Share Your Favorite Examples of, Um, Poetic Justice
This week we learned about a federal judge in Philly who used a limerick of his own to rule against the Limerick Golf Club. U.S. District Judge Berle Schiller summarized his ruling with this gem:
With arguments hard to resist,
The movant correctly insists,
His joinder was tardy,
And so the third-party
Complaint is hereby dismissed.
His little rhyme got us to thinking about what other judges are channeling their inner poets. So tell us about (and recite for us), the best examples you’ve seen of poetic justice. If you can’t think of an example, but have a (clean) limerick itching to get out, please share.
To get the ball rolling, our own Reg Davis has phrased the question in the form of a limerick:
A judge’s opinion in rhymes
Spurs a question for us and our times:
Is it justice poetic
Or sort of pathetic
When limerick mixes with crimes?
Answer in the comments below.
Read last week’s question and answers about the greatest threat to the economy.
Our favorite answer from last week:
Posted by Alan Singer: “I think the greatest threat to our economy is a twofold but intertwined threat: our as of unmet needs to switch to a better fuel source and for efficient mass transit infrastructure.
The ideal fuel source would have some or all of the following qualities. It would not be non-renewable. It would not contribute to global warming. It would not be dependent on foreign countries. It would impose an energy neutral carbon footprint. It could be hydrogen, perhaps. Our political leaders’ failure to do everything possible to encourage development of some such new fuel source to replace fossil fuels is ultimately a tremendous failure to all of us.
Our nation’s transportation infrastructure has also evolved based entirely on the availability of cheap and seemingly plentiful gasoline. Mass transit, such as trains, has a huge place in our economy right now that gas prices are soaring. Unless our leaders confront this problem and lead, we will see unbearable consumer price increases and environmental degradation. If global warming’s effects are as severe as some scientists believe, our economy faces tremendous future worsening from global warming’s effects alone.”
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