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You know your law practice is sucking the humanity out of life..
January 22, 2007 04:19 PM
...when a friend calls you up and invites you to the Burns Dinner and you immediately assume it's a benefit for victims of industrial accidents.
It's not.
Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796) was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland.
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Well, that too.
I've never met anyone who's been to a Burns Dinner! But I recall a phrase I read once, where a man was trying to describe the near-impossibility of a certain task: "It would be like forcing a veteran of many Burns Dinners to write a new setting for 'Auld Lang Syne'." I've tried it many times, and I always find myself noodling back to the original tune by the third bar.
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Or, when a good client and friend calls to alert you that a government agency is threatening a huge litigation and seeking an injunction against his company and it takes you a minute to realize that this is not a good thing.