Directionless chit-chat of a contented lawyer

Corporate Blawg has returned from his hols in Norway.  There, he used cross-country skis to cross at least 2 km of country to a sheltered spot overlooking a frozen Fjord.  At this spectacular site he burnt some logs with his brother-in-law and further fed the fire with fallen frankfurters and melted marshmallows.  Fortunately the snow kept the beer cool so all was not lost to their ashened faces.

Throughout this Scandinavian sally, it was of great amusement to Corporate Blawg that in Norwegian a "bash" means dropping the kids off at the pool.  There will come a day when Corporate Blawg invites you to his Birthday Bash, where he will Bish-Bash-Bosh his drinks until he bashes into a door and slips over. Corporate Blawg had just as much fun last year, when choosing a cheesy crepe on a Parisian menu and eating his wife's crepe with extra chocolate sauce.  For the avoidance of doubt, Corporate Blawg does not regard himself as childish.

A high-brow Norwegian day was spent in the Munch museum.  Corporate Blawg has a particular interest in Edvard Munch having some years ago written a play in the german expressionist style (Ibsen-esque) about Munch, the father of expressionism.  This play covers the 4 most important years of Munch's life (1898-1902), where he falls in love with Tulla Larson, then he wants to break up with her, but she wants to stay with him, so she stages her own suicide to surprise him at her death bed and to make him realise he loves her, but he ends up shooting through his index finger in his left hand.  Much drama here.  Anyway, to make this play even more unreadable everything Munch says in the play is a direct quote from one of his letters or recorded conversations (albeit removed from context).  Anyone interested in attempting to read this work of painstaking genius should send Corporate Blawg an email and a promise to feed back nice compliments to warm Corporate Blawg's delicate ego.

Demonstrating an iota more of success in creativity, Corporate Blawg was happy to see BabyBarista in the Times Online.  Since Corporate Blawg usually only reads the ever optimistic Independent, Corporate Blawg will now have to go against his principles and delve into the Times for his next fix of this hugely enjoyable blog. 

Even more pleasing is that Nearly Legal has a training contract.  This delights Corporate Blawg immensly and Corporate Blawg wishes Nearly Legal many Congratu-hyper-con-maxi-mega-inter-uber-lations!

Also, in this itty-bitty kind of a post, Corporate Blawg has become aware that Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal to stay in the U.K.  His extradition to the U.S. for breaking into the U.S. mliitary computers will now be appealed in the House of Lords.  Gary has always claimed that he was looking for U.F.O's.  Corporate Blawg thinks this is a great story and, as long as Gary was not really trying to start World War 3 or anything dark like that, Gary has Corporate Blawg's full support. Corporate Blawg particularly likes the title of his support website: "Free Gary - or at least give him a fair trial in the U.K."

Followers of this blog will note that Corporate Blueg has been looking for comedy case names, but with no support, interest or encouragement from any other bloggers.  Imagine the sheer glee and ribulous thrill when on his daily legal update Corporate Blawg discovered T Comedy (UK) Ltd v Easy Managed Transport Ltd [2007] EWHC 611 (Comm).  Here we have the ultimate in comedy case names.  For anyone at all who is even vaguely interested, this case related to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road.

For many, the thrill may somewhat subside at this point.

However, on reading the detail-from-dullwich case, Corporate Blawg discovered that a Turkish factory from which garments of clothes are made is called "Bates Istanbul Tekstil Sanayi Ticaret ve Pazarlama Limited Sirketi" What a great name!  In his judgment, the judge wisely shortened it to "Bates".

Comments

[Nearly Legal]

Why thank you for your delight and, I think, your wishes, although I'm not quite sure how to take the significance of the link, you allusive pimpernel you.

I'm working on the comedy case name search, honest...

[Corporate Blawg]

The link is a reference to my chum who has the habit of linking prefixes together to emphasize his point. Needless to say, this pal works in marketting strategy.

Corporate Blawg is very happy for you, and looks forward to toasting your success at the LawBlog conference.

Best

CBUK

[Charon QC]

CBUK...Thank you for your excellent comment on my Friday 13th post... it made my day.

Did your 'informant' express a view / preference for smooth or crunchy peanut butter...?

I only ask...because if I am to take up irachibutyphillia... I would like to do it properly.

Given the lamentable performance of England at rugby, cricket, football
in recent months - Lord Sir Sebastian Coe could be persuaded to consider irachibutyphillia for inclusion in the London 2012 Olympics?