BS: Which witch is which?

Subject: BS: Which witch is which?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Dec 09 - 05:37 PM

Eye of newt, wing of lawyer....

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Dec 09 - 06:15 PM

That gavel certainly looked well rested.

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: Amos
Date: 10 Dec 09 - 06:32 PM

My GOO'ness what some folks won't turn up doing just to take a poor man's money away.

Now how do you suppose she convinced that poor man, with all that money, that she really WAS a witch?? After all he must have been a smart man.

I shake my head in wonder at the uncharted depths of human dumbassedness....


A

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Dec 09 - 06:49 PM

Amos-

Evidently there is no limit to how dumb one can behave.

Of course there are no photos with the article so we have no idea of how bewitching she looked.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Dec 09 - 06:50 PM

HahahaHAAAHAHAA

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: Rowan
Date: 10 Dec 09 - 07:32 PM

Which reminds me of the bloke who, driving up the Hume Hwy, picked up a young lady who was hitchhiking. During the conversation she said she was a witch.

"Prove it!" said the bloke.

So she put her hand on his knee and he turned into a motel.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Dec 09 - 08:08 PM

Rowan-

Amazing.

But could she spell as well?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 02:44 AM

Rowan - well that's considerably more upmarket than the English version I heard, when he just turned into a layby!

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 06:10 AM

Which craft?...capitalism - Steinbeck, in Grapes of Wrath, said it was "glorified theft".

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 09:26 AM

Not at the moment, but it's -12F.

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 09:47 AM

"Now how do you suppose she convinced that poor man, with all that money, that she really WAS a witch?? After all he must have been a smart man."

The article doesn't give the man's age. Was he 40? 80? 90? Does he have health problems? Is he a stroke victim? Given the paucity of information, he could be any of these.

Whenever we read the news, it is important to note what's NOT there as well as what IS there.

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 10:02 AM

Even putting his possible age aside, just being a lawyer doesn't necessarily tell how smart he might be. Yes, presumably he got through law school, but that's very largely a result of being able to read and memorize, and lots of dogged persistence.

In my nearly fifty years working in and around the courts I've known a number of lawyers who raised the question, "How in the world did he ever get through law school?"

And then there's the proverbial "You can't cheat an honest man." The drive to gain by taking unfair advantage of someone can law one open to being defrauded.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: Amos
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 10:25 AM

David:

I was being just a tad sarcastic in my characterization of him.

Just because someone is bewitching is no reason to believe they are a witch!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 01:08 PM

:~(

~s~

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 01:57 PM

Grief can make a person desperate for contact with the one lost.

Intelligence has little to do with it.

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 02:00 PM

Alzheimer's might.

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: Amergin
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 02:55 PM

Greed....

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 03:40 PM

I know that there's some truth to "You can't cheat an honest man", obviously based in how easy it is to cheat someone with more greed than disgression. But on the balance it's a shallow, cynical "maxim". The woods are full of scum preying on aged and vulnerable, or otherwise guiless and trusting, people.

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 04:00 PM

You got that right Froggy... I just put the boots to one trying to mess my 83 year old mum over.

My aunt is 85 and she has been scammed "somewhat" by handymen working on her property lately, but I can't interfere because her daughter is "in charge" of getting things done and she knows everything... by phone... 3000 miles away. I get so pissed off but I gotta keep my mouth shut. If it was big bucks, I would put in my two cents, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Which witch is which?
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Dec 09 - 05:16 AM

a load of warlocks if you ask me.............