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How not to impress your new bank manager: almost throw up over a posh meeting room. Nice.
In other news, I am beginning a campaign for the return of archaic legal language. Case reports etc just don't begin like this anymore:
John Partridge of Topcroft, having been indicted before the lord king for the death of Adam of Nethergate, of Shelton, feloniously slain in the vill of Bixley on Saturday the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Mary in the fifteenth year of the reign of the present king, comes led by the sheriff.
"Feloniously slain": genius.
In other news, I am beginning a campaign for the return of archaic legal language. Case reports etc just don't begin like this anymore:
John Partridge of Topcroft, having been indicted before the lord king for the death of Adam of Nethergate, of Shelton, feloniously slain in the vill of Bixley on Saturday the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Mary in the fifteenth year of the reign of the present king, comes led by the sheriff.
"Feloniously slain": genius.