Althouse: "Would all jurors with last names beginning with the letters A through Z please turn in your forms?"

May 23, 2012

"Would all jurors with last names beginning with the letters A through Z please turn in your forms?"

"Great moments in verbosity."

29 comments:

Thorley Winston said...: Somewhere out there, there’s a juror who has a last name that doesn’t begin a letter from the English alphabet.; 5/23/12, 12:34 PM
Anonymous said...: Cher and the this guy wouldn't have to turn in their forms.; 5/23/12, 12:45 PM
bagoh20 said...: The artist formerly known as Prince would be there all day.; 5/23/12, 12:50 PM
bagoh20 said...: Ahh, Ken beat me to it.; 5/23/12, 12:51 PM
Amartel said...: Clerks. They're not paid to think.; 5/23/12, 1:33 PM
Anonymous said...: 3Pio could feel his oil boil from the obvious discrimination.; 5/23/12, 1:37 PM
Astro said...: Derrick would have trouble, too.; 5/23/12, 2:00 PM
edutcher said...: All the guys with names beginning in theta, psi, phi, and xi are exempt.; 5/23/12, 2:23 PM
Hagar said...: How about those with names beginning in æ, ø, and å?; 5/23/12, 2:39 PM
JackOfClubs said...: I'm sure there are some Bushman names that start with an exclamation point. N!xau is close, but actual examples are hard to find... probably because they didn't turn in their forms.; 5/23/12, 2:42 PM
MikeR said...: I'm wondering if E.E. Cummings is exempt?; 5/23/12, 2:59 PM
Chip Ahoy said...: I clicked the hyperlink with highlighted word Derrick and an advertising ran immediately where I was expecting content so I left.; 5/23/12, 3:11 PM
Tibore said...: Another great moment in verbosity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Etjd0lEpkk

And from a cartoon, too! :D; 5/23/12, 3:11 PM
ndspinelli said...: George Costanza wanted to name his son 7. An homage to Mickey Mantle.; 5/23/12, 3:32 PM
Dr Weevil said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/23/12, 3:37 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Some Swedes and Norwegians would not turn in their forms. Each language has three more letters after Z: in Swedish å ä ö, in Norwegian æ ø å. Would they be excused from jury duty, or would they be stuck on the jury forever?; 5/23/12, 3:38 PM
MadisonMan said...: Is it possible the clerk was making a bad joke?; 5/23/12, 4:00 PM
Astro said...: Sorry Chip Ahoy. I'm not responsible for the ad. But the clip from Fry and Laurie that follows it is pretty good imho.; 5/23/12, 4:02 PM
Jaske said...: THX-1138 will be taken into custody at a minimal monetary expenditure. Total operation cost: six thousand credits under budget. Congratulations. Be efficient, be happy.; 5/23/12, 4:04 PM
gadfly said...: So where did your son find this quote? Google doesn't have it now, although it refers to this Legal Insurrection post - which does not now contain this phrase.; 5/23/12, 4:06 PM
Rick said...: 3537. Superfluity does not vitiate.
Supposedly, per California's civil code.; 5/23/12, 4:31 PM
David said...: Jurors who can not spell their own names--stay where you are.; 5/23/12, 5:00 PM
Penny said...: Jury holding areas always remind me of airline boarding areas for large flights.

Filled to the brim with a bunch of unhappy people, they are!

Just think of the nice chunk of change you'd make if you got a dollar for every time someone looked at their watch or a clock.; 5/23/12, 5:18 PM
Dave said...: Someone said - "3Pio could feel his oil boil from the obvious discrimination"

Is it really that hard to figure out how to spell "C-3PO"?

And by the way, a whole lot of geniuses were so busy bashing teachers on the post about teachers in Janesville that they never realized that a "flier" is an aviator or a passenger on a plane or a bird - but it's NOT a FLYER.

(That's why they ask, "Can you use it in a sentence?" at spelling bees. Apparently, it wouldn't help with this bunch!)

So glad you're all smarter than those stupid, greedy teachers !!; 5/23/12, 6:16 PM
Ann Althouse said...: My son encountered the sign in person, in NYC, where he was called to jury duty.; 5/23/12, 7:22 PM
John Althouse Cohen said...: It was a verbal instruction, not a sign.; 5/23/12, 8:58 PM
Leon said...: My very first thought; 5/23/12, 9:22 PM
Methadras said...: 100% of all people will die. True fact. You can look it up.; 5/23/12, 11:33 PM
Known Unknown said...: And by the way, a whole lot of geniuses were so busy bashing teachers on the post about teachers in Janesville that they never realized that a "flier" is an aviator or a passenger on a plane or a bird - but it's NOT a FLYER.

Yawn.; 5/24/12, 8:54 AM