Welcome to the weblawg community, Monica Bay and The Common Scold! I’m looking forward to
your curmudgeonly take on legal technology and management issues (and the Yankees). However, I clicked right over, when I saw Bob Ambrogi’s pointer to your weblog — only to be assaulted visually
and aesthetically by that [expletive deleted] Flipping Rolodex, whose sponsor I have not yet discerned.
Will one of Law.com’s visitors have to go into epileptic fits before that darn ad is cancelled? (see our prior post) That being said, best wishes, Monica.
The ‘Lectric Law Library Lexicon has this to say about the term Common Scold
COMMON SCOLD – Obs. A woman who, in consequence of her boisterous,
disorderly and quarrelsome tongue, is a public nuisance to the neighborhood.
Such a woman may be indicted, and on conviction, punished. At common law,
the punishment was by being placed in a certain engine of correction called the
trebucket or cocking stool.
This punishment was abolished in Pennsylvania where the offence is now punished
by fine and imprisonment.
Would it be too cruel to subject a Scold to that Rolodex?
update (5 PM): Monica has emailed me to say the offending Rolodex ad (which is by SBC) does
not appear when she goes to her webpage and she’s never seen the ad (which has been all over
Law.com sites for quite awhile). Every time I click on Monica’s weblog, I get flipped. Life is unfair.
world of man–
even raking leaves
brings a scolding
Kobayashi ISSA
November 23, 2004
that flippin’ flipping rolodex – a nag for the Scold
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