending of the DVD and the rant), I was surprised to receive some mail this morning, especially as it arrived in a Channel 9 official envelope! Enclosed was the DVD along with a letter, I'll let you read it for yourselves (mainly because I can't be arsed to publish a recording of me reading it aloud), but suffice to say it had me in hysterics.
I guess this is proof that if Lawyers used their intellectual powers for good (e.g. comedy) and not evil (i.e. being a Lawyer), then the world could be a much funnier place.
posted by Nurton at 2:56 pm
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