Making Sure Your Ass Is Covered

from the the-offense-of-defense dept

Wed, Jul 13th 2011 2:59pm — Nina Paley

Your dangerous ass
Point that thing away from me
Too many lawyers

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Dark Helmet (profile), 13 Jul 2011 @ 2:49pm

Now THIS is my kind of humor....

Love,

Captain Penis-Joke....
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- :Lobo Santo (profile), 13 Jul 2011 @ 3:30pm
  
  Re:
  ... can't beat a good joke about a ginger minge...
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Anonymous Coward, 13 Jul 2011 @ 3:45pm

Yesssssss haiku
I P redefined
to be Intellectual
and Posterior
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Zauber Paracelsus (profile), 13 Jul 2011 @ 3:54pm

Now that's an ass you don't want to **** with.
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out_of_the_blue, 13 Jul 2011 @ 4:00pm

No wonder you don't like "intellectual property"!
You're not intellectuals.
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- Anonymous Coward, 13 Jul 2011 @ 4:22pm
  
  Re: No wonder you don't like "intellectual property"!
  Yes, intellectuals never deign to laugh at lowbrow humor. They consistently keep their noses high and pinkies out.
  
  Snob.
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  - Anonymous Miss Manners, 13 Jul 2011 @ 4:48pm
    
    Re: Re: No wonder you don't like "intellectual property"!
    Ta! And we shan't read Shakespeare or The Golden Ass either. *shrugs daintily* ah well, Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre!
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- Marcus Carab (profile), 13 Jul 2011 @ 5:04pm
  
  Re: No wonder you don't like "intellectual property"!
  No wonder you don't like Techdirt. You're not dirty!
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  - Atkray (profile), 13 Jul 2011 @ 6:20pm
    
    Re: Re: No wonder you don't like "intellectual property"!
    Epic
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- btrussell (profile), 13 Jul 2011 @ 6:13pm
  
  Re: No wonder you don't like "intellectual property"!
  We don't like imaginary property because we are not imaginary.
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  - Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 13 Jul 2011 @ 6:21pm
    
    Re: Re: No wonder you don't like "intellectual property"!
    That's still an open question.
    
    I haven't yet ruled out that I'm not a dreaming butterfly.
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    - chris (profile), 14 Jul 2011 @ 7:47am
      
      Re: Re: Re: No wonder you don't like "intellectual property"!
      I haven't yet ruled out that I'm not a dreaming butterfly.
      
      your dreams are real. your exclusive right to sell them is not.
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Michael (profile), 13 Jul 2011 @ 4:09pm

I feel a new crunk song coming on...
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Spaceman Spiff, 13 Jul 2011 @ 4:13pm

CYAPE
Cover Your Ass in Plastic Explosives... Just don't fart!
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Anonymous Coward, 13 Jul 2011 @ 8:12pm

Nina, you continue to sink. Too much time, indeed.
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- Greevar (profile), 13 Jul 2011 @ 8:37pm
  
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  You post snide comments on a web blog to someone you don't even know and you say she is the one with too much time?
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  - Anonymous Coward, 13 Jul 2011 @ 8:49pm
    
    Re: Re:
    My comment took 30 seconds. She probably wasted days to come up with the toon.
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    - Jay (profile), 13 Jul 2011 @ 9:36pm
      
      Re: Re: Re:
      And have you created anything lately?
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      - Hephaestus (profile), 14 Jul 2011 @ 12:42am
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re:
        Me yes, do you want the answers to two of the great questions of all time??
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      - Anonymous Coward, 14 Jul 2011 @ 6:55am
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re:
        Yup, I create every day, thanks. I just don't need to come onto this site and try to prove it, nor do I have to swing from the trees to crow about it.
        
        I don't have an axe to grind, but I am happy to take Nina's axe and grind it back at her.
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    - Anonymous Coward, 14 Jul 2011 @ 4:12am
      
      Re: Re: Re:
      Not counting the time you spend hanging around here, waiting for someone to post something you dislike, just so you can take 30 seconds to post a "Yur st00pid" comment. And the time you take to respond to whoever is dumb enough to feed you (oops).
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- Anonymous Coward, 14 Jul 2011 @ 5:38am
  
  Re:
  "you continue to sink. Too much time, indeed."
  
  No, U
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Gene Cavanaugh (profile), 14 Jul 2011 @ 9:13am

Covering your ass
Ah, the bliss of ignorance.
At one time, it was the mailman - bringing bills you didn't want to pay. You didn't mind the people demanding payment, but that "G*d D**n mailman!!!" -
Then it was doctors, telling you that you were really sick (and tactfully not pointing out that you brought it on yourself with self-indulgence!) - G*d D**n doctors!
Now it is lawyers, INSTRUCTED by their clients to boilerplate their agreements - G*d D**n lawyers!
No wonder the guilty have so little to fear; after all, it is really the G*d D**n cops, isn't it?
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