American bacon drafting: Difference between revisions

{{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 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.