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Respected tacher Nick Dyrenfurth just sent me another legal threat. Apparently I have until 9am Monday to comply with his comment-removal orders or he will soo me for awl mi munny.

(As a general rule, it may be assumed that legal threats delivered after midnight have not followed serious litigation advice from an actual lawyer. I’d counsel other bloggers not to be alarmed by such threats.)

Posted by Tim B. on 07/17/2006 at 10:49 AM
  1. One does not waste one’s precious time on spelling when one is in possession THE TRUTH!

    So be forwarmd!  His layers are coming afater u!

    Posted by Patricia on 2006 07 17 at 11:12 AM • permalink

  2. A man’s most precious possession is his reputation, after money.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2006 07 17 at 11:34 AM • permalink

  3. Being but a poor academic, I doubt that he can afford a lawyer, in which case his brief will go nowhere. Courts are very particular about spelling, formatting, and accuracy in general, so if Drearyforth attempts to write the complaint himself, he’ll probably wind up trying to replevin   comments stolen by Tim Lambert, or maybe accusing Tim Blair of character “assignation”. The firm of Paco, Paco, Paco & Paco continues to believe that this litigant’s threat is just so much brutum fulmen.

    Posted by paco on 2006 07 17 at 11:44 AM • permalink

  4. I love this shit! Can we get a 9am countdown clock put up on the site or something?

    Posted by James Waterton on 2006 07 17 at 11:55 AM • permalink

  5. You’d think a man so well versed in the 3Rs (readin, riten, and rithmatic) such as Nick would have a little thicker skin, what with tachin all them yungins all day a feller like that oughtin to have little more patience.  I’ve seen Nazis with a longer fuse than this guy.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2006 07 17 at 11:58 AM • permalink

  6. Have punched in all of most of THE Nick Dyrenfurthisms, into Paco’s Patented Word Search Formulating And Level of Illteracy Machine, based on an undisclosed floor, in an undisclosed location in and or around the U.S. National Security Agency.

    The answer just did arrive, handed to me by A male and A female, dressed in nondescript clothing, with panty hose portions covering their faces.

    As I opened this double sealed envelope, using real seals….I could see the ‘agents’ eyes, close to narrow slits….mainly because I had just farted. AND man, it was a ripper.

    The answer is…Wht teh fkcu is tihs illterit, takling abut?

    Posted by El Cid on 2006 07 17 at 12:01 PM • permalink

  7. #6. Ladies and Gentlemen! There you have it: scientific, lab-tested evidence that Dyrenfurth is a dyslexic academia nut!!

    Posted by paco on 2006 07 17 at 12:07 PM • permalink

  8. Poor Nick must have a 1” dick.

    Posted by swassociates on 2006 07 17 at 12:07 PM • permalink

  9. Oh and, as one can see Paco in his brilliance deliberately misspelled illiteracy (Illteracy), to throw off ANY of those trying to find where the Paco’s Patented Word Search Formulating And Level of Illteracy Machine is based.

    Posted by El Cid on 2006 07 17 at 12:10 PM • permalink

  10. Monash Uni, eh? I was sure, from the context, that it must have been Harvard or Yale.

    General Monash must be rolling in his grave while keeping track of current events.

    Posted by cottus on 2006 07 17 at 12:15 PM • permalink

  11. As THE head of the highly secretive Paco’s Patented Word Search Formulating And Level of Illteracy Machine Ladies and Gentlemen! “Ladies and Gentlemen! There you have it: scientific, lab-tested evidence that Dyrenfurth is a dyslexic academia nut!!

    Has spkoen.

    Please do remember the motto of dyslexia…Dsylecxis Of Teh Wrold, Untie.

    Posted by El Cid on 2006 07 17 at 12:20 PM • permalink

  12. 9:00 a.m. Berlin time?

