Spats McGee
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Lefty said:This thread has nothing to do with hats.
jimmy the lid said:Perhaps it should be moved to the Observation Bar and re-titled "The Observation Bar Association"...
Cheers,
JtL
AR Banjo said:I'm a deputy prosecutor in northeast Arkansas; handle drug cases exclusively.
Like others here, law wasn't my first career. I spent time in the army before law school. Still in the National Guard.
Favorite pens--wartime Vacumatics and Skylines.
Spats, where you trying to get on as a DPA?
I actually think this is my first post.....
AR Banjo said:Lot less than 100 miles!
I can't PM yet--send me a PM if you would.
Spats McGee said:
Ephraim Tutt said:That's the spirit Spats! Now....what is it? Stetson? Resistol??
Casual, yet somehow regal and legal! Especially with the learned tomes behind you.
I'm in my Royal Stetson 1958 Trilby today. Pics later.
Spats McGee said:That's the Resistol Frankenhat. I'm still working on getting the brim just right. Overall, I like it for a casual hat, though.
Those learned tomes . . . I kept most of my law school casebooks & hornbooks, and I keep those in the middle section of the credenza. If you look at the lower left and right corners, those red and black books are from the Arkansas Code Annotated. One of the better investments I made when I opened my practice, without a doubt.
Doublegun said:Fly fishing, left that one off my list of excesses and probably shoudn't have. Being lawyers I imagine many of you have read (or seen) Anatomy of a Murder, written by Robert Traver. If so then you probably know that Robert Traver (John Voelker) was a justice on the Michigan Supreme Court. This is what Justice Voelker had to say about fly-fishing:
I fish because I love to; because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful, and hate the environs where crowds of people are found, which are invariably ugly; because of all the television commercials, cocktail parties, and assorted social posturing I thus escape; because, in a world where most men seem to spend their lives doing things they hate, my fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of small rebellion; because trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed or impressed by power, but respond only to quietude and humility and endless patience; because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don't want to waste the trip; because mercifully there are no telephones on trout waters; because only in the woods can I find solitude without loneliness; because bourbon out of an old tin cup always tastes better out there; because maybe one day I will catch a mermaid; and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant - and not nearly so much fun.
-John Voelker (Robert Traver )
For those of you who have not seen the movie or read the book I encourage you to find a copy and a comfortable chair and enjoy. (There are some great old hats in the movie as well as some memorable lines).
As for me, I swore off fly rods made of graphite 3-4 years ago when I cast my first bamboo rod. I just love the look and feel of a cane rod. I'll head north in a couple of weeks for several days of grouse hunting and fly fishing for brook trout, taking with me my English setters and a couple of books. This I look forward to all year.
Miss_Bella_Hell said:I just took the NY Bar in July, waiting for my results. Currently working at the 2nd Dept Appellate Court in Brooklyn.
This thread is such a boys' club! lol
anon` said:What, no Oregon pinots? To say nothing of scotch, port and the occasional cocktail?