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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1150 on: September 11, 2012, 06:07:17 PM »
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"Every female who has not been placed, can, by proper arrangements, demand to be married."


That's a "be careful what you ask for" situation if I ever saw one.  (Particularly if you live in the shadow of a psychiatric hospital.)
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1151 on: September 12, 2012, 07:59:15 AM »
My great great grandfather was commanded my Brigham Young to marry a widowed mother and her daughter.

I know right?!

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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1152 on: September 12, 2012, 09:44:55 AM »
My great great grandfather was commanded my Brigham Young to marry a widowed mother and her daughter.

I know right?!

 >_<
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1153 on: September 12, 2012, 10:11:09 AM »
Joking aside I think that would be a very interesting family dynamic to watch as a fly on the wall.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1154 on: September 12, 2012, 05:41:48 PM »
Well, the doctrine of polygamy was for welfare as much as for multiplying.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his work."  Comte de Saint-Simon

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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1155 on: September 24, 2012, 09:51:58 AM »
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The certainty is that your body will, in due time, grow old and eventually become uninhabitable.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1156 on: September 24, 2012, 01:58:50 PM »
Oh yeah? Tell that to the bacteria and worms waiting for you to die.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1157 on: September 24, 2012, 02:05:12 PM »
Uninhabitable for our spirits, at any rate (which was clear from context). I just thought it was an amusing way to put it.
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« Reply #1158 on: September 24, 2012, 02:42:54 PM »
Uninhabitable for our spirits, at any rate (which was clear from context). I just thought it was an amusing way to put it.
Even in regards to our spirits it's not true. Did Elijah's body become uninhabitable?
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1159 on: September 24, 2012, 02:48:21 PM »
Maybe you should take it up with President Packer, who wrote the article. :p
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« Reply #1160 on: September 24, 2012, 03:44:38 PM »
Maybe you should take it up with President Packer, who wrote the article. :p
I have issues with President Packer I would resolve first before that one.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1161 on: September 24, 2012, 04:27:23 PM »
Well, I'll let you two work it out.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1162 on: September 24, 2012, 04:29:17 PM »
Well, I'll let you two work it out.
Until one of us is uninhabitable then!
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1163 on: September 25, 2012, 07:24:30 AM »
Uninhabitable for our spirits, at any rate (which was clear from context). I just thought it was an amusing way to put it.
I like it.

I'm also a big fan of Packer.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1164 on: September 25, 2012, 08:11:55 AM »
I like President Packer just fine, but some of his decisions regarding church administration bother me. I'm sure that could be said of just about anybody though.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1165 on: September 25, 2012, 09:21:54 AM »
Uninhabitable for our spirits, at any rate (which was clear from context). I just thought it was an amusing way to put it.
I like it.

Me too.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1166 on: October 05, 2012, 01:28:32 PM »
A faculty member took the executive to task for using the word "meeting invite" in an email. He said that you invite someone to a meeting or extend a meeting invitation, but not a meeting invite. So I hopped on to OED (thanks to my awesome local library) and took a screen shot for her that shows that invite has been used as a noun since 1615.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1167 on: October 15, 2012, 11:58:32 AM »
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As used herein, the singular form of a noun or pronoun will include within its meaning the plural form of a noun or pronoun, and vice versa; the use of the masculine form of a pronoun will include within its meaning the feminine form of the pronoun, and vice versa; the use of the tense of any verb will include all other tenses of the verb so used; and the use of “and” will include “or” and vice versa.

She works hard for the money, so hard for it honey... (I am singing this about my job typing, and not to say "we did work hard for the money" and vice versa.)
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1168 on: October 15, 2012, 12:46:30 PM »
What the heck is that from, pooka?
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1169 on: October 15, 2012, 03:24:51 PM »
Plaintiff interrogatories definitions and instructions.  I'm afraid it might be standard for this sort of thing.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1170 on: October 16, 2012, 06:31:52 AM »
I've never seen anything quite like that before.  In fact, I think it disadvantageously adds a lot of ambiguity.

The point of interrogatories and requests for admission is to back people into corners.  The only time you want to be really broad is with requests for production (usually documents).
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1171 on: October 16, 2012, 12:45:53 PM »
It's a mistaken identity case involving the AP and the NYT (a classroom treatment of an actual case from 1998).  So a lot of it involves documents, photos, records, communications which include... (someone kill me before I continue)
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1172 on: October 16, 2012, 05:04:59 PM »
:zaps with taser:
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1173 on: November 06, 2012, 11:08:33 AM »
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“While this might be quote on quote easy to get, we make sure the families understand what they’re getting into,” Nutt said.
*wince*
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1174 on: November 07, 2012, 09:25:39 AM »
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