They’re in the locker room, so let’s hope the speaker isn’t Darby. But who could it be? Gil? Kaz? My guess is some player on the team whose father or mother is also a lawyer and is representing the Speedco station. Dissension will grip the team as players take sides.
Last time I checked, Chaldaeans and Assyrians (both Christian sects indigenous to Iraq) and Maronites (mostly Lebanese but some Jordanian) are 100% Arab — you cannot say a subset is not part of the larger set!
Whatever his race or religion, he didn’t salt his lot and some guy slipped. The insurance company will settle the case pretty quickly. The real loser here is the lawyer who has to work with Knox.
Knox had better be careful about not revealing anything that is protected by the attorney-client privilege or attorney work-product doctrine. He might wind up waiving privilege and laying the groundwork for a malpractice suit against the firm. (Yes, I admit it. I’m a lawyer.)
Salting the lot – reminds me of the story behind the Great Salt Lake in Utah. When Brigham Young’s settlers found the lake, the men were ecstatic. Brigham Young exclaimed, “Men, this is the land of milk and honey. We can spend our days fishing while the women do the farming.” That night Brigham’s wife gathered the women and said, “Women, tomorrow we salt the lake.”
Historically, the ancient Chaldeans (who lived in Mesopotamia) were not Arabs (who all lived on the Arabian peninsula), but the word is not usually applied to present-day people at all, except in the names of certain relatively obscure Christian sects. But it is true that members of those sects are usually not Arabs by blood, and do not like being mistaken for Arabs. The main point being made here, I dare say, is that Americans have a bad habit of treating “Arab” and “Moslem” as meaning the same thing, and of assuming that all whites who are not Europeans or Americans are Arab/Moslems, which is wrong every which way. An “Arab” is a member of a certain ethnic group and a “Moslem” is a member of a particular religion. Not all Arabs are Moslems, not all Moslems are Arabs, and not everyone from the Middle East or India is either one.
george about 11 years ago
oooo – gotcha moment!
chiphilton about 11 years ago
They’re in the locker room, so let’s hope the speaker isn’t Darby. But who could it be? Gil? Kaz? My guess is some player on the team whose father or mother is also a lawyer and is representing the Speedco station. Dissension will grip the team as players take sides.
prasrinivara about 11 years ago
Last time I checked, Chaldaeans and Assyrians (both Christian sects indigenous to Iraq) and Maronites (mostly Lebanese but some Jordanian) are 100% Arab — you cannot say a subset is not part of the larger set!
kdizzle about 11 years ago
Kaz is often mistaken for a Jamesdean.
wmac8898 about 11 years ago
Whatever his race or religion, he didn’t salt his lot and some guy slipped. The insurance company will settle the case pretty quickly. The real loser here is the lawyer who has to work with Knox.
Pat Murray about 11 years ago
I think it’s the peacock speaking
Pappaw57 about 11 years ago
That’s what she said …
HooDaD about 11 years ago
Knox had better be careful about not revealing anything that is protected by the attorney-client privilege or attorney work-product doctrine. He might wind up waiving privilege and laying the groundwork for a malpractice suit against the firm. (Yes, I admit it. I’m a lawyer.)
miffedmax about 11 years ago
We know the plaintiff, Marty Moon, was inebriated at the time of the incident. Case dismissed.
tcar-1 about 11 years ago
@miffedmax……. a literal LOL for me on that one!
Mopman about 11 years ago
That’s a “classic”?P3 – Whoa, not only EES but RNS (Radiating Nose Syndrome).
LngJhnAg about 11 years ago
Salting the lot – reminds me of the story behind the Great Salt Lake in Utah. When Brigham Young’s settlers found the lake, the men were ecstatic. Brigham Young exclaimed, “Men, this is the land of milk and honey. We can spend our days fishing while the women do the farming.” That night Brigham’s wife gathered the women and said, “Women, tomorrow we salt the lake.”
John W Kennedy Premium Member about 11 years ago
Historically, the ancient Chaldeans (who lived in Mesopotamia) were not Arabs (who all lived on the Arabian peninsula), but the word is not usually applied to present-day people at all, except in the names of certain relatively obscure Christian sects. But it is true that members of those sects are usually not Arabs by blood, and do not like being mistaken for Arabs. The main point being made here, I dare say, is that Americans have a bad habit of treating “Arab” and “Moslem” as meaning the same thing, and of assuming that all whites who are not Europeans or Americans are Arab/Moslems, which is wrong every which way. An “Arab” is a member of a certain ethnic group and a “Moslem” is a member of a particular religion. Not all Arabs are Moslems, not all Moslems are Arabs, and not everyone from the Middle East or India is either one.