# Things I want to say to or about alaricthegoth.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 6, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372 "2005-12-06T16:18:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/41 "2005-12-08T17:23:28Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#):
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> at the risk of hijacking the thread, the court, at least, is illegal under the governing principles of international law as regards the rights and obligations of occupying powers (even if we grant, which I don’t that the occupation is legal by virtue of a retrospective endorsement by UN).
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> The jurisdiction of the court, unlike the occupation and its bastard offspring, the successive temporary/constituent authorities, has never been ratified.
We’re both talking about the American court system, right?
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/42 "2005-12-08T17:33:15Z")
Sorry, Pirate. I’m mostly amused by your apparent relationship to the comic book version, who has the ability to induce emotions in other people by changing the expression on his mask.
I see your name, and I can’t help but think if the comic book version’s abilities would be considered trolling or not. Interesting character, getting a lot of work these days.
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### Author:  [@Cemetery\_Savior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cemetery_Savior)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/43 "2005-12-08T17:39:36Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#):
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> at the risk of hijacking the thread, the court, at least, is illegal under the governing principles of international law as regards the rights and obligations of occupying powers (even if we grant, which I don’t that the occupation is legal by virtue of a retrospective endorsement by UN).
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> The jurisdiction of the court, unlike the occupation and its bastard offspring, the successive temporary/constituent authorities, has never been ratified.
Now THIS is the proverbial “something new under the sun”! Have all of you Law students gotten tired of the stultifying boredom that so often accompanies case law? Are you tired of cogent wording and usage?
Try AlaricLaw! The boredom of Law combined with the tangled syntax of a Joyce!
Only $19.95!
-Cem
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### Author:  [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/44 "2005-12-08T17:44:32Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#):
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> A:Yet another bit of evidence to bolster the proposition that thc levels are exponentially greater these days than they were when I took the bar
So you do say you’re a lawyer?
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/45 "2005-12-08T18:23:41Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#):
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> I have never been sorry when I used preview…
Well, see, to get the full benefit of preview, you have to actually reread what you just wrote. Try that next time.
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### Author:  [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/46 "2005-12-08T18:44:41Z")
He didn’t say he _passed_ the bar.
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### Author:  [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/47 "2005-12-08T19:05:29Z")
> [@Ravenman](#):
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> He didn’t say he _passed_ the bar.
Maybe that’s his problem. Next time, walked _passed_ the bar, then post.
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/48 "2005-12-08T20:53:46Z")
> [@Ravenman](#):
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> He didn’t say he _passed_ the bar.
Well if he ever does, I hope I’m not there. Youch.
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/49 "2005-12-08T21:39:53Z")
> [@Sage Rat](#):
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> Well if he ever does, I hope I’m not there. Youch.
I thought that my reliance upon the stated data in drawing pharmacological conclusions implied that my performance on the occasion of the bar exam, whilst impaired, was nonetheless not so impaired as to remder my work product inadequate for the (admittedly loose standa rds of the Bar Examiners. As I recollect, fully 28% of those taking the exam in that cohort passed, so how hard could it have been?
I suppose I could have been saying that today’s dope is so good, if I had been smoking that I couldn’t even have found the room they were giving the exam in (I took no chances–stayed in the hotel itself, wisely…).
But no, in fact, I found the room, managed to plug in my selectric (we’re talking legacy word processing here) slipped out to the bathroom for a toke from tiome to time and passed.
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/50 "2005-12-08T21:45:24Z")
> [@Cemetery Savior](#):
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> Now THIS is the proverbial “something new under the sun”! Have all of you Law students gotten tired of the stultifying boredom that so often accompanies case law? Are you tired of cogent wording and usage?
>
> Try AlaricLaw! The boredom of Law combined with the tangled syntax of a Joyce!
>
> Only $19.95!
>
> -Cem
WE HAVE A VICE-PRESIDENT FOR MARKETING!!!
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/51 "2005-12-08T21:48:56Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> We’re both talking about the American court system, right?
No, I meant the iraqi court which is trying saddam.
