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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

651.0. "Hypothetical Law Firms, etc." by VINO::MCGLINCHEY (Sancho! My Armor! My TECO Macros!) Tue Apr 11 1989 21:39

    
    	I'd like to develop a collection of names of hypothetical
    	law firms, accounting firms, etc. Some of these have 
    	appeared in other notes.
    
    	Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe	(law Firm)
    
    	Poppycock and Balderdash	(law firm)
    
    	Trickem, Dickem, and Dunkem	(law firm partnership of
    					 Richard Nixon, Gary Hart, and
    					 Ted Kennedy)
    
    	any others out there?
    
    	-- Glinch
    
T.RTitleUserPersonal
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651.1Scratching for our Clients!!CSCOA3::CONWAY_JMarietta CuisenartTue Apr 11 1989 23:181
    Eczema, Psorriasis , and Sebborhea               (law firm)
651.2COOKIE::DEVINEBob Devine, CXNWed Apr 12 1989 05:324
    
    Lock, Stock, and Barrel
    	-- specialists in handgun violations ??
    
651.3Oaths and threatsINCH::PREECEJust a shallow hole, Moriarty.Wed Apr 12 1989 13:599
    
    How about the old-established firms of 
    
    Morgidge, Mildew and Mold  - Estate Agents (Realtors to our colonial
    						cousins.)
    Sue, Grabbit and Run       - Lawyers
    
    and   Lyre and  Fiddel     -   "      - and this one's real ! 
    					   - It's in Ireland.
651.4Runne?COMICS::DEMORGANRichard De Morgan, UK CSC/CSWed Apr 12 1989 15:133
    Re .3: I thinks it's "Sue Grabbit and Runne" (from Private Eye,
    the UK satirical magazine from which I extract "Colemanballs" for
    VNS).
651.5I'm told it exists in Devon...INBLUE::HALDANETypos to the TradeWed Apr 12 1989 17:363
			I. Cain, family butcher.

	Delia
651.6This one will run(ne) and...INCH::PREECEJust a shallow hole, Moriarty.Wed Apr 12 1989 17:468
    
    re.4(re.3)
    
    I stand corrected, Sue Grabbit & Runne, it is !
    Knew I'd heard it somewhere, couldn't place it.
    
    Thanks
    Ian
651.7CUPMK::SLOANEOpportunity knocks softlyWed Apr 12 1989 19:144
    
   ... and the senior partner is Sue M. Fast.
                               
   Bruce 
651.8Attorneys at LawCRLTRX::treeseWin Treese, Cambridge Research LabWed Apr 12 1989 23:385
Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short

(from the door of a former manager of mine)

	- Win
651.9close...LEZAH::BOBBITTinvictus maneoThu Apr 13 1989 00:2411
    Well, this isn't a law firm, it's an advertising agency from Monty
    Python (from the "String Sketch", off the Contractual Obligations
    Album)
    
    Mousebat, Follicle, Goosecreature, Ampersand, Spong, Wapcaplet, Looseliver,
    Vendetta and Prang

    (or a reasonable facsimile)
    
    -Jody
    
651.10DECWET::GETSINGEREric GetsingerThu Apr 13 1989 06:113
    How about:
    
    Ambu, Lance, Chaser and Moore
651.11Cast your mind back...FOOT::PREECEJust a shallow hole, Moriarty.Fri Apr 14 1989 13:429
    
    Messrs. Mousehabit, Kneepthigh, Cattermole and Trusspott,
    Solicitors and Commissioners for Oaths .
    
    Not real, but who remembers where they came from ?
    
    (This is beginning to sound like TRIVIA !)
    
    Ian
651.12Sounds like Beachcomber?NEARLY::GOODENOUGHFri Apr 14 1989 16:251
    
651.13FOOT::PREECEJust a shallow hole, Moriarty.Fri Apr 14 1989 18:581
    Nope.  A little west and down a bit.
651.14For realRUTLND::DDAUGHERTYMon Apr 17 1989 23:112
    Sugar, Swartz, Silver, Swartz and Tyler...
    In Detroit, Mi.
651.15There's more...MARVIN::WALSHTue Apr 25 1989 20:036
    Thomas Pynchon invented the firm of Nash, De Poore, Brutus, and Short.
    
    There is a firm of estate agents (realtors) here in Reading called
    Vanderpump and Wellbeloved (true!!)
    
    Chris
651.16FDCV06::CALLAHANJoe Callahan, US Telcom, 223-2768Thu May 11 1989 23:495
    When I lived in South Carolina many years ago one of the major utility
    companies was 
          
    PEOPLE'S NATURAL GAS  (I wasn't as conscious of words then so I am
    			  guessing about the placement of the ')
651.17Hotblack Desiato "SOLD"AYOV18::BRIGHTTHOMASThu Jun 29 1989 20:148
    
    For those of you interested in Hitch-Hiker's Guide trivia (H2G2)
    the name of Ford's Disaster Area 'Wow, did he ever make it mega-big'
    friend Hotblack Desiato is taken from an estate agent's operating
    in West London. I actually saw one of these signs in Swiss Cottage
    and was sorely tempted to relocate it on my bedroom wall.
    
    PBT, the H2G2 know-it-all.
651.18Fictional law firmsORION::HECKMANThu Jul 13 1989 21:566
    From Tom Wolfe's novel _The_Bonfire_of_the_Vanities_ :
    
    
    		Dunning Sponget and Leach
    		Curry Goad and Pesterall
651.19UBOHUB::SWANNMike SwannWed Mar 07 1990 17:456
    A bit late adding this.  
    
    There is a medical group practice in the UK called:
    
    Hunt, Lunt, and Cunningham.
    
651.20Lawless & Lynch (real)HPSCAD::ALTMANBARBThu Apr 25 1991 23:430