Degression No. 1: I'll See Your Yelling And Raise You a Giggling Lawyer
One time I had a case in which opposing counsel yelled and argued a lot. He also miscontrued the facts of the case, for example, the case was about apples and he loved talking about oranges. Hello focus. Maybe I wasn't that shocked that he yelled. Some lawyers sometimes use yelling as a method of intimidating others. Maybe he was yelling because he was passionate -- the miscontruction of facts kind of makes me think it was on account of intimidation. There might have been some gender and age issues too. I am a young female lawyer. No trust me people notice. (Once a client remarked that he wished I had most of his cases because I was prettier than the male lawyers that he worked with. I guess.) Well, opposing counsel yelled and I giggled made him focus. It was along conversations, so I giggled quite a bit. At the end of the conversation, opposing counsel apologized for yelling and said he'd talk to his client about the apples. I told the story to my acting coach and he said he thought my giggles was disarming. Cool.
In the words of Sassy Girl "he don't know me."
posted by Fun Time Kito @ 4/23/2006 05:47:00 PM
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Yelling to seem like you know what you are talking about--classic trick. It remains me of some churches I've been to, where the preacher thinks the louder he screams, the more educated on the bible he will seem.
Speaking of word tricks. I discovered that anyone can rap if they use: motherfucking bitch hoe, hoe motherfucker bitch, stupid bitch, stupid motherfucking hoe, or any variant as every other word. Try it! It never fails! Here I thought you had to have talent to write rhymes. As it turns out, these tried and proven words can substitute for a general lack of vocabulary. Get creative. Think of as many variants you can. Happy rhyming. Time to get paid, motherfucker.
Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? So you want to be a rap star?
The other day I had a conversation with someone ("MF") and decided that yelling was all I had. I told MF that yelling was the only way I could communicate at that moment and if he wanted to communicate with me in non-yelling mode, then we'd have to talk later.
Yeah, I'm thinking of making a (bleeping) career change. I already bought some (bleeping) g-strings and (bleeping) pasties. I think they are (bleeping) tax deductible.
When I start getting mother(bleeping) paid, my moms ain't gonna to give a mother(bleeping) (bleep) how dirty my mother(bleeping) mouth is, mother(bleeder).
Keepin' it real -- aiight.
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