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===[[In your face]]===
===[[In your face]]===
[[If any]], like “[[or any part thereof]]”, is a neat exclamation point if you want to get the last word in a round of “who’s the most anal lawyer” in the negotiation. Appending that, sole, comment to a sheaf in 5.5pt font and [[fax]]ing it back an hour before the deal is due to close entitles one to a [[swept-back wing knee-slide]]. But really that is a cheap thrill. True [[ninja]] [[legal eagle]] points only accrue to that curmudgeonly bugger on the other side — in your correspondent’s mind, it would be he — who, with poker face and jaw set coolly against the ticking clock, invokes the [[anal paradox]] and strikes your piffling amendment, citing only the interests of elegant and legible prose.
[[If any]], like “[[or any part thereof]]”, is a neat exclamation point if you want to get the last word in a round of “who’s the most anal lawyer” in the negotiation. Appending that, sole, comment to a sheaf in 5.5pt font and [[fax]]ing it back an hour before the deal is due to close entitles one to a [[swept-back wing knee-slide]]. But, really, that is a cheap thrill — inserting late-breaking trifles is shooting fish in a barrel. It brings no inner peace.  
 
No; true ninja [[legal eagle]] points only accrue to the curmudgeonly sod on the ''other'' side — the [[JC]] likes to think it would be someone like him — who, with poker face and jaw set coolly against the ticking clock regards your facile markup and, as the sand drains from the hourglass rails against the tyrannous [[anal paradox]] and strikes that piffling amendment, citing the sacred interest of elegant prose, saying ''this will not do''.


==={{icds}} show you how to do it===
==={{icds}} show you how to do it===

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