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My Lord

Went to court with OldSmoothie today.  He was in front of a judge with whom he had failed to get along since university days.  According to OldSmoothie it all happened “over a particularly strong-minded filly”.  According to Chambers gossip, he stole the judge’s girlfriend.  Whatever the details, there has been no love lost between them since.

Anyway, apparently the judge had always fancied himself as a bit of an academic.  He’d had ambitions to be a high court judge but had quietly been given the word that it wasn’t going to happen and that he might be well-advised to apply for the circuit bench.  Since there was no way that OldSmoothie was ever going to get along with his old adversary, he went instead for the put down, calling him “My Lord” throughout which is the title due to a high court judge rather than the “Your Honour” which he should have been using.  Each time he said it, you could just detect a slight twitch around the corner of the judge’s mouth.  To correct him would only highlight OldSmoothie’s point.  Not to correct him left OldSmoothie getting away with an insult.

He was left with little choice but to pitch for the dignified silence.

December 21, 2016 · Tim Kevan · 5 Comments
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