The Off Topic Topic

[Admiral Yi]

Jeez Boner, you've posted that Vanilla Ice classified almost as many times as we've seen the soda/pop map.

[Ed Anger]

Jeez Boner, you've posted that Vanilla Ice classified almost as many times as we've seen the soda/pop map.

You know, I've genuinely stopped caring. This place gives me a headache.

[Ideologue]

Personally I always enjoyed it.  It's a classic.  Yi wants us to forget our cultural heritage.

[Habbaku]

Jeez Boner, you've posted that Vanilla Ice classified almost as many times as we've seen the soda/pop map.

You know, I've genuinely stopped caring. This place gives me a headache.

That's an old line, too.

Oh, well; you're still a lot more entertaining than Neil.

[CountDeMoney]

Harriet Tubman carried an 1848 .44 Colt Dragoon.

[Grinning_Colossus]

Meanwhile, in Russia... http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/265455/Bear-s-eating-me-girl-told-mum-in-call

[HVC]

that's just terrifying on several levels.

[DGuller]

I was going to make some smartass comment, but then I read the story. 

[LaCroix]

i couldn't bear to have that happen to me. did they strip the flesh bare, or leave her mostly intact, i wonder

[Malthus]

i couldn't bear to have that happen to me. did they strip the flesh bare, or leave her mostly intact, i wonder

It's truly unbearable. 

However, in my opinion, not real.

For one, contrary to common belief, bears do not growl when eating - they are mostly silent - but hoaxers always add in the "growling" notion. That's a somewhat telling detail.

A similar hoax is the circulation of the last minutes of the "Grizzly Man" who, together with his GF, was eaten alive and recorded on tape. That tape has not been released to the public, but several versions - complete with growling bear - can allegedly be found on the internet (all are hoaxes).

http://www.yellowstone-bearman.com/Tim_Treadwell.html

Have you listened to the supposedly "real death audio" that is floating around on the internet, including UTube and is it real?

I have heard it and no it is not real but a fake or spoof. Jewel Palovak still holds the original tape and has no plans to release it. I hope that she never does. There is now a second fake version posted on UTube. The publisher of this latest UTube version stated to me in an email that he knew the audio he labeled as real, is in fact a fake. It was posted to draw traffic to his UTube page.

There are several ways to determine whether one of these recordings is real or not. Just recently I was given access to the first 2 minutes of the 6 minute tape. There are two sounds that have not been published that are unmistakeable and have been missing in each fake tape that I have heard. All fake recordings so far have been under 3 minutes in length and the real tape is 6 minutes. As I reported above in my investigation the bear is nearly silent. Bears typically make very little sounds, and each fake recording has the sound of a bear roaring, growling, and making all sorts of noises. In movies, bear noises are dubbed in electronically.

[DGuller]

It's a hoax?  Damn. 

[garbon]

I assumed this was fake but I couldn't find anything definite.

[Josephus]

Other stories in that "news" paper:



Europe 'on course to become one country'

Bride's screams as she sees shark kill husband


Stone Age underground tunnels found running from Scotland to Istanbul

How Pippa Middleton's famous asset bowled over boyfriend Alex

[HVC]

How Pippa Middleton’s famous asset bowled over boyfriend Alex

I'm intrigued

[Barrister]

Fired first-year lawyer sues New York firm for $77 million
By Jessica Dye, editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Cynthia Johnston | Reuters – 23 hours agotweet3EmailPrintRelated

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A first-year attorney at a New York law firm who was fired after boasting about his "superior legal mind" and angering his colleagues has filed a $77 million lawsuit against his former employer.

Gregory Berry, a former first-year associate at Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman, accused the firm of unethical behavior and lying about its work culture in a lawsuit filed on Monday in Manhattan state Supreme Court.

Two partners are also named as defendants in the suit. Berry accuses them of interfering with his job, inflicting emotional distress and trying to thwart his career prospects.

Berry claims he "immediately began doing superlative work" when he started working at Kasowitz last September after attending law school at the University of Pennsylvania.

But he ran into trouble after a few months when he e-mailed partners asking for more responsibility, he said in the lawsuit.

"It has become clear that I have as much experience and ability as an associate many years my senior, as much skill writing and a superior legal mind to most I have met," his email said, according to his complaint.

He was informed by a partner at the firm that his email had "burned bridges" in the office, and he was fired a few days later, according to the lawsuit.

"There's simply no room in a big law firm for an intelligent, creative lawyer with real-world experience, and I had to find that out the hard way," Berry told Reuters.

In the lawsuit, he also said he was fired for comments he made about "possibly fraudulent" billing practices at the firm.

Mitchell Schrage, a managing partner at Kasowitz, called the lawsuit frivolous. He said Berry got a "substantial severance payment" but had threatened to sue unless he was paid more.

Since leaving Kasowitz, Berry has gone into solo practice, he said. He is seeking $25 million in compensatory damages, about $2 million from the two partners and punitive damages of at least $50 million.

(Reporting by Jessica Dye, editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Cynthia Johnston)

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/fired-first-lawyer-sues-york-firm-77-million-212639501.html



Yeah, good luck with that.

Of course I've met many lawyers who probably thought they had "superior legal minds"...