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 07 17 at 12:25 PM • permalink

  13. First, Nick needs to get a life.  Then he should get a clue.

    Finally, he needs to get a dictionary.  Or use a spell checker.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 17 at 12:36 PM • permalink

  14. I think there’s a loophole. Is the legal threat or writ, or whatever, made out to “Tim Blair” or to “Horatio Moondog IV”? You might be able to get out of this unscathed, Horatio.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 07 17 at 12:46 PM • permalink

  15. Drearyforth!  Hah!  Paco, will you marry me?

    You’d think littledick Nick would learn by now.  Threaten the Timosphere and you call down the wrath of the Comment Gods.  Or should I say Comnent Dogs?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 07 17 at 12:50 PM • permalink

  16. RebeccaH

    Paco, will you marry me?

    Paco just informed our office through special cryptic messaging technology, that YES he would be most happy to do so.

    AS soon as he clears up a few dozen things….:).

    Posted by El Cid on 2006 07 17 at 01:23 PM • permalink

  17. #12: 9:00 a.m. Berlin time? Ooooooo!! Andycanuck: unindicted co-conspirator!


    #15: Paco, will you marry me?

    It’d be an honor, ma’am. But although my wife’s pretty broadminded, she ain’t quite as broadminded as all that.

    Motion before the house: that we officially style ourselves, henceforth, as “Comnent Dogs”.

    Posted by paco on 2006 07 17 at 01:33 PM • permalink

  18. Thanks for the warning, paco, but I’ve got some armed maple trees around the house to take care of anybody trying to serve papers on me. I just wish I still had the birch, but it was too unstable even to use as a watch-tree.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 07 17 at 01:39 PM • permalink

  19. #17, well, I just thought I’d ask.  I suppose my husband wouldn’t want to pay for the wedding anyway.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 07 17 at 01:42 PM • permalink

  20. Ha! It’s my comment he wants removed! Suck my balls, Dyrenfurth, you little bitch, and you can add that to your litigation to-do list.

    Posted by Amos on 2006 07 17 at 02:16 PM • permalink

  21. Hmmmm.

    @ Tim Blair

    Dear Sir,

    Your continued use of the letter “u” deeply offends me and is evidence of a dangerous predilection towards potential for possible violent thought against my family.  I cannot allow this to occur so you can consider this a legal statement from a lawyer, regardless of whether or not it is so, and thus be bound by it no matter what that icky paco says.

    So remove all instances of the letter “u” by midnight or face the Wrath of Skeletor!

    ...

    lol.

    Posted by memomachine on 2006 07 17 at 02:30 PM • permalink

  22. So remove all instances of the letter “u” by midnight or face the Wrath of Skeletor!

    Now, that’s funny! I wonder how much longer the Pileated One will be pecking futilely on Tim’s roof? Amos, maybe you should just deliver yourself into Dairyfart’s hands for summary justice.

    Posted by paco on 2006 07 17 at 02:43 PM • permalink

  23. Woof!

    Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 17 at 03:19 PM • permalink

  24. #23: Or “Fwoo!”, as the spelling-challenged Mr. Dyrenfurth would have it.

    Posted by paco on 2006 07 17 at 03:30 PM • permalink

  25. Don’t you think you are all being overly nasty to ND?

    Just how well could you spell and know the laws of the land when you were 12?

    Hmmmmm?

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 07 17 at 03:51 PM • permalink

  26. Was that 9AM this morning or some sort of business 9AM like the Rove indictment?  I mean, you don’t seem to be very clear on this.

    9AM your local time, or 9AM GMT?  On some specific Monday?  Or just some Monday.

    Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 07 17 at 04:08 PM • permalink

  27. To all comnent dogs:  You wiped the brilliant wittism I had invented for the occasion from my mind and forced me to concentrate on not peeing my pants instead.  It was the most brilliant thing I would ever had said if you hadn’t done this to me.  I hope you are ashamed.

