Comments on: Lawsuit urban legends

By: February 1 roundup

February 1 roundup — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:04:34 +0000

[...] only prejudicial, but a whiskery urban legend to boot: fictional “Winnebago tale” (man thinks cruise control function will drive RV [...]

By: Bogus “Stella Awards” — at VC

Bogus “Stella Awards” — at VC — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:53:19 +0000

[...] future embarrassment: check Snopes.com, Google key phrases of the suspect material, or just be a regular reader of [...]

By: Overlawyered

Overlawyered — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:19:05 +0000

New sidebar: this site’s greatest hits

We’ve added, along the right column of this site’s front page, a new sidebar feature entitled “Greatest Hits”, linking to a selection of our and readers’ favorite posts from the past (and maybe a stray…

By: Overlawyered

Overlawyered — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:04:17 +0000

Responses to comments on yesterday’s McDonald’s coffee posts

Several comments on yesterday’s post merit responses. 1. One commenter invokes the Ford Pinto case, which is interesting because that’s perhaps the most famous anti-reform urban legend of all. He mistakenly says that Ford’s problem…

By: ProfessorBainbridge.com

ProfessorBainbridge.com — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:47:49 +0000

Insure your cigars?

Father Neuhaus passes this one along:A reader found this on the Internet, so it must be true. A man in Charlotte, North Carolina, bought a box of very expensive cigars which he insured against fire. Having smoked them, he filed

By: f/k/a . . . .

f/k/a . . . . — Sun, 29 May 2005 21:25:24 +0000

while tom’s at home . . .