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Posted by: rs on 6/05/1998@11:05hrs:
In Reply to: Re: Post-a-Joke #47 posted by: CharlieJ on 6/04/1998@23:33hrs:
Yer right, I shoulda dunnit, then people wouldn't know how dumb I may really be, the could only suspect it which, as we all know is different. If there's one thing I like less than appearing dumb it's appearing to sound like a lawya, or at least too much like a lawya. Lawyas get a bad enuf rap as it is, so no sense acting out their worst traits. So I try to do things a little bit differently when I can. I like the best parts of making the lawyer's contribution, but I can do without the trappings, and that includes the verbal HS that includes the "whereases" and "wherefores." I'm writing a brief now in which "horseshit" is the only appropriate characterization for something my worthy adversary is doing, but even I hesitate to say "horseshit" in a brief, although my adversary, an old friend, I have no hesitation to telling him this to his face, and vice versa. Just the way we talk, man. What I do, and one of the reasons I like to come around here, is that I think in StatNisland, or StatNislandese. This is a level up from Brooklyn-think and Brooklynese, because I don't have to put the f-word between syllables the way dey do dere. I just think it between the words, which is plenty. At any rate, if it scans in StatNisland, I try to recast it into Standard English like the way I think they speak it in America. So "horseshit" in the brief is recast into "horsepucky" which isn't nearly as close to what I mean, but will have to do, life being full of comprof*ingmises as they say across the 69th Street ferry - I know, the ferry turned into da Bridge, but we're talking way back when I loined tawkin.'
Thanks Charlie for the softball and the chance to hit it over the short right field fence, the natural target for us Southpaws, speaking fer myself, which probly explains everything. -rs