    Because of this insulation to my disputation as a respected comnent dog miselves, I plan to sew all yall.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 07 17 at 04:52 PM • permalink

  28. communicating after midnight - you’re either horny, angry or in love with the world AND DEFINITELY ALONE AND DRUNK

    Posted by spyder on 2006 07 17 at 05:07 PM • permalink

  29. In #27, I rote “brilliant wittism”.  I mint to rote wittism remark. Sorey.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 07 17 at 05:15 PM • permalink

  30. Tim, I’m sure with about 6 minutes to go you are trembling in your boots.

    Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 07 17 at 06:55 PM • permalink

  31. Tim, I’m sure with about 6 minutes to go you are trembling in your boots.

    It’s going to be written in crayon on a torn-out sheet of lined notebook paper.

    “Tim Bliar i am sewing you for won milyun dolers sinceerly Nick Dryunfourth Dyrunfort Nick.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 07 17 at 07:29 PM • permalink

  32. There was a story yesterday that Uni lecturers can’t teach, or at least have not been taught to teach see: Lecturers

    Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 07 17 at 07:50 PM • permalink

  33. As a general rule, it may be assumed that legal threats delivered after midnight have not followed serious litigation advice from an actual lawyer.

    How dare you mock Pyjama Lawyers!

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 07 17 at 08:03 PM • permalink

  34. I think he’s being counselled by the law firm of Yellowtail, Shiraz and Syrah…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 17 at 08:04 PM • permalink

  35. The threat was delivered after midnight? Nick’s reading speed is down there with his spelling.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 07 17 at 09:11 PM • permalink

  36. I shouldn’t try to figure out timezones at this hour, but am I understanding this correctly that stupid Nicky demanded a Monday 9am deadline in an email sent on early Tuesday morning (going by the post timestamp and Tim’s “after midnight” comment)...?

    Posted by PW on 2006 07 17 at 09:11 PM • permalink

  37. #30 & #36
    I assumed the same. Perhaps Nick Dyrenfurth is so serious about his impending legal action that he wanted to give Tim no choice in avoiding being sued by making his deadline one that had already passed.
    Personally I’m hoping Nick keeps the threats coming. I’m always optomistic that somebody some day will provide me with more mirth than Thom Lyons and his legal threat antics.

    Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 07 17 at 09:29 PM • permalink

  38. #32 The PHd responds to a question as to why she intends gaining an actual teaching qualification:
    “I thought it would be a positive step to get promotions…”
    Hopefully they’ll work on her English too.

    Posted by 81Alpha on 2006 07 17 at 09:37 PM • permalink

  39. #8
    Nope, must have two - couldn’t get that silly playing with one.

    Posted by kae on 2006 07 17 at 10:54 PM • permalink

  40. So, rather than providing an intelligent response to putdowns of the socialist agenda (I know: an impossibility), the guy threatens a lawsuit over a completely misunderstood comment. Is this the best the Left can do nowadays? These clowns are beyond parody.

    Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2006 07 17 at 11:00 PM • permalink

  41. And these are the folks always bitching about their dissent being crushed, Tommy. For a “reality-based community”, they’ve got a shitload of cognitive dissonance.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 07 17 at 11:51 PM • permalink

  42. Heaven forbid these academicians ever had to survive in the real world.

    Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2006 07 17 at 11:59 PM • permalink

  43. PW — Because of the International Date Line, the deadline is two weeks from last Thursday… unless this is a leap year.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 18 at 12:36 AM • permalink

  44. #21 U wish.
    Gimme,gimme gimme a threat after midnight…

    Posted by crash on 2006 07 18 at 09:46 AM • permalink

  45. Wasn’t it Patrick O’Brian who wrote that life as a schoolmaster unfitted one for the company of grown men?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 18 at 10:45 PM • permalink

  46. Fer chrissake, TB put us out of our misery.  Are you in the slammer, or not?

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 07 18 at 11:20 PM • permalink

  47. #45 SCD

    Wasn’t it Patrick O’Brian who wrote that life as a schoolmaster unfitted one for the company of grown men?

    I don’t know about O’Brian but my dad used to say that the problem with a school teacher is that he is a man amongst boys and a boy amongst men.

    I suspect we are seeing something of that with little Nicky.

    Posted by Wand on 2006 07 19 at 06:25 AM • permalink

  48. Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, teach teachers.

    Posted by JAFA on 2006 07 19 at 05:19 PM • permalink

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