# Please Join Me for the Pitting of LinusK

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 20, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722 "2015-07-20T20:14:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![camille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@camille](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/camille)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/552 "2015-11-07T19:55:14Z")

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> [@Lamia](#):
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> Do we have any particular reason to believe he ever did practice law? **LinusK** wasn’t really on my radar before he became obsessed with the evils of feminism, but I don’t remember him being in the habit of showing up in threads on legal issues to make informed-sounding posts. That I don’t remember this doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, but I can easily think of other posters who don’t just _claim_ to be lawyers but have made an impression on me as people who actually know something about the law.
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> If nothing else I’d expect someone who managed to get through law school to be able to comprehend the meaning of reports and articles written for the general public and form a coherent argument in support of his own views, and **LinusK** has demonstrated repeatedly that he can’t do either.

I don’t know him or any posters personally, but I remembered reading it somewhere a few months ago (I like to read the lawyers who post here):

> [@How accurate is 'Law and Order'?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-accurate-is-law-and-order/315078/70):
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> I stopped watching Law and Order and all criminal law shows after I became an actual lawyer. They’re so stupidly ridiculously inaccurate, they became painful to watch.

He started a thread last year asking if he should go to grad school for economics because he wasn’t happy practicing law:

> [@Should I go to grad school?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-grad-school/685491/85):
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> I’m sort of an introverted, intellectual type. Success in my field - financial success - depends a lot on marketing, advertising, and salesmanship. (Something they definitely don’t tell you in law school.) And some would say, just outright lying. These are things I’m not good at. And part of why I think what I’m doing is probably not a good fit for me. And why I’m looking to make a change. I can see my future walking the halls of the courthouse, and it’s not where I want to be.
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> Here’s some good elevator jokes lawyers like to tell each other:
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> What did the criminal defense lawyer say when he won the lottery?  
> _I guess I’ll keep practicing until I run out of money._
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> What’s your retirement plan?  
> _To be dead when I hit the ground._
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> The Zambia/Peru issue may be a problem at some of the other schools, other than UMKC, I mean.

He’s also answered some legal questions in a few threads. And he wasn’t always an anti-feminist, apparently:

> [@Scott Adams: Men's Rights Activists are Pussies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-mens-rights-activists-are-pussies/672081/66):
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> If fathers are getting fairer outcomes in custody decrees, I’m happy to hear that. It doesn’t surprise me, if it’s true. I think things _are_ moving in the right direction.

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