[QUOTE=D_Odds]
Yes I have, but that was two decades ago (although one might consider consulting customer service work, but that’s probably not what you meant).
And yes. I get to visit cities all expenses paid as is…and I get paid for it. Bonus is that when I leave, I still have my dignity.
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A consultant with dignity? :eek:
[QUOTE=El_Kabong]
Not that I’m an expert on civil litigation, but after what I regret to say is extensive viewing of these shows, The People’s Court is the only one I’ve seen that seems to be conducted more or less along the lines of an actual small claims court.
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Yeah, pretty much. When I said they were all the same I meant that from a production standpoint, they’re very similar. Same basic set, same no-nonsense music, same sidekick bailiff (who is nearly always a different race and gender from the judge), same stupid cases.
I’m pretty sure that if you put a glass space helmet on her head, she would look like one of the aliens from Mars Attacks!
Actually, now that I think about it, I’m glad she’s on TV. I’d hate to think that she was still in a real courtroom, making judgements on real cases.
[QUOTE=Long Time First Time]
In a wishy-washy, bad-guys-finish-first world, Judge Judy provides an oasis of decisive, er, judgement. No long term lingering of niggling problems here, just rapid, absolute decisions and clear labels at the end of who’s right and who’s wrong.
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George W. Bush does the same thing, but he has the good sense to stay off television as much as possible.
Not to turn this into a Bush-bash, but it was right there.
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I’m pretty sure that if you put a glass space helmet on her head, she would look like one of the aliens from Mars Attacks!
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Makes me want to take up cowboy yodeling.
[QUOTE=Marley23]
As far as evil goes, I think Nancy Grace is as vile, frightening and demonic as anyone I’ve seen on television.
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Can I second that? Whenever I am zapping and I come across that woman I feel like my blood pressure instantly rises. I dislike that woman with genuine passion.
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I’m pretty sure that if you put a glass space helmet on her head, she would look like one of the aliens from Mars Attacks!
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Ack, ack, ack! ACCKK, ACCKK!!
AAACCKK!!!
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
My question is why do they have baliffs? These aren’t really court proceedings, they’re just game shows in televidion studios. What is the balliffs’ job on these shows? I doubt they actually have any security duties (the studio would have its own security people), so I guess they’re just props. They’re there to play Ed McMahon and laugh at the judges’ stupid jokes.
I’m also another one who wonders why more people haven’t told Judge Judy to GFY. Maybe they have and those segements just never get aired.
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The bailiffs are there to move papers between the contestants (;)) and the judge, and to break it up if fights start.
Oh, and Judge Judy sucks, but Judge Marilyn Milian rules!
Judge Judy is the Jerry Springer of the court room. Their guests are the bottom feeders of society.
Let’s face it, if these people actually went to court: a) they’d clog up the courts with their petty cases; and b) if the plaintiff won, they’d never see a dime from the defendant.
So let them sign on to some syndicated t.v. show where they can parade their stupidity around for everyone’s general amusement, all the while earning a couple thousand bucks so that they can go home and feel that their dignity was worth *something. *
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
Armed bailiffs at that. Like Rusty Burrell from Judge Wopner Days, Judy’s Petri Hawkins Byrd wears a belt and pistol. (Rusty from Wopner was bailiff at Manson’s murder trials, incidentally, while Hawkins-Byrd bills himself in appearances as “the world’s richest bailiff”- at least he’s honest about why he’s on the show.)
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My favorite Rusty moment was in The Case of the Tickless Clock or whatever it was called. Plaintiff complained that the clock repairman didn’t fix his grandfather clock. Defendant claimed he did. Wopner asked Rusty to bring him the clock so that he could inspect it for himself. On the way to the bench, Rusty drops and breaks the clock. Case dismissed!
That’s why you need those bailiff’s – for the Komedy Gold.
I don’t watch courtroom shows intentionally, since I’ve had enough bickering and nastiness in my life so far to last me forever, but once Judge Judy was playing on a television in, say, the waiting room of the oil-change place, and I was pretty impressed with her. One of the participants–I don’t remember whether he was the plaintiff or the defendant–had some kind of complaint about his car. I remember none of the details, just that Judge Judy asked him how much he was paying per month on his car, and he answered something like: “$350.” Then she asked him if paid child support, and he said he did, and she asked him how much it was, and he said: “$125.”
It was eye opening. Had nothing to do with the case, but what a dirtbag the guy was.
I believe Judge Jerry Sheindlin was at one time a judge on the New York State Supreme Court.
Some of Judge Judy’s schtick is meant to shake the litigants up a bit and throw them off guard. She does indeed no many of the tell-tale signs of lying. She knows that she is not a “truth machine.” But she wants them to think she is. She also doesn’t want them comfortable. (“Get your hands out of your pockets. Stand up straight. Look me in the eye.”) It would be hard to follow her orders and keep your lies straight while she is barking at you.
I think her bailiff’s name is Bert.
Also, nothing goes on the air that she doesn’t want on the air. She’s never left powerless.
[QUOTE=Mighty_Girl]
Can I second that? Whenever I am zapping and I come across that woman I feel like my blood pressure instantly rises. I dislike that woman with genuine passion.
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There’s a large billboard of her somewhere in New York City. When I saw it, I suddenly knew how the people of Tokyo felt when Godzilla showed up.