h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Happy Birthday MR

*hands over of Table-top Grading Machine - with built-in Plagiary Sensors. If you reverse its polarity, it doubles as an Errant BF detector.

*hands over much nicer which is a box containing four spare hours, to be used just as you please.

Happy Birthday MR, here is a bottle of Young's Double Chocolate Stout.
Good luck on the job Witty.

I will take whatever position does not have a smellfungus component, Witty.

[GDZ]

Shorthand?? How quaint. Don't they tape meetings and letters, or is someone on a power trip? Anyway, commiserations and patience.

I'm groggy. I was pretty much OK this morning, but by the time I was driving home I was starting to yawn, and I wasn't good for anything this afternoon. I need me a one of them non-drowsy pills.

Evening everyone.

Ben

I did quite well at placing the states. 21 mile average error. Mind you, I did the version where the states you've placed stay on, so it gets a bit like a jigsaw. I wouldn't have had a clue where to put Vermont, say, if it hadn't been obvious from the shapes left.

Happy birthday, MR!

Well I guess the big winner in the case was the defence lawyer.

Here comes the new house, new car and free tickets to Neverland for his kids.

Once again a guilty celebrity gets acquited. When will juries learn that a celebrity can do bad things also.

Courtesy

I wonder if you'd let your kids stay at Neverland - even if you were Jackson's defense lawyer.

Jackson has been Simpsonized. He's ruined.

Well it seemed to me that though he was almost certainly guilty of - ah - category errors and - um - a revisionist approach to his recent history, that the case really was not credibly proven. If the case wasn't proven, it wasn't proven. The prosecution witnesses were almost as flaky as he is.

Ben

Can he now sue for defamation of character? Mind you, the accusers don't have a bean to rub together (apart from all the incoming media money).

Personally, I reckon he's a sad-case that would give an analyst work for years, surrounded by a poor excuse for a family, scheming advisers and maladjusted sycophants.

Cynical

.....can't believe he got away with it....one of the interviewed jurors said no mother in her right mind would let her child sleep with a middle aged man.....but she let him off..the mind boggles!
.....the jury were shown 2 books of pictures of naked boys found in his bedside cabinet.... a middle aged man sleeping with kids....none of this is normal behaviour.

.....a reporter asked the leader of the prosecution if a child molester had escaped justice, he refused to comment....I know what I think!

>> a reporter asked the leader of the prosecution if a child molester had escaped justice, he refused to comment....I know what I think!

I think that a highly skilled American lawyer understands the libel laws as they relate to someone who has been judged not guilty in a trial by jury.

Ben

......there are times when a no comment speaks volumes.

Yes. And there are times when 'no comment' is the only legal option.

If he said 'no' the prosecuter was saying that his entire case was a cynical attack on an innocent man, if he said 'yes' then Jackson could sue him to hell and back for libel.

The prosecutor had no other option than to say 'no comment'.

Oh, and welcome to the Atelier, Strangely Strange, I know I've seen you elsewhere on the site, but I am not 100% sure I've seen you here before.

Ben

::does the tiptoe legalese dance::

The sad thing is this might prevent other victims from coming forward in the future. They will assume a similar verdict will happen. That is, if there's a possibility of illegal acts being committed. Ahem.

I think Strangely's been here before. But ducking in and out, as opposed to being here, bar the lurking.

......actually, I am not new to Lil's, mostly just lurk.

.....of one thing you can be certain though, I wouldn't let any child of mine anywhere near neverland , never mind in Jacksons bed....all this ''innocent love'' rubbish he comes out with is exactly the same excuse the kiddy abusers on BBC documentary last year, were coming out with.