[Agent K]People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it![/Agent K]
brujo , Here is a link to the Cecil Adams column wherein he shoots down the argument that the 16th amendment is invalid.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_127.html
Judge: “Mister James, do you have anything to say for yourself?”
Jimmy James: “Tubel-Cain?”
Judge: “The court finds in favor of Mr. James.”
fnord
The knight strikes at midnight. 
WooHoo!!!
I don’t believe you.
No, no, no.
The “Secret Code” is A,B,B,A - that way you get infinite lives.
The "Magic Word, on the other hand is “xyzzy”.
Oh, and I agree with Bricker. Also, JuanitaTech’s assessment of idiot frequency in random human populations is, unfortunately, correct.
Well, since I made the mistake of bringing it up, I better explain myself. Here read in the standard disclaimer and the caveat that the law may be different in your State or other jurisdiction or you might get a judge who is not the sharpest pencil in the box, having been appointed on a promise to never ever rule in favor of a criminal defendant.
The Statute of Frauds in almost universal. In general it says that the only evidence that is competent to prove certain kinds of agreements is a writing signed by the person you are trying to stick. In general the contracts covered are agreements for the transfer of an interest in land, contracts that are not to be fully performed until a year in the future, contracts to get married and, in some States agreements for the sale of personal property of a value of $500 or more. Pretty clear cut, huh?
The are however a number of exceptions to the S of F, loopholes some would say. Among the exceptions are oral agreements which have been partially performed–as when there is an ernest money payment, oral agreements on which the other party has relied to his detriment–as when I forego biding at a land auction relying on your promise to split the land with me, or when I make a deal to resell the land you have orally promised to sell to me to some third person.
No, that code just causes the game to start playing Dancing Queen. 
People, people, people…Bricker is a lawyer! It’s the lawyers who know all the cheat codes! Of course the lawyers are going to tell you that “there are no cheat codes”–if everyone knew how to use them, they wouldn’t be worth anything!
most don’t think it’s exactly secret, but most religious folk believe they have “the key” - does that count?
Does this mean that I need to throw away the 10 years I’ve spent doing and re-doing the math on my TOE?
BXMF!
Hijack: Spoofe, where’d that come from ? I vaguely remember the black cauldron having SOMETHING like that, but my memory is horrid, and it was like, ten, twelve years ago.
omg w4llh4x0r f4g0t n00b!!!111
W-w-what are you saying Brick…wwwhat d’ya mean…no such thing as magic?
Next he’ll be claiming there’s no Santa Claus either ! 
Actually… the third word that ends in “gry” is the magical code that unlocks everything.
I thought everyone knew this.
Problem is, no-one knows what the damn word is.
If you make something idiot proof, some one will make a better idiot.
(I read it on the internet today)
That may be the most insightful and funny thing I’ve read at this very insightful and funny board.
My own two cents is that there is a magic word that unlocks the justic system: Ka-ching! If you’ve got the cash to afford Johnny Cochran and Alan Dershowitz there is very little that can’t be done. Even if you have a clear motive, leave a trail of bloody evidence, and flee the police in your Bronco.
Plus the elites are all connected anyway. Any rich white guy worth his rich white guy salt knows the judge he’s been appointed and if not he knows someone that knows him. Country club chums, frat brothers, bridge partners, what have you. Not that this is a sure fire get-out-of-jail free card, but even in poor situtations it can turn 10 years at Chino for embezzling $5m into 10 months at Club Fed.
No rich white men were harmed in the production of this post.