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The Common Scold is named after a cause of action that originated in Pilgrim days, when meddlesome, argumentative, opinionated women who displeased the Puritan elders were punished by a brisk dunk in the local pond. Believe it or not, the tort lasted until 1972, when State v. Palendrano, 120 N.J. Super. 336, 293 A.2d 747 (N.J.Super.L., Jul 13, 1972) pretty much put it to rest. But the thought of those feisty women, not afraid of a little cold water, has always cheered me up and inspired me. I first used the moniker as the name of my humor column at the University of San Francisco School of Law many moons ago, and revive it now for this blawg!


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TAG YOU'RE IT

Tag Ernie da Attorney has tagged me with an interesting task, a series of questions, hereby answered:

Four Jobs I've had:
1. Stringer for Rolling Stone
2. Cashier at Red Owl in Minneapolis
3. Univ. of Minnesota Hospital X-Ray Dept. night clerk
4. Solo practitioner for the most terrifying six months of my life.

Four movies I can watch over and over:
A League of Their Own
Morgan
Lilo & Stitch

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Housetv_1 Four TV shows I love to watch:
Any Yankees game
House
Anything (about baseball) on YES
HGTV

Four places I've been on vacation:
Cooperstown
Hayward's Heath

Munich/Oslo/Stockholm - World Festival Chorus with Luciano Pavarotti
The Bronx (any game is a vacation except Red Sox matchups which are work, work, work.)

Four tunes that play through my head:
Barber's Adagio in G
Mozart Requiem

City of New Orleans
Let's Get it Started, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Enter Sandman, Mambo #5, My Generation, Drop it Like It's Hot, or any other song played at Yankee Stadium.

Four favorite dishes:
Peppermint ice cream
Peet's Coffee
Jambalaya
My mom's macaroni and cheese

Four websites I visit daily:
yankees.com
Lawsites by Bob Ambrogi
yesnetwork.com
Al Nye the lawyer guy

Boomer_1 Four books I really love:
The Catcher in the Rye
anything by e.e. cummings
Studies in Classic American Literature by D.H. Lawrence
Perfect I'm Not, by David Wells

Four places I'd rather be:
Exactly where I am right now. (New Orleans)
Yankee Stadium, or any stadium where the Yankees are playing.
Lake Wonoscopomac
Any place with a good friend and a strong cup of coffee.

Four bloggers I'm tagging:
Al Nye
Bob Ambrogi

Silvia Coulter 
Larry Bodine.

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Gonna take off on a trip for the weekend. A leisurely weekend. But the weird thing is, that while I was out search for certain sites that would show me spots to hit on my way to where I am going, I found this interesting site and you would not believe how distracted I became from my initial purpose. I almost got so carried away, I almost forgot to leave on my trip. Could you believe that? I guess that site was a little more interesting than what I was doing or something reminded me that I was looking for this in the first place. Funny how the mind works.

Posted by: Eric | May 14, 2006 12:12:26 AM

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