Comments on: Don’t use sarcasm… http://overlawyered.com/2006/03/dont-use-sarcasm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont-use-sarcasm Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 26 May 2012 21:33:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ted http://overlawyered.com/2006/03/dont-use-sarcasm/comment-page-1/#comment-2392 Ted Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:29:40 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3190#comment-2392 One can, with sufficient creativity, imagine a scenario by which an executive broke down and admitted criminal activity in front of seventeen executives in response to a critical analysts' report and then only one of the people at the meeting remembered a statement with such dramatic ramifications, but sarcasm seems to be the much more likely explanation for the line "They're on to us." Here's a <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2006-03-06-enron-mon_x.htm" rel="nofollow">more permanent link</a>. One can, with sufficient creativity, imagine a scenario by which an executive broke down and admitted criminal activity in front of seventeen executives in response to a critical analysts’ report and then only one of the people at the meeting remembered a statement with such dramatic ramifications, but sarcasm seems to be the much more likely explanation for the line “They’re on to us.”

Here’s a more permanent link.

]]> By: Walker Texas Ranger http://overlawyered.com/2006/03/dont-use-sarcasm/comment-page-1/#comment-2391 Walker Texas Ranger Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:10:08 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3190#comment-2391 What makes you think that the comment <b>had</b> to be sarcasm? That is only how the defendant characterized his comment. Is there a possibility that it wasn't sarcasm? What makes you think that the comment had to be sarcasm? That is only how the defendant characterized his comment. Is there a possibility that it wasn’t sarcasm?

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