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[[File:Club.png|450px|frameless|center|Why did it take the legal community two thousand years to come up with this idea?]]
[[File:Club.png|450px|frameless|center|Why did it take the legal community two thousand years to come up with this idea?]]
}}{{Quote|''SYNOPSIS: Some cheeky little Hobbits form a fellowship and set out on a perilous adventure to confront the fearsome [[mark-up|Smarkup]], a wingèd dragon made out of [[boilerplate]] that jealously guards a huge pile rent treasure. First act goes well.''}}
}}{{Quote|''SYNOPSIS: Some cheeky little Hobbits form a fellowship and set out on a perilous adventure to confront the fearsome [[mark-up|Smarkup]], a wingèd dragon made out of [[boilerplate]] that jealously guards a huge pile rent treasure.  


In Bozo Baggins’ burrow, there was a carefully hand-painted by his uncle Dildo:
First act goes well.''}}
{{Maxim|The quotidian is a utility, not an asset}}.


Now, no legal form has more boilerplate than an [[NDA]]. To read one is to behold pure, abstracted, essence of boilerplate. ''[[Boilerplate]] is all there is''. Yet generations of legal eagles have dug themselves into slit trenches to argue the toss over this quotidian contract. It has been some kind of insane compulsion: not one of them ''enjoyed'' it; not one of them saw any point in it; they found themselves compelled to do it; drawn to it like moths to a lamp.  
{{quote|In Bozo Baggins’ burrow, there was a sign above his desk, carefully hand-painted by his uncle Dildo:
“{{Maxim|The quotidian is a utility, not an asset}}.”}}
 
Now, no legal form has more [[boilerplate]] than an [[NDA]]. To read one is to behold pure, abstracted, essence of boilerplate. ''[[Boilerplate]] is all there is''. Yet generations of legal eagles have dug themselves into slit trenches to argue the toss over this quotidian contract. It has been some kind of insane compulsion: not one of them ''enjoyed'' it; not one of them saw any point in it; they found themselves compelled to do it; drawn to it like moths to a lamp.  


“I must negotiate this NDA, because this is what I do. [[It is in my nature]].”
“I must negotiate this NDA, because this is what I do. [[It is in my nature]].”