Redefining misanthropy for a fresh generation. Standard posts begin with a definition from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary followed by a modern adjustment. Miscellany on Wednesday and storytelling on Saturday.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Defaulter
DEFAULTER, n. An important officer in a bank, who commonly adds to his regular functions the duties of cashier.
2010 Update: A restitutionary revolutionary. The median American.
The online dictionary doesn't have one word for "defaulter", it describes the person in a long list of miserable acts. May I add "someone who sits in one corner in panic in the Wolfeinstein game and refuses to take one step in fear of pigheaded soldiers".
In certain areas of the law another head of damages has long been available, whereby the defendant is made to give up the profits made through the civil wrong in restitution. ------------ Doyle and Wright define restitutionary damages as being a monetary remedy that is measured according to the defendant's gain rather than the plaintiff's loss. ------------ The plaintiff thereby gains damages which are not measured by reference to any loss sustained. In some areas of the law this heading of damages is uncontroversial; most particularly intellectual property rights and breach of fiduciary relationship. -------------
Thanks, Anonymous. Nothing to make the heart warm like an unidentified stranger sending an smile to a three year old.
Nessa, I kind of think Def Leppard ought to be touring as Die Älter.
Fell flat, huh, Terry?
Howdy, A-bell!
That;s ok, Bear. I'm against gluttony until I'm at the table.
Hahaha, Ariel. I played the first version of the game and mostly tried to make words out of whatever the guards were saying.
Don't know who you mean, Karen.
Actonbell, just the sort we need playing video games.
OK, in case anyone's fooled, I'm pretty sure the second "Jim" is Karen. K, if you want to trick us, you need to include the picture and better to link to his Blogger profile than his page.
Oh, ok, Karen. Now I sorta know who Jim Nast isish.
Cooper, that's a freemason.
Jim, my dad keeps my brother's grill he made in shop class.
"No comments yet."
ReplyDeleteGood Morning World
ReplyDeletegreetings Doug
bear & crow
w/v..facks
redefined facts with fantasy
Here come da faulter, here come da faulter.
ReplyDeleteI find no fault here today. Yet.
belated Birthday Greeting
ReplyDeleteEAMON...Happy Three :-)
Def Aulter is similar to Def Leppard only with a German accent.
ReplyDeleteI was going to make an earthquake (fault) joke, but I was a defaulter.
ReplyDeletedefaulter
ReplyDeleteonce campaigning complete
many an elected official
embrace totalitarian
governing...
Peace starts with us
w/v...hapsibum
dance of the
political cocktail
social circuit
The online dictionary doesn't have one word for "defaulter", it describes the person in a long list of miserable acts. May I add "someone who sits in one corner in panic in the Wolfeinstein game and refuses to take one step in fear of pigheaded soldiers".
ReplyDeleteWhere's Jim Nast?
ReplyDeleteTan Lucy Pez!
ReplyDeleteWill you please control your 47-year-old daughter? She's over commenting again!
I'm having trouble with Bierce today. I will have more trouble with 'defenceless' tomorrow.
ReplyDeletePerhaps de faulter is defenceless.
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Restitutionary or disgorgement damages
ReplyDeleteIn certain areas of the law another head of damages has long been available, whereby the defendant is made to give up the profits made through the civil wrong in restitution.
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Doyle and Wright define restitutionary damages as being a monetary remedy that is measured according to the defendant's gain rather than the plaintiff's loss.
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The plaintiff thereby gains damages which are not measured by reference to any loss sustained. In some areas of the law this heading of damages is uncontroversial; most particularly intellectual property rights and breach of fiduciary relationship.
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defaulter, n.
ReplyDeleteThe person who goes around filling the gaps in the earth to help prevent earthquakes?
Cooper, I have a pry bar for you that I made in high school ag shop if that would be of help.
ReplyDelete..
Not yet.
ReplyDeleteFair travels, bear and crow.
TLP, it'll be along.
Thanks, Anonymous. Nothing to make the heart warm like an unidentified stranger sending an smile to a three year old.
Nessa, I kind of think Def Leppard ought to be touring as Die Älter.
Fell flat, huh, Terry?
Howdy, A-bell!
That;s ok, Bear. I'm against gluttony until I'm at the table.
Hahaha, Ariel. I played the first version of the game and mostly tried to make words out of whatever the guards were saying.
Don't know who you mean, Karen.
Actonbell, just the sort we need playing video games.
OK, in case anyone's fooled, I'm pretty sure the second "Jim" is Karen. K, if you want to trick us, you need to include the picture and better to link to his Blogger profile than his page.
Oh, ok, Karen. Now I sorta know who Jim Nast isish.
Cooper, that's a freemason.
Jim, my dad keeps my brother's grill he made in shop class.
I love it when you get my corny vague jokes.
ReplyDeleteTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
ReplyDeleteEstoppel
ESTOPPEL, n. In law, the kind of stopple with which a man is corked up with his plea inside him.
2010 Update: A legal assumption that what a man has said he can be presumed to have meant, providing unamendable evidence that justice is blind.