"TomTom" wrote in message
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> Peter Jason wrote:
>> "TomTom" wrote in message
>> news:gceh04$ctr$1@news.albasani.net...
>>> Peter Jason wrote:
>>>> "TomTom" wrote in message
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>>>>> Peter Jason wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stay away from lawyers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Very sensible. Stay away from doctors, too.
>>>>>
>>>>>> especially when confronted by "matters of principle":
>>>>>
>>>>> Absolutely!
>>>>>
>>>>>> this overworked concept caused the
>>>>>> 20th century's two world wars,
>>>>>
>>>>> How did "matters of principle" cause WW1 and WW2?
>>>>>
>>>>>> the Vietnam war,
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe, but don't blame lawyers for that.
>>>>>
>>>>>> endless cold-war brawls,
>>>>>
>>>>> Since the cold war ended with the disintegration of
>>>>> the
>>>>> USSR, the description od "endless" seems a tad
>>>>> inaccurate.
>>>>>
>>>>>> and now all the BS in Asia Minor.
>>>>>
>>>>> Which particular BS in Asia Minor do you attribute to
>>>>> matters of principle?
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have survived to tell thee!
>>>>>
>>>>> More's the pity.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I forgot.
>>>
>>> It's chronic.
>>>
>>>> Lawyers are the most damnably argumentative lot!
>>>
>>> That will be $1,500, plus GST, please.
>>
>>
>> This might be a good time to remove my nom de plume. My
>> real name is Simon Shallowpocket!
>
>
> That's perfectly all right. My long and detailed legal
> advice was carefully crafted to include a fundamental flaw
> which effectively reverses what you wanted to achieve.
> When you set it in motion, it will blow up in your face,
> metaphorically speaking.
I see this a typical ploy concocted to send me rushing into
the arms of some lawyer and engaging him. Thereafter you &
he will conspire to inflate the contention with the usual
result of lawyers' enrichment. But I am aware of these
filthy tricks and I retire to the smallest room of the house
to give your epistles the attention they deserve!
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