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GREAT LEGAL HEADNOTES OF OUR TIMES
For divorce purposes, appellation "hillbilly" used by wife in regard to
husband's relatives was, in Southern Missouri, not generally an insult
or an indignity available to establish ground for divorce, but was an
expression of envy. Moore v. Moore, 337 S.W.2d 781 (1960)
CHALK IT UP TO NEO-CAPITALISM
[From a letter from a profeeors to the Annals of Improbable Research
ANALS OF IMPROBABLE RESEARCH - Crayola has made their chalk thinner. It
is not much thinner. But it is thinner enough. It is also shorter. I
went back to my office and found an old box with two pieces of chalk.
The new pieces are thinner, shorter and don't write as dark. It is
annoying. I was in the middle of a lecture and picked up a new piece of
chalk. The quality of my teaching immediately went down. I am not
joking. It was all I could do to not break down crying. I tried all the
pieces in the new box. They were no good.
Back in my office I checked the boxes. The old size was 3 1/2 long by
3/8 inch thick. The new chalk is 3 by 5/16. And the new box has French
on it. The old box said "Crayola Anti-Dust Chalk." The new box says "An
du septic Chalk".
I want my old chalk back!
http://improbable.com/2008/01/07/unhappiness-with-chalk/
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GREAT LEGAL HEADNOTES OF OUR TIMES
For divorce purposes, appellation "hillbilly" used by wife in regard to
husband's relatives was, in Southern Missouri, not generally an insult
or an indignity available to establish ground for divorce, but was an
expression of envy. Moore v. Moore, 337 S.W.2d 781 (1960)
CHALK IT UP TO NEO-CAPITALISM
[From a letter from a profeeors to the Annals of Improbable Research
ANALS OF IMPROBABLE RESEARCH - Crayola has made their chalk thinner. It
is not much thinner. But it is thinner enough. It is also shorter. I
went back to my office and found an old box with two pieces of chalk.
The new pieces are thinner, shorter and don't write as dark. It is
annoying. I was in the middle of a lecture and picked up a new piece of
chalk. The quality of my teaching immediately went down. I am not
joking. It was all I could do to not break down crying. I tried all the
pieces in the new box. They were no good.
Back in my office I checked the boxes. The old size was 3 1/2 long by
3/8 inch thick. The new chalk is 3 by 5/16. And the new box has French
on it. The old box said "Crayola Anti-Dust Chalk." The new box says "An
du septic Chalk".
I want my old chalk back!
http://improbable.com/2008/01/07/unhappiness-with-chalk/
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