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That great line from 'A Hard Day's Night'... He's such a clean old man!

The gender is generic...

Scientology makes another Great Leap Forward... Inside Scientology's super power building: welcome to the smell wall http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/nov/19/inside-scientology-new-cathedral-church-religion

Back story: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2012/aug/29/apple-samsung-trucks-nickels-fake

Wherever did you get the notion that I evaluated it? As lookin, more or less, concurred.

NYT's account: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/john-edwards-revisits-his-past-hanging-law-shingle-again/?_r=0

Too bad! Pretty good punk.

Samsung pays Apple $1 Billion sending 30 trucks full of 5 cent coinsNovember 13 This morning more than 30 trucks filled with 5-cent coins arrived at Apple’s headquarters in California. Initially, the security company that protects the facility said the trucks were in the wrong place, but minutes later, Tim Cook (Apple CEO) received a call from Samsung CEO explaining that they will pay $1 billion dollars for the fine recently ruled against the South Korean company in this way. The funny part is that the signed document does not specify a single payment method, so Samsung is entitled to send the creators of the iPhone their billion dollars in the way they deem best. This dirty but genius geek troll play is a new headache to Apple executives as they will need to put in long hours counting all that money, to check if it is all there and to try to deposit it crossing fingers to hope a bank will accept all the coins. Lee Kun-hee, Chairman of Samsung Electronics, told the media that his company is not going to be intimidated by a group of “geeks with style” and that if they want to play dirty, they also know how to do it. http://thebladebrownshow.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/lawsuit-paid-in-full-samsung-pays-apple-1-billion-sending-30-trucks-full-of-5-cent-coins/

Every time I see the title of this thread I think of the Barefoot Bandit kid who was into stealing airplanes... ...Colton Harris-Moore.

Hope hito isn't reading this.

John Edwards is starting a new Raleigh law firm By David Ranii dranii@newsobserver.com November 18, 2013 Updated 7 hours ago Law firm partners Cate Edwards, former US Senator John Edwards and David Kirby at the Edwards Kirby law firm on Monday November 18, 2013 in Raleigh, N.C. JILL KNIGHT — jhknight@newsobserver.com RALEIGH — John Edwards, the former U.S. senator and presidential candidate whose political career was derailed by a sex scandal that transfixed the nation, is returning to what initially thrust him into the public spotlight: practicing law. In a Monday afternoon interview with The News & Observer, Edwards said he is reuniting with his former law partner, prominent trial lawyer David Kirby, to form the law firm Edwards Kirby. Edwards, who at 60 retains the boyish good looks that were such an asset during his years in politics, talked enthusiastically about returning to the courtroom and fighting well-heeled defendants on behalf of people who’ve been wronged. “I loved it for the decades I did it, and I think it’s what I was born to do,” he said. Before he launched his successful candidacy for the U.S. Senate in 1998, Edwards cemented a reputation as a formidable trial lawyer whose meticulous preparation, choirboy appearance and soft-spoken, down-to-earth manner wowed juries and produced a string of big verdicts. According to the trade journal Lawyer’s Weekly, he won at least $152.4 million for his clients – people who blamed their severe, if not horrific, injuries on doctors, hospitals, trucking companies and other businesses. Those victories made Edwards a multimillionaire. Edwards gave interviews to a few media outlets on Monday – his first interviews in several years – to discuss the launch of the new firm. He responded with a quick “no” when asked if he foresees ever running for office again – and declined when asked if he wanted to qualify that answer in any way. He also said he’s not concerned that his affair and child with Rielle Hunter while his late wife Elizabeth Edwards was fighting cancer might lead juries to be unsympathetic to his cases. The decades he spent in courtrooms, Edwards said, taught him that juries decide cases “based on the evidence that is given to them, based on the law that is given to them, how thoroughly the case is presented to them. Courtrooms are not a place where, in my experience, showmanship and flamboyance wins out. Hard work and having a case that is true and meritorious wins out.” As for the possibility of rehabilitating his image, Edwards said: “I can tell you that I’m in the business of helping other people. If I’m doing things for the right reasons, for others, I’ll let other things take care of themselves.” Firm to have broad scope Edwards called his once-and-future partner, Kirby, whom he has known since their first day of law school together at UNC-Chapel Hill, “the best lawyer I know.” Kirby is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, an invitation-only group that boasts its members are “the best 100 trial lawyers in the country.” The two lawyers worked together on some of Edwards’ best-known cases, including winning a $25 million jury verdict for a 9-year-old Cary girl whose intestines were sucked out by an uncovered swimming pool drain. At the time it was the largest personal injury verdict ever in North Carolina. The new firm has six attorneys and plans to open its doors for business Tuesday in offices that are across the hall from the original firm on Glenwood Avenue. The new firm also features another lawyer named Edwards – his oldest daughter Cate. Kirby said his previous firm, Kirby & Holt, has been dissolved and that two other lawyers formerly with that firm are joining Edwards Kirby. Although the original firm formed by Edwards and Kirby focused “almost exclusively” on wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases, Kirby said the reincarnated firm will have a broader scope. It also will take on civil rights and discrimination lawsuits and “consumer protection issues” such as fraud against consumers and small businesses. The firm has two offices – the second is in Washington, D.C. – and plans to accept cases from across the country. Many out-of-state cases would involve teaming up with local attorneys. Edwards Kirby will work on contingency fees, which means it receives a percentage of any jury award or settlement and receives nothing at all in a losing case. “It’s really a big thing for us to level the playing field, to give regular people who have been treated unfairly a chance against really powerful opponents and well-funded opponents,” John Edwards said. Edwards’ all-American-boy image was shattered in the wake of revelations that, during his 2008 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, he had an affair with his videographer, Hunter. His late wife, Elizabeth, a fellow law student at UNC-Chapel Hill whom he married the day after he passed the bar, was cast as “The Good Wife” in the ensuing media coverage. Elizabeth Edwards was an especially sympathetic figure because she was battling cancer in the midst of her husband’s affair – a battle that she ultimately lost. John Edwards declined to discuss his current relationship with Hunter. ‘He’s my dad’ Cate Edwards, 31, a graduate of Harvard Law School, said her father inspired her to become a lawyer and that “it has always been a dream of mine to work with him.” “I know my dad really well, we’ve been through a lot together, and I know in his heart he really, truly cares about his clients and he really, truly cares about the practice of law,” she said. “Plus,” she said, “he’s my dad, and I love him very much.” Cate Edwards sat behind her father throughout his criminal trial last year on charges that he violated campaign finance law by secretly obtaining more than $900,000 from a pair of donors to hide his then-pregnant mistress. She listened as witnesses recounted seamy details of his affair and volatile arguments between her parents. Working through it all After the six-week trial in Greensboro, a federal jury found Edwards not guilty on one charge and failed to reach a verdict on five other charges. Federal prosecutors decided not to retry the case. Cate Edwards has told other interviewers that she and her father have worked through the pain his affair caused. She launched and heads the Elizabeth Edwards Foundation, which provides support for disadvantaged students, in honor of her mother. She also co-founded a public interest law firm in Washington, D.C., Edwards & Eubanks, more than a year ago. She and her partner Sharon Eubanks now comprise Edwards Kirby’s Washington office. John Edwards began his career in Nashville, Tenn., as a lawyer for the defense. He defended banks, insurance companies and other businesses at a law firm headed by former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander. The son of a textile worker who grew up in the small Moore County town of Robbins, Edwards returned to the state in 1981 and joined the blue-chip Raleigh law firm now known as Tharrington Smith. There he rolled up a string of multimillion-dollar verdicts before departing in 1993 to start his own firm with Kirby. Edwards said he’s not returning to the law because he needs the money, but declined to discuss his finances. “I’m going to respectfully decline to talk about my personal finances,” he said. “I’m not running for anything now.” http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/11/18/3385956/john-edwards-is-starting-a-new.html

