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Posted by MightyMoe on May 12, 2023 at 3:00 pmWhy is it that lawyers moving from a different region always seem to be clueless.
Just a frustrated observation today.
holy-cow replied 1 year, 2 months ago 16 Members · 45 Replies -
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Answer: They were born that way. That’s why they became lawyers.
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Why is it that lawyers moving from a different region always seem to be clueless
This is an excellent example of a sentence that has about five unnecessary words in the middle of it.
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Thread hijack alert: is this an economic slowdown indicator to see more frequent activity from James Fleming?
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I had one call me up two days ago and ask me about a cemetery on a job i did 18 years ago. He wanted to know if there were any graves in it. I asked him what it said on my map and he replied ” lands occupied for cemetery purpose” I said theres your answer and if he needed more clarity he should get a backhoe and start digging.
You just can’t make this stuff up
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@brad-ott Nope..Just semi-working today.
Got home after midnight from three days of corporate meetings in Houston last night, I have to fly to KC on Monday to present a “Lunch & Learn” at Burns & McDonnell, then drive to St Louis for an Edison Electric Institute conference Tuesday through Thursday.
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I took care of a client that was sharing my survey with the neighbor.
Each landowner has their own attorney.
Frankly, that each has their own attorney explains the problem.
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@mightymoe : There’s an old story about a lawyer who just got his degree and license and decided to move to a small town out west where he was the only lawyer. After about six months of writing wills and divorce papers he was out of work, so he invited another lawyer to set up shop too and the two of them had more business than they could handle.
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Allow four hours for the KC to STL drive. Roughly 250 miles with Columbia very close to the midpoint if you need a break. You might enjoy a short detour by turning south at Kingdom City to go to Fulton. Westminster College in Fulton is where Winston Churchill gave his famed Iron Curtain speech in 1946.
https://kchistory.org/blog/winston-churchills-kansas-city-connection
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And then there’s the old joke, “99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name”. I do know some good ethical lawyers. In my opinion the largest problem we, as surveyors, have with them is that they are advocates for their clients and we, as surveyors, are advocates for the facts and truth even if it isn’t what our clients want.
Andy
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How many lawyer jokes are there?
None. They’re all true.
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In farm country, the question is: “How many lawyers does it take to grease a combine?” The answer: “Just one, if you run him through very slowly.”
FYI, there are a great number of grease zerks on a combine. Finding every one of them can be extremely challenging. The big balers that produce all those big round bales of hay you see across the countryside are loaded down with grease zerks, as well. Most of them are in very unhandy places.
Two or three Summers ago, I approached a farmer to discuss the survey we were to do around his house. He was working up on getting his estate in order and was going to deed the house to his 50 year-old daughter. As I approached the big baler by which he was standing, I could see a pair of Levi-clad legs and a pair of leather work boots. Discovered that was his daughter, laying on her back, under the baler greasing it for use. This would not have been memorable in any way except for the fact that his daughter had completely ripped out the crotch area of her jeans. I saw waaaaaay too much panty material during my momentary glance in her direction.
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FYI, there are a great number of grease zerks on a combine. Finding every one of them can be extremely challenging.
In was probably 50 years old before I ever heard them referred to as zerks. We just called them grease fittings. When my father died and we were sorting through 100+ years of “stuff” in the barns I came across a 5 or so gallon grease gun. It had a handle on the side and about 3 feet of hose out to the coupling. I had never seen one like it before.
Andy
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I was filling grease zerks before I was old enough to drive the tractors. That’s what I heard them being called, so that’s what I called them, too.
Today I learned about Oscar Zerk. Read to the very end to learn of his other inventions.
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@holy-cow Oscar Zerk was for sure a cool guy, but whoever wrote “While still in his teens, he devised an electrically operated textile machine controlled by a then-unheard of punch card system,” is off the mark, in regard to the “then-unheard of” claim. Zerk would have been in his teens in the 1890s. Joseph Marie Jacquard around 1804 had developed a punch-card-controlled loom, and even he was building on the works of prior inventors. With improvements by others, Jacquard’s invention soon achieved major commercial success, about 80 years prior to the efforts of the teenaged Zerk.
By the way, the lead photo in the Wikipedia article below is a posthumous portrait of Jacquard, woven by a Jacquard loom. Pretty good for the first half of the 1800s (and I like the tool rack in the background).
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Once again this site has proven that one can learn almost anything sooner or later. From lawyers to grease zerks to the origin of punchcards for computers.
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@james-vianna this actually seems like a reasonable question. “Occupied for cemetery purposes” doesn’t necessarily mean there are any graves yet. Most cemeteries own land “occupied for cemetery purposes” that don’t have any graves in them.
If I was I’m court and asked, “are you certain there any graves there”, the answer would have to be no, if the only information I had was that note on the plat.
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@aliquot If that were the case I think Jim would have labeled it “Unoccupied, but held for cemetery purposes”
Hey, it is a lawyer thread:)
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