Lawyer jokes / Witze über Anwälte
am 23.09.2005 von http://transblawg.euLOWERING THE BAR Lawyer jokes and legal culture Marc Galanter 430pp. | University of Wisconsin Press. $45; distributed in the UK by Eurospan. £32.95. | 0 299 21350 …
Language jokes in The Simpsons
Transblawg / Heidi at HeiDeas collects linguistically relevant Simpsons jokes: Origins of English Homer: English? Who needs that? I’m never going to England. Lisa tries to learn Italian. Milhouse, who has been covertly bilingual all this time, is her inst…
YOU’LL LOVE IT
LawBlog / One afternoon a wealthy lawyer was riding in his limousine when he saw two men along the roadside eating grass. Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and got out to investigate. He asked one man, “Why are you eating grass?” “We …
Anonymous Lawyer Weblog
Transblawg / Anonymous Lawyer is a wonderful read. I don’t know why I haven’t linked to it before. I have only read it sporadically too. Here’s some of the Thanksgiving post: I thought I would wish the people who read this a...…
Der billige Jakob
Transblawg / Youtube video of Der billige Jakob at the Michaeliskirchweih in Fürth. His jokes are usually better. There’s another video of the Kirchweih where I can’t even understand the punchline.…
Zurich lawyer video
Transblawg / Found on YouTube (the tag ‘lawyer’ produces some genuine and fake ads too). Senior lawyer from Zurich shows students some old school electric boogie and break dance moves at a convention in Vienna. Video…
Spam-Blawg: Litigation Lawyer
Jurabilis / Der Litigation Lawyer setzt hoffentlich keinen Trend ... …
Every lawyer needs a hobby/Freizeitbeschäftigung für Anwälte
Transblawg / Evan Schaeffer, in his Legal Underground, once explained how important he thinkg it is for a lawyer to have a hobby. Had he encountered Donald Ray Burger, of Houston, Texas? Not just turtles and farewell to a Texas boot store, but Cherokees and out…
Never write a law blog for the search engines
Handakte WebLAWg / A lot of lawyers publish blogs for the sole reason of achieving high search engine rankings. Their blogs show it. You’ve seen these blogs - or maybe you haven’t as word of such tasteless marketing doesn’t spread across the net or ge…
Final Blogbook Post
Handakte WebLAWg / “A couple of years back, when we started The Blogbook, there were very few legal blogs. Now of course there are thousands, including blogs from big firm lawyers as well as solos. Our original intention for this blog was to try to figure out if…
Spaß am Donnerstag
Jurabilis / A lawyer dies in a car accident on his 40th birthday and finds himself greeted at the Pearly Gates by a brass band. Saint Peter runs over, shaks his hands and says, Congratulations! Congratulations on what? asks the lawyer. Congratulations for…
Weblogs that have nothing to do with legal translation
Transblawg / Drones Club, EN, by Cornelius Bear, is a spoof foodie blog (via Appetites, which isn’t, and which is written by a lawyer). English Cut, EN, is the blog of Thomas Mahon, a bespoke tailor of Savile Row and points north....…
Legal language in Europe
Transblawg / A more coherent European wide [sic] legal language, by Viola Heutger, of the University of Utrecht, is an online paper (PDF or html) I found through DORES, whose latest set of new publications relating to language and law has just appeared. It doesn&…
