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HOME    WELCOME TO  LAWHAHA    CLASSIC 3-PAK  (from the Harmless Error Vault)    THE LAW SCHOOL TRIP    WEIRD LEGAL NEWS    STRANGE JUDICIAL  OPINIONS    FUNNIEST LAW  SCHOOL MOMENTS    WHO IS SUZY SPIKES?    WORLD'S GREATEST  LAW REVIEW ARTICLE    UNIVERSE'S BEST  PRODUCT WARNING    LINKS    MCCLURG BIO   MONTHLY READER POLL New poll! We've all seen them: those supposedly “real” excerpts from trial and deposition transcripts like: “Q. Doctor, did you say he was shot in the woods? A. No, I said he was shot in the lumbar region.” Some of them have been circulating for 20 years. A visitor recently wrote to ask whether they are genuine and, if so, why they never include citation documentation. Good questions. What’s your opinion? I think they’re authentic. I think they’re mostly bogus. If they were real, they’d include documentation. I don’t care whether they’re real or fake because they’re still funny. I just wish people would quit clogging up my email inbox forwarding them to me.	Harmless Error Classic 3-Pak (from the Harmless Error vault)      Here's this month's selection of Harmless Error columns: Please, Mr. Postman On Shelley’s Case Perpetually Clueless      For more than four years, Harmless Error: A Truly Minority View on the Law was the most widely circulated legal humor column in the world. It ran monthly on the Obiter Dicta page of the American Bar Association Journal — "The Lawyer's Magazine" — from September 1997 through December 2001 for a total of 51 columns.      During its existence, Harmless Error tackled a wide variety of legal and social issues from a point of view readers and reviewers described variously as "off-center," "eccentric," and, most frequently, "twisted."      Whether parodying lovable industries like HMOs ("Heal Thy Self" Sept. 1999) or cable companies ("Cable Cartel" Mar. 2000), or taking a trip from reality to analyze John Lennon's original legally-grounded lyrics for the Sgt. Pepper's album ("Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" June 1999) or the real fake story behind Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad ("Palsgraf Uncovered" Jan. 2001), Harmless Error forced readers to pause and reflect on important questions such as "Did McClurg's mama drop him on his head when he was a baby?"      Perhaps the most gratifying aspect of writing Harmless Error was the hundreds of email messages sent to me by lawyers, law students, law professors and judges saying thanks for the laughs. (Click here for a small sampling of Harmless Error reader praise.)      Even though Harmless Error is no more, lawhaha.com will continue to offer three rotating ghosts of Harmless Error past each month.      Selections change monthly.

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