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{{a|glossary|[[File:Ironmountain1.jpg|center|450px|A [[Lehman]] employee yesterday.]]}} | {{a|glossary|[[File:Ironmountain1.jpg|center|450px|A [[Lehman]] employee yesterday.]]}}No such thing. Are you looking for the [[Lehmans|Lehman'''''s''''']], the Amish online hardware store? | ||
No such thing. Are you looking for the [[Lehmans|Lehman'''''s''''']], the Amish online hardware store? | |||
Actually, [[Lehman]] ''is'' a thing, and it drifts on like [[Nosferatu]], the un-dead, still spreading its influence over everything we do in a way that its bodily manifestation in life was plainly unable to. [[MF Global]] has a similar effect, though there, memories fade. We are but mortal. | Actually, [[Lehman]] ''is'' a thing, and it drifts on like [[Nosferatu]], the un-dead, still spreading its influence over everything we do in a way that its bodily manifestation in life was plainly unable to. [[MF Global]] has a similar effect, though there, memories fade. We are but mortal. | ||
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Similarly, [[Magic circle law firm|opposing counsel]] — sometimes, even your own — will resist any stroke of your pen against their mangled syntax on the solemn, but unelucidated, pretext that they “lived through the [[Lehman]] administration” and are so “scarred by the experience”<ref>Look, let’s face facts, campers: the [[Lehman]] collapse was hardly some POW chain-gang on Burma Railway for our learned friends, so hold those crocodile tears, okay?</ref> that any record must state, in [[legal triplicate]]s, obvious truisms, [[redundancies]] and [[No violation - Representation|unfalsifable representations]] — you know the kind of dismal [[verbiage]] — and under no circumstances can one leave anything unsaid and at the mercy of the common sense, capacity for formal logic, or ability to parse a sentence phrased in idiomatic English of those learned practitioners who occupy the [[Queen’s Bench Division]]. | Similarly, [[Magic circle law firm|opposing counsel]] — sometimes, even your own — will resist any stroke of your pen against their mangled syntax on the solemn, but unelucidated, pretext that they “lived through the [[Lehman]] administration” and are so “scarred by the experience”<ref>Look, let’s face facts, campers: the [[Lehman]] collapse was hardly some POW chain-gang on Burma Railway for our learned friends, so hold those crocodile tears, okay?</ref> that any record must state, in [[legal triplicate]]s, obvious truisms, [[redundancies]] and [[No violation - Representation|unfalsifable representations]] — you know the kind of dismal [[verbiage]] — and under no circumstances can one leave anything unsaid and at the mercy of the common sense, capacity for formal logic, or ability to parse a sentence phrased in idiomatic English of those learned practitioners who occupy the [[Queen’s Bench Division]]. | ||
In other words, yes, you ''do'' have to say “this [[confidentiality agreement]] may be executed in [[counterpart]]s, each of which [[shall]] be [[deemed]] to be [[deemed]] an original”, lest the sky should fall in on your head. | In other words, yes, you ''do'' have to say “this [[confidentiality agreement]] may be executed in [[counterpart]]s, each of which [[shall]] be [[deemed]] to be [[deemed]] an original”, lest the sky should fall in on your head as surely as it did on [[Lehman]]’s. | ||
[[Lehmans]], on the other hand, carries on in rude health. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. | |||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
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*[[MF Global]] | *[[MF Global]] | ||
*[[Nosferatu]] | *[[Nosferatu]] | ||