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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Stairway moment
I can think of plenty of times I have flubbed answers to a question in court. I sympathize with Lauren Upton (Miss Teen USA) for being caught short. Those moments of ineptitude are usually followed by coming up with dozens of great answers
later. I've heard there is French expression that roughly translates to "stairway moment" - coming up with the
perfect response afterward while climbing up the stairs. Here are some of my suggestions for her:
- "That’s a good question. There may have been a discussion of the lack of
geographical knowledge at the department but I do not recall if I was involved. I may have been involved, but I do not
recall. I’ll have to get back to you on that."
- "Well Aimee, you can bet the Al Qaeda terrorists can find the USA on a map."
- "Let me be clear. I am not gay. I
never have been gay. Even if you were tapping your foot and reaching into and
adjoining stall in a bathroom in a Minnesota airport, you still can find America on a map."
- "There are many ways you can learn about the location of America. My sons
are learning about the location of America by helping elect me president of America."
- "There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know
there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
- "So, welcome. Let's give a welcome to Macaca here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia."
- "It doesn’t matter if they can’t find America on a map by my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."
Monday, August 27, 2007
We've got a law against that in North Carolina
Topping the list of scrotum-related stories today is this.
Here come da judge, here come da judge
Lawyer asks The Ethicist if he should blab about how a judicial candidate may have exposed him to herpes.
I don't know how I would have answered, but I would have tried to work the word "dictum" into my answer.
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