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To: Larry Lucido; All
I kind of like this modern day (more or less) re-enactment of Palsgraf (Cosmo Kramer on the tennis courts).

Respectfully, if, when Kramer had fallen, he had spilled a bag of popcorn; a pigeon had swooped onto the court; a small, leashed dog in the stands had lunged for the pigeon; the woman holding the leash was abruptly jostled, causing her to spill an iced drink in the lap of the man sitting next to her; the man had an undiagnosed medical condition which caused him to be hypersensitive to cold in the 'groinal' region; his spasmodic temperature-induce twitching caused his steel-toed size 12 Oxfords to strike the propellor-topped beanie on the head of the boy in front of him, spinning it; and the beanie helicopter-ed into the air, hitting the microphone of the broadcaster in the open-fronted third-level booth, knocking the mic into his mouth and choking him; and as his broadcasting partner performed the Heimlich maneuver, he had a Post-Traumatic Stress related flashback to a first-lieutenant's too-large-spoonful of dried-chipped-beef-on-toast in a dining fly in a small compound in Istanbul, causing the partner permanent to lose his ability to speak and his livelihood and to sue the manufacturer of the tennis ball machine? ~

~ now that's Palsgraf.

37 posted on 12/29/2011 2:11:53 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Scoutmaster
~ now that's Palsgraf.

Sort of the legal version of a Rube Goldberg contraption!

38 posted on 12/29/2011 2:15:36 PM PST by thecodont
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