If you liked Python's 'Ministry of Silly Walks' sketch... ...you can now generate your own Silly Walks: http://www.sillywalksgenerator.com/ Also, apparently they are going to reunite for a stage show. More details tomorrow... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/comedy/comedy-news/10458965/Monty-Python-reunion-planned-for-new-stage-show.html

With all that, I was having fun just watching how long the thread could hold itself in.

Another 1,000, please! So beautiful.

That is a brilliant idea. I feel the same way about turkey.

...And here is its bride?! Qatar's accidental vagina stadium is most gratifyingThe resemblance of the Al-Wakrah World Cup stadium to the female genitalia can only be a good thing – sport and vaginas are not always such public bedfellows Holly Baxter theguardian.com, The Al-Wakrah stadium in Qatar: 'With its shiny, pinkish tinge and labia-like side appendages, the supposedly innocent building was just asking for trouble.' Photograph: AECOM Have you ever heard of the Vagina Building? If you're not from Chicago, it's unlikely – but if you are, it's a precious part of local folklore and a celebrated shape on the skyline. Towering amid the clustered phallic skyscrapers, the Crain Communications Building (its slightly more official name) was completed in 1983 with a prominent vertical slit in the front. Urban legend – for sadly, that is all it is – states that the building was designed by a woman sick to her back teeth of phallic architecture as a big feminist middle finger to the men who had made her live in the shadow of their huge metal penis replacements for decades. The truth is that the vaginal resemblance is accidental, and the architect behind it very much male. But the story persists, and is still told with a sense of pride. Luckily for all of us who enjoy a good story involving construction and genitalia, this week has proven that Chicago's Vagina Building will soon be rubbing, er, shoulders with another case of "accidental vagina representation". The design for Qatar's new Al-Wakrah sports stadium has quickly gone viral: with its shiny, pinkish tinge, its labia-like side appendages and its large opening in the middle, the supposedly innocent building ("based upon the design of a traditional Qatari dhow boat") was just asking for trouble. And trouble came, in the form of Buzzfeed and thousands of Twitter fans. Surely a well-populated Facebook group is only hours away. As those who have tried to keep alive the tale of the Chicago tale of the Vagina Building know, there is something quite pleasing about a building shaped like a fanny. Look out on to the London skyline and penises are everywhere: the Gherkin, for instance, might even be visible from your office window right now, thrusting itself into the grey autumn sky among wisps of cloud, a proud red light shining at its very tip. And that's without even going into the phallic implications of Big Ben. The world even has an ode to the wonky boner, that lopsided erection that is the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Penile structures were just as abundant in the ancient world, of course – and while the humble yoni once had its heyday in certain parts of Asia, it still usually took a backseat wherever ornamental penises were involved. The Qatari stadium's resemblance to a woman's private parts may be unintentional, but I for one applaud it. Perhaps the bigwigs behind the design (no doubt all male) should embrace this so-called faux pas and rebrand it as a deliberate nod towards the increasingly liberal Qatari policies concerning women in sport. In a world where sport and vaginas very rarely come together with such prominence (see: every UK female footballer's salary versus every UK male footballer's salary), this can only be a good thing. And after all, why not have 45,000 people crammed inside a woman's reproductive system? It's not like they haven't been there before. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/18/qatar-accidental-vagina-stadium-al-wakrah-world-cup-stadium