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01-18-2005, 01:18 AM
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I'm just trying to flush out the (many) lapsed lawyers on our site, or maybe even lure Steven Sweeney into coming back to us. Learned Hand was a brilliant 20th century U.S. Federal Court Judge who said things like "Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers." It seemed to me appropriate, given the above quote and the handy "Hand" moniker, to name a quick-draw portrait procedure after him.
I think I am working too hard these days.
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01-18-2005, 04:02 PM
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I would think that if you were trying to lure me out from my monastic cave, it would have been through means of a faux spelling/vocabulary bee with another federal judge, Bostonian Bruce M. Selya, whose vocabulary has been variously described (
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01-18-2005, 06:12 PM
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'09 Third Place PSOA Ohio Chapter Competition
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Steven,
How I miss your verbosity. Hope all is well with you in that cave. Ya gotta stick your head out once in awhile!
Patty
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01-18-2005, 09:35 PM
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Never know when you're gonna need a word like struthious.
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01-18-2005, 10:31 PM
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I wonder if Judge Selya played Scrabble.
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01-20-2005, 04:57 PM
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The unmedicated mind never rests, but here I am, and I propose an amendment to my entry in the quick-draw naming competition.
A portrait can, of course, display much more than a head. Also, however composed or imagined, the portrait is significantly the product of a sure hand.
Therefore, substituting the Latin for hand, I offer:
Veritas manus (VAYR-'e-toss MAH-noose)
to denote such efforts.
Not only is it much more apt, but the initial assignment -- to somehow implicate Judge Learned Hand -- is fulfilled.
Q.E.D.
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