Pretty much sums up stuff on the eve of a long weekend.  Happy Presidents day to all.  Thanks to the many who have helped helm our country to the be the best in the world. 

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HILARIOUS “not you” video from The Fighter…

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hatergonnahate:

Wiggid friggin huhlarias vidya Mahk!

I’m the one rebloggin’ this! Nawt you, nawt you, nawt you, and nawt you!

Great Vitamin Water Ad starring Gary Busey as a “Fantasy Football Attorney-at-Law”… if that type of law and title weren’t also “fantasy”, it would likely have been the career path I would have chosen coming out of law school! 

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Bill Murray & Rushmore… 2 favorites. 

In a story already making the rounds on the internet, Police at the Mexico City airport detained Roberto Cabrera, 38, and charged him with the trafficking of endangered species.  Why?  Well, they found 18 small endangered monkeys concealed under his clothing in a girdle; sadly 2 of them were already dead.

Get this- the monkeys, about 6 inches in size, were hidden in small sacks and suspended from the girdle and could fetch as much as $1,000 on the illegal wildlife market, which, like many other illegal markets, apparently thrives in Mexico.  The guy apparently bought the monkeys for about $30.00 ea. 

Thanks to ABC News for much of this information and the picture of the Titi Monkey. 

Why post this story?  Because I really like saying “smuggling monkeys” over and over again. 

Many thanks too www.glengoland.com, my buddy now living in Portland, Oregon, for capturing me in a sea of law school graduates. Many thanks to him for the help during school too!  

Continuing the BP trend this blog has taken of late, this video of BP executives trying to clean up a coffee spill in their office was too funny not to share!

Welcome back from the long weekend… to brighten up your day: The Muppets covering “American Women” by the Guess Who!

Hulk Hogan is ticked off after seeing this ad for Cocoa Pebbles (and he’s probably unhappy with small freakishly-strong white haired children wielding clubs too)! Hogan views the cartoon wrestler as a caricature of his Hulkster alter ego who gets his butt-handed to him by Bamm-Bamm Rubble, who, in fairness, was just defending his old man. Hulk Hogan is now sueing the manufacturer for allegedly misappropriating his likeness.

First off- I love the ad name: “Cocoa Smashdown” and the character’s name as well “Hulk Boulder” (apparently Hogan used this name early in his career).  I could see both being used in real WWE promotions! The complaint states that at the conclusion of the ad the Hulk-like figure “is shown humiliated and cracked into pieces with broken teeth, with the closing banner, ‘Little Pieces … BIG TASTE!’” Which is true… of course don’t forget that Hogan used to not mind poking fun at himself, see, for example, Rocky III!

Of course, Hulk Hogan is saying that the company never sought or received his permission to use his likeness to promote the cereal and that he has been harmed by the “unauthorized and degrading depictions in the Cocoa Smashdown advertisements.”  Does it look like Hulk Hogan to you?  I’d say between the looks and the name, there is little doubt who else it could be!

We’ll have to keep our eyes out to see what happens with this suit… or given what Hogan’s doppelganger is wearing in the cartoon ad, this speedo. 

Visit the Lowering the Bar article for more. 

RIP Phil Hartman

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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer

The team at the LawShucks blog came across this list of AmLaw 100 firms’ taglines, and noticed a striking similarity between two firm taglines:

2.  Alston & Bird: Leadership. Creativity. Results.
7.  Crowell & Moring: Experience. Creativity. Results.

As LawShucks points out, having taglines that are identical in 2 out of 3 words to a competitor in the same industry is pretty bad.  Of course when they’re touting their creativity, “it’s just horrendous”.

I’m pretty good with the mottos & the like, so if either of these firms wants to save some money and have me come up with a new, and actually creative, tagline, I encourage them to contact me.