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{{a|drafting|{{image|american bacon|png|Not proper bacon, yesterday.}}}}{{d|American bacon drafting|/əˈmɛrɪkən ˈbeɪkən ˈdrɑːftɪŋ/|n|}} | {{a|drafting|{{image|american bacon|png|Not proper bacon, yesterday.}}}}{{d|American bacon drafting|/əˈmɛrɪkən ˈbeɪkən ˈdrɑːftɪŋ/|n|}}The legal equivalent of slapstick comedy: legal drafting created not so much to do anything but to ''be'' something. So named not necessarily because of provenance from [[U.S. Attorney|American]] [[legal eagles]] — though they do tend to be adept at it — but because it resembles by [[metaphor]] the sort of so-called “bacon” they sell you in America. | ||
American bacon drafting lives in the sort | American bacon drafting lives in the sort of wording that makes an incoming contract look hefty — even fearsome — but which, upon first contact with the pan, dissolves to a disappointing shrunken husk swimming in a sea of tepid grease. | ||
I mean no disrespect to my American friends: only your bacon. | I mean no disrespect to my American friends: only your bacon. | ||
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American bacon drafting
/əˈmɛrɪkən ˈbeɪkən ˈdrɑːftɪŋ/ (n.)
The legal equivalent of slapstick comedy: legal drafting created not so much to do anything but to be something. So named not necessarily because of provenance from American legal eagles — though they do tend to be adept at it — but because it resembles by metaphor the sort of so-called “bacon” they sell you in America.
American bacon drafting lives in the sort of wording that makes an incoming contract look hefty — even fearsome — but which, upon first contact with the pan, dissolves to a disappointing shrunken husk swimming in a sea of tepid grease.
I mean no disrespect to my American friends: only your bacon.