Go with the avalanche! The avalanche!
This is an easy one. Throw rock; it beats everything.
I wonder if either attorney is going to try and bring in a ringer?
3: That's the avalanche, but paper beats rock.
Does one (1) game of Rock, Paper, Scissors mean one game = one round, or one game=up to three rounds, first to win two rounds takes it.
Also, if you've never played drinking Rock, Paper, Scissors you haven't lived.
6: Like hell! Rock squishes paper.
9: Yeah, whoever created this game must never have used a paperweight.
There is only one force that can defeat Rock, and it is Bigger Rock. But no, that is merely a legend... spoken of only in whispers.
Anyhow, the standard three-option game is for wusses.
Yeah, but logicallly that's kind of stupid, as covering a rock with paper doesn't actually damage the rock in any way.
Covering Rock only makes Rock cozy and warm, strengthening Rock for the battle to come.
16: Rocks are impervious to cold. Well, maybe really extreme cold, but in that case, a piece of paper won't help.
Pen missile!
Just in case there's some sad soul who didn't see it the first time around.
Mounds and mounds of paper sit on my desk, covering rock and making it completely unusable because you can't find it.
Packing tape! Rawr! Packing tape beats rock!
This is a good example of what's known as the Bart S. fallacy:
Lisa's brain: Poor predictable Bart. Always takes `rock'.
Bart's brain: Good ol' `rock'. Nuthin' beats that!
13: I'm afraid RPS25 has logical flaws of its own. How does Bowl defeat Water by "containing" it? Doesn't Water want to be in one place so it won't just dribble away? Why is Sponge cleaning Gun a bad thing for the Gun? Makes no damn sense.
21: But nothing SHOULD beat that! It's the WORLD that's mad - the WORLD I say!
LizardBreath, having litigated against someone from your firm, I have to ask: were you all counsel in this case?
In my version of RPS, you're allowed to play entropy, but you'll have to wait a couple of eons before you win.
26: Really Big Rock beats World.
Water and rock, though, beat hard drive.
27: I don't actually know -- it got emailed around the firm, but that doesn't mean it was us. Could have been.
Since it's attorneys competing, I'm pretty sure they're both going to keep choosing paper.
Since it's attorneys competing, I'm pretty sure they're both going to keep choosing paper.
Wind not being one of the available choices.
Paper. More paper. Bankers' boxes of paper!
Did anyone else play "Paper, Rock, Scissors, with torture" growing up, or was that just me?
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Definitely rings a bell, J-Mo.
Paper. More paper. Bankers' boxes of paper!
For which they can charge $150 per hour for paralegals to arrange in chronological order in tabbed black binders. And then copy. And then rearrange by topic. With cross-references.
I'm amused that Sponge seems to beat Nuke. Did any one else see the episode of That 70s Show where they played Foot, Cockroach, Nuclear Bomb?
19: Wow. Thank you apostropher - I was that sad soul. I just laughed so hard I had to change my underwear.
I had to change my underwear.
You'll find this happens a lot at the Mineshaft.
Me, I stopped wearing underwear around here ages ago.
Who said anything about wearing a shirt?
Th-tha, th-tha, th-that'll be enough of that!
Saddam seems an ideal comic villain; anybody remember his appearance in The Dude's drug dream in The Big Lebowski?
This is what you get with lifetime appointments. It's like that 7th Circuit opinion (originally seen at Saiselgy's) in U.S. v. Murphy [pdf] that gives Ludacris a shout-out in a footnote on the second page:
The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch “hoe.” A “hoe,” of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music (perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Hayden’s response. We have taken the liberty of changing “hoe” to “ho,” a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps “You doin’ ho activities with ho tendencies.”
45: It's widely assumed (by me) that the footnote was written by a clerk and the judge didn't care to take it out.
Wow. This tops the ruling from a case in D.C. a few years ago in which the judge (also federal, thus basically untouchable) concluded a ruling on a similar pretrial motion with, "and it is further hereby ordered that the parties lighten up."
Do Guardian journalists read Unfogged?
(Apologies if this has already been picked up on a later thread; I haven't had time to read them all.)
"When people take rock, paper, scissors into their own hands, mayhem can occur."
You should probably go for rock then, as it leaves you in best position for the ensuing mayhem.
Back in the veldt, the Weinertribe was wiped out when the neighboring tribe developed pointy metal weapons and ye, they said, Let us go for rock, for rocks are better in mayhem.
But the children of the SCISSORS did pwn, and snipped...
never mind.
I think it's clearly going around the legal world, because I met a friend (at another firm) for drinks this evening and she was like "Dude, there was this case in Florida..." and I was like "wait! I know this one!"
But I didn't get any email about it.
I think it's pretty well known that I'm Jewish, Cala.
Don't go for rocks. Rocks is the new sucks.
