What's in an E-mail Address?
Nothing it may seem where some small firms in Australia are concerned, according to a reader of The Proctor (June 2002). Apparently, many small firms are putting down
e-mail addresses on their letterhead for pure decoration and it cannot be assumed that communications sent to these addresses will be read promptly. One classic response to why the e-mail had no response was 'the girl who works the e-mail computer is only here on Wednesday mornings'.

However, the serious consequence of putting such phantom e-mail addresses cannot be understated. A client, relying on such an address appearing on the letterhead, may send an urgent communication that is not attended to promptly, with dire consequences to the law firm and increase insurance premiums all round due to increased negligence claims.

 The Pun is Mightier than the Sword

Here's a sampling from some well-known names:

Groucho Marx: Time wounds all heels.
Edgar Bergen: Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist plot.
Max Eastman: One of the advantages of nuclear war is that all men are cremated equal.
Dorothy Parker: You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think [when asked to make a sentence with the word 'horticulture'].
Milton Berle's definition of a committee: A group of men who spend hours taking minutes.
Mae West: It's not the men in your life that count but the life in your men.
George S Kaufman: One man's Mede is another man's Persian.
HL Mencken: Television is like a steak - a medium rarely well done.
Oscar Wilde: Working is the curse of the drinking class.

And we end finally with a quote on punning itself:

Fred Allen: Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns. He ought to be drawn and quoted.
In Fiji They Do Return

Delegates to the recent LAWASIA Exco Meeting and Fiji Law Society Convention 2002 in Fiji, of which Law Society President Mr Palakrishnan, SC, was one, were housed in a Hotel in Sigotoka, one to two hours away from the nearest cities.

To get to the nearest city, Suva, delegates had to take a taxi. A signboard welcomed them into Suva as they approached.

Upon leaving Suva, the back of the same signboard bid them farewell and exhorted them 'Suva invites you to return again'.

Nothing remarkable about it, until one notes that the signboard stands adjacent to a well-known graveyard site!

 Enough Said

Truth is stranger than fiction. A court reporter in Whitehorse in the Yukon, reports that in a recent drunk-driving case, the prosecution's evidence disclosed that when the accused was asked to take the breathalyser test, he took the mouthpiece and started talking into it: 'Hello, hello, this is Mr Smith. Is anybody there?'