Peter Jason wrote:
> "TomTom" wrote in message
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>> Peter Jason wrote:
>>> "TomTom" wrote in message
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>>>> Peter Jason wrote:
>>>>> "TomTom" wrote in message
>>>>> news:gcbn8p$76t$1@news.albasani.net...
>>>>>> 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
No, you don't.
> this a typical ploy
Anything but typical.
> concocted to send me rushing into
> the arms of some lawyer and engaging him.
No. It means that, unless you pay your debt, the product will not do what
you want.
> Thereafter you &
> he will conspire to inflate the contention with the usual
> result of lawyers' enrichment.
No. That is just your paranoia running away with you.
> But I am aware
Nonsense!
> of these filthy tricks
I do not perform tricks.
> and I retire to the smallest room of the house
> to give your epistles the attention they deserve!
Who care what you do in your living room?
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