# Today's Weird Earl **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 9, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117 "2007-07-09T23:20:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/1 "2007-07-09T23:20:40Z")
Never mind, I got it now. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/2 "2007-07-09T23:40:30Z")
I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/3 "2007-07-10T00:10:04Z")
Do you suppose that is the best picture he had to put up on his website? That he has other pictures of himself that are even MORE startling? I’d invest in a little photoshopping if I were Mr. Professional Lawyer Dude. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/4 "2007-07-10T00:35:47Z")
[QUOTE=Astroboy14] I don’t. [/QUOTE] If you go to the homepage of [The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/), and look down the list, you’ll see something called Weird Earls (a play on words of a weird URL). Click on the link, and you’ll see why someone might think this particular site is weird. ETA: 'Course you probably know all this and you’re just saying that you don’t understand because you yourself bear a striking resemblance to Mr. Attorney Guy. Or not. If not, I apologize. Or, uh, something. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/5 "2007-07-10T01:06:00Z")
I’ve always thought that, if I ever needed a lawyer, I should hire a Scanner. Now I know where to go. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/6 "2007-07-10T01:47:03Z")
Maybe he’s related to the Runaway Bride. ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/7 "2007-07-10T01:55:02Z")
Okay since people have actually responded to the thread, I’ll explain what I originally wrote and then deleted because I was such an idiot. So the description on the front page for the Weird Earl reads thusly: > [@](#): > > Need an attorney? Need one bad? Here you go. What I thought it said, and what I didn’t “get,” was: **Need an attorney? _Need a bad one?_ Here you go.** You can see how this changes things, especially after going to the link and expecting to see someone’s site proudly announcing he’d never won a case, or he had just gotten his license back after its 10th suspension, and instead all I saw was a terrible, terrible portrait. I was all, well the picture is AWFUL but how does that make him “a bad one?” This was puzzling me greatly, hence the thread. After reading the description again, I called myself a nimrod and changed my OP. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Betty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Guy\_Betty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Betty)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/8 "2007-07-10T02:01:05Z")
[QUOTE=missbunny] What I thought it said, and what I didn’t “get,” was: **Need an attorney? _Need a bad one?_ Here you go.** [/QUOTE] Ha ha, until I read your post above I _still_ thought it said that! ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/9 "2007-07-10T02:47:38Z")
If I ever needed a lawyer to prosecute a civil case against Starbucks for too much caffiene/making their product ‘addictive’, he’d be the guy I’d call. Tripler . . . Or to prosecute electrical code violations. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/10 "2007-07-10T02:48:38Z")
…or proctological malpractice. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/11 "2007-07-10T03:34:06Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] …or proctological malpractice. [/QUOTE] … or face lifts gone awry ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/12 "2007-07-10T03:58:06Z")
[QUOTE=missbunny] You can see how this changes things, especially after going to the link and expecting to see someone’s site proudly announcing he’d never won a case, or he had just gotten his license back after its 10th suspension, and instead all I saw was a terrible, terrible portrait. I was all, well the picture is AWFUL but how does that make him “a bad one?” This was puzzling me greatly, hence the thread. [/QUOTE] Well, I hadn’t read the any of it until I saw this thread. But when I read it, I was as puzzled as you were, so I’m glad you explained. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/13 "2007-07-10T04:31:58Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] If you go to the homepage of [The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/), and look down the list, you’ll see something called Weird Earls (a play on words of a weird URL). \ [/QUOTE] I never got that before. Shall I join you in the dunce corner, **missbunny**? We can have cocktails and chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/14 "2007-07-10T04:55:49Z")
Is there an archive list of all the Weird Earl links? If not, it might be good to start one. There are a few I’d love to look at again but can no longer remember the Web address for. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/15 "2007-07-10T05:26:09Z")
[Voila.](http://straightdope.com/mailbag/weirdearl.html) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/16 "2007-07-10T16:21:33Z")
Excellent! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-weird-earl/411117/17 "2007-07-10T16:29:11Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] If you go to the homepage of [The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/), and look down the list, you’ll see something called Weird Earls (a play on words of a weird URL). Click on the link, and you’ll see why someone might think this particular site is weird. ETA: 'Course you probably know all this and you’re just saying that you don’t understand because you yourself bear a striking resemblance to Mr. Attorney Guy. [/QUOTE] It so happens that I _do_ bear a striking resemblance to the weird attorney guy… in that we both have our eyes wide open! :eek: (I never got the Weird Earl’s = Weird URL’s until you mentioned it either…)