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Teenager Wins Email Suit Against City of Kokomo
An anonymous reader writes "Recently, a 16 year old sued the city of Kokomo, Indiana for access to an email list that he suspected the mayor was mis-using for political purposes. Despite the mayor's refusal to give in, the teenager won the case. The city will have to pay not only for the expensive attorneys they hired, but may have to compensate the 16 year old's pro-bono counsel."
You can't fight city hall! Or rather, you can fight city hall but the universe will implode if you win. Way to go, I never got to see France.
Demented But Determined.
Anyone who is forced to be pro-Bono should be compensated.
I mean... what's with wearing the sunglasses indoors? So pretentious!
I wonder if this is enough of a joy for the Beach Boys to sing about it?
Ryan - http://www.thecosmotron.com/
Aruba, Jamaica
Ooh I wanna take ya
To Bermuda, Bahama
Come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego
Baby why don't we go
Ooh I wanna take you down to Kokomo
We'll get there fast
And then we'll take it slow
That's where we wanna go
Way down to Kokomo
I think I need more coffee this morning. And maybe a lobotomy so I can forget the late 80s/early 90s once and for all. The booze doesn't seem to be working.
(Two cymbals and a snare drum fall down a canyon.)
Disclaimer: This is comming from a K-Town Native.
i elsen.detassel.htmlCorn Detasseling. It's hand-ripping slave labor. Ask anyone from around there, they'll tell that such a punishment makes Guantanamo Bay look like Club Med.
The only fitting punishment, as any Hoosier would know (that I am) is to put him in the fields and make him do some http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/990723.N
Oh wait, he still lives in Kokomo. That's punishment enough.
sean s.
Great. That's what Slashdot needs, Latin Grammar Nazis.
... ...
Hic, haec, hoc
Huius, huius, huis
--Mike
no
Ego, ex mea parte, saluto dominos nostros novos grammaticos!
Brian is writing a slogan on a wall, oblivious to the Roman patrol approaching from behind. The slogan is "ROMANES EUNT DOMUS".
...? ...?
... imperative.
...? ... the locative, sir!
..."-MUM". Understand?
Centurion: What's this thing? "ROMANES EUNT DOMUS"? "People called Romanes they go the house?"
Brian: It... it says "Romans go home".
Centurion: No it doesn't. What's Latin for "Roman"?
Brian hesitates
Centurion: Come on, come on!
Brian: (uncertain) "ROMANUS".
Centurion: Goes like?
Brian: "-ANUS".
Centurion: Vocative plural of "-ANUS" is?
Brian: "-ANI".
Centurion: (takes paintbrush from Brian and paints over) "RO-MA-NI". "EUNT"? What is "EUNT"?
Brian: "Go".
Centurion: Conjugate the verb "to go"!
Brian: "IRE". "EO", "IS", "IT", "IMUS", "ITIS", "EUNT".
Centurion: So "EUNT" is
Brian: Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
Centurion: But "Romans, go home!" is an order, so you must use the
He lifts Brian by his short hairs
Brian: The
Centurion: Which is?
Brian: Um, oh, oh, "I", "I"!
Centurion: How many Romans? (pulls harder)
Brian: Plural, plural! "ITE".
Centurion strikes over "EUNT" and paints "ITE" on the wall
Centurion: "I-TE". "DOMUS"? Nominative? "Go home", this is motion towards, isn't it, boy?
Brian: (very anxious) Dative?
Centurion draws his sword and holds it to Brian's throat
Brian: Ahh! No, ablative, ablative, sir. No, the, accusative, accusative, ah, DOMUM, sir.
Centurion: Except that "DOMUS" takes the
Brian:
Centurion: Which is?
Brian: "DOMUM".
Centurion: (satisfied) "DOMUM"...
He strikes out "DOMUS" and writes "DOMUM"
Centurian:
Brian: Yes sir.
Centurion: Now write it down a hundred times.
Brian: Yes sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar, sir.
Centurion: (saluting) Hail Caesar. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
Brian: (very relieved) Oh thank you sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar and everything, sir!
michael greene
I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!!
Now, git off my lawn!
sudo eat my shorts
FOP? I'm a Dapper Dan man, dammit!
I wonder how "recommended" it really is. I mean, you're recommended to give to the collections in church, but people give you dirty looks if you don't
Especially when you run away with the plate.
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
You mean to tell me that Kokomo -isn't- the place you wanna go to get away from it all?
I couldn't really picture there being a whole lot of tropical beaches in Indiana anyway.
wouldn't a Purdue student be a boil in Indiana?
Kudos to you for not putting up with the injustice, but "[Your] parents were making [you] pay for your own food"? Your first call should have been to social services, not the school cafeteria.
Usage: fortune -P [-f] -a [xsz] Q: file [rKe9] -v6[+] file1
I didn't realize we had so many cunning linguists here...
Another Latin phrase we used as pledges of my fraternity on a banner for the Delta Delta Delta Decathalon:
Veni, Vidi, VD. I came, I saw, I canckered.
Needless to say, