Much as the pants guy is a complete dickhead, it is kind of fun seeing businesses get called on their hyperbole. OK, this one has gone way beyond “fun”, but in principle…
I very much resent your using that statement when
1- You know that I don’t speak French and are deliberately trying to invoke humiliation and mental distress
2- Had my direct ancestors not left France for Switzerland following the St. Bart’s Day Massacre and then come to South Carolina, they could well have been SLAUGHTERED in that revolution
I demand that Ponder Stibbons pay me $18 million for mocking me and $10 milliong for mocking my near ancestors, and that the SDMB pay double for each for giving him the opportunity to do it! Ponder: swear the mods insisted you do it and I’ll drop my suit against you and give you $3 mil once the mods pay me their $56 mil
Hmm. So far as I can recall, **Ponder Stibbons ** has never guaranteed to give you satisfaction, Sampiro. An omission which, considering your mention of a “little bit of pleather and a riding crop”, he may (or may not) be very glad 
Hang on a second: does that mean that he is implicitly confessing a desire to have the court impose a standard of unreasonable limits?
It’s an implied guarantee of satisfaction, plus as mentioned I don’t speak French, so how could I possibly know that the French quote isn’t a guarantee of satisfaction? Certainly there’s no “This is NOT a guarantee of satisfaction” disclaimer, which I think would be only reasonable.
There, I’ve run rings round you logically.
And with the pleather and crop, I’d rather have the $28 million all things considered. Or that judge’s pants (which I’ll bet the Korean guy is putting on every night when he gets home and laughing).
Dang and blast.
Ponder, I have some of Sampiro’s threads about “near ancestors” printed out. I am available as an expert witness for a reasonable fee and expenses (I have to go to Tahiti to prepare).
Oh, all right. I give. Let’s work a deal–
Hey, wait a minute! If you don’t speak French, how did you know that quote was French? Huh? A ha! Gotcha! Bet you didn’t think of that now, did you?
Dissing my critical thinking skills are we? I’m tacking on an extra $7 million… AND A SHRUBBERY!
Je suis désolé, mais je ne parle pas anglais. 
I fart in your general dee-rech-shion!
Bumped to update…Pearson is probably gloating, the ass.
Well, they do have another store; it’s not like they’re now homeless and indigent.
They had three, now they’re down to one. I can’t see that being a good thing…this stupid judge basically hounded them out of business with his frivilous lawsuit.
One can only hope the new owners have a “Satisfaction Guaranteed - Unless your Name is Pearson” sign up.
OTOH the lunatic’s case is featured in a “frivolous lawsuit” article in the new Reader’s Digest, making him an even bigger laughing stock.
I didn’t know his claim included some $5K for acting as his own attorney.
I don’t think Pearson cares about all the negative publicity. His goal was to make life a living hell for the Chungs, and he did. Pearson is so clueless as to file a $54 million lawsuit over a pair of pants that I don’t think the fact most of the world is laughing at him is going to register. He’s going to take the closing of their business as some sort of twisted validation.
I thought their attorney’s expenses were being covered…is there more heartache coming?
Having that $54 millon albatross around his neck during job interviews might do the trick, assuming he gets put off the bench and/or disbarred.
It seems that the good judge has now lost more than his pants.
Sometimes bad things happen to bad people. And I don’t mean the dry cleaners.
Summary of the whole sad mess for anyone that wants it.
May scorn and ridicule follow him all days of his life.