I don’t know nothin’ bout no parking tickets.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/52 "2005-12-08T21:57:20Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#):
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> No, I meant the iraqi court which is trying saddam.
Oh. 'Cuz I was talking about the American court system.
> [@](#):
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> I don’t know nothin’ bout no parking tickets.
I’m hoping that’s because they won’t let you drive.
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### Author:  [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/53 "2005-12-08T22:12:14Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#):
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> I thought that my reliance upon the stated data in drawing pharmacological conclusions implied that my performance on the occasion of the bar exam, whilst impaired, was nonetheless not so impaired as to remder my work product inadequate for the (admittedly loose standa rds of the Bar Examiners. As I recollect, fully 28% of those taking the exam in that cohort passed, so how hard could it have been?
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> I suppose I could have been saying that today’s dope is so good, if I had been smoking that I couldn’t even have found the room they were giving the exam in (I took no chances–stayed in the hotel itself, wisely…).
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> But no, in fact, I found the room, managed to plug in my selectric (we’re talking legacy word processing here) slipped out to the bathroom for a toke from tiome to time and passed.
Or, there was some bitchin’ acid going around that day and the whole thing was a fantasy. Which might explain why the selectric was whispering the answers to you and the test proctor was a unicorn.
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### Author:  [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/54 "2005-12-08T22:26:00Z")
My theory is, he was bitten by a radioactive thesaurus.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/55 "2005-12-08T22:35:11Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#):
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> My theory is, he was bitten by a radioactive thesaurus.
My theory is that he is thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end.
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### Author:  [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/56 "2005-12-08T22:41:16Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#):
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> I thought that my reliance upon the stated data in drawing pharmacological conclusions implied that my performance on the occasion of the bar exam, whilst impaired, was nonetheless not so impaired as to remder my work product inadequate for the (admittedly loose standa rds of the Bar Examiners. As I recollect, fully 28% of those taking the exam in that cohort passed, so how hard could it have been?
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> I suppose I could have been saying that today’s dope is so good, if I had been smoking that I couldn’t even have found the room they were giving the exam in (I took no chances–stayed in the hotel itself, wisely…).
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> But no, in fact, I found the room, managed to plug in my selectric (we’re talking legacy word processing here) slipped out to the bathroom for a toke from tiome to time and passed.
[Markus](http://www.nbc.com/The_Apprentice_4/candidates/bio_markus.shtml)? Is that you?
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2005, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/57 "2005-12-09T08:38:27Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> My theory is that he is thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end.
Please.
they are straight, fat, king zigs(-two papers, preserving the vital resin to kindling ratio.)
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2005, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/58 "2005-12-09T08:47:35Z")
> [@Ravenman](#):
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> Or, there was some bitchin’ acid going around that day and the whole thing was a fantasy. Which might explain why the selectric was whispering the answers to you and the test proctor was a unicorn.
Ya know, its funny you should say that.
Now, let me say, categorically, I did not take any acid for the weekend of the bar, nor, for that matter, the two we,…the week before.
That said, I won the book award in Bankruptcy from Steve Reisenfeld with a final exam that was, in fact, informed (as it were) by more than the whiff of ergot.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2005, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/59 "2005-12-09T09:49:50Z")
Mr. **goth** , I do have to say that you’re handling this pitting exceptionally well and coming off, at least from over here, as a good sport. I’ve never minded reading your posts in that meandering-over-vocabulary-and-thesaurus way that you have, because you’re actually amusing with it. And I can see some of myself there too. 😛
So, in the spirit that you seem to be taking this (as constructive – I hope you don’t mind the free advice), just hang in there and every time you decide to post re-read what you’ve written and edit it down for clarity. Then do it again and again. I’m thinking on about the fourth pass you should be good to go.
Good luck.
~faithfool the long-winded rambler
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2005, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/60 "2005-12-09T10:31:53Z")
well, Iwasn’t going to go that far, but I will try and EITHER have a light on OR wear reading glasses, 'cause sometimes when I do actually see the letters I’ve hit they are like, a whole digit to the left or right.
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