{"id":4918,"date":"2004-07-26T00:39:51","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T04:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/07\/26\/blame-bob\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:35","slug":"blame-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/07\/26\/blame-bob\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame Bob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1862'><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<P><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/delays.gif\" alt=\"expect delays\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">If there&#8217;s a significant decrease in lawyer billables this week, blame <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.legaline.com\/lawsites.html\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">Bob Ambrogi<\/FONT><\/A><FONT size=\"2\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">, who has turned his vaunted compilation skills to the topic of lawyer humor.&nbsp; See <SPAN><A href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/article.jsp?id=1090180158017\">Web Watch: Laughing at Lawyers and the Law<\/A> (<\/SPAN><SPAN><EM>Law Technology News<\/EM>, 07-26-2004)<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">Like the wise Ambrogi-san, <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/webusers.xula.edu\/dlanoue\/issa\/index.html\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">Issa<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"> knew the value of laughter:&nbsp;<FONT color=\"#42aac8\" size=\"2\"><STRONG> <\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM><\/EM><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>swat! swat!<BR>the escaping fly buzzes<BR>with laughter<\/EM><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><BR><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><\/FONT><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">crawl and laugh&#8211;<BR>from this morning on<BR>a two year old!<\/FONT><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><BR><\/P><\/FONT><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>a flea jumps<BR>in the laughing Buddha&#8217;s<BR>mouth<\/EM><\/FONT><BR><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><FONT size=\"2\"><EM>[thanks to translator <\/EM>&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/webusers.xula.edu\/dlanoue\/issa\/abouttran.html\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#42aac8\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>David G. Lanoue<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><EM>]&nbsp;<\/EM> <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><SPAN><SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>&nbsp;<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\"><EM><STRONG>one-breath&nbsp;pundit<FONT size=\"2\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><FONT size=\"2\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\"><STRONG>Amen.<\/STRONG>&nbsp; Lawyers should stop bemoaning lawyer jokes and humor and&nbsp;enjoy it. [<A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/03\/23#a1093\">See<\/A>, <EM>e.g.,<\/EM> The Simpsons and the Lawyers]<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><\/UL><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.legalhumor.com\/\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">legalhumor.com<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"> or <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.legalhumour.com\/\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">legalhumo<EM>u<\/EM>r.com<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"> &#8212; &#8220;u&#8221; decide.&nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/funplaces.gif\" alt=\"fun places\" \/><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If there&#8217;s a significant decrease in lawyer billables this week, blame Bob Ambrogi, who has turned his vaunted compilation skills to the topic of lawyer humor.&nbsp; See Web Watch: Laughing at Lawyers and the Law (Law Technology News, 07-26-2004) Like the wise Ambrogi-san, Issa knew the value of laughter:&nbsp; &nbsp; swat! swat!the escaping fly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1hk","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13716,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918\/revisions\/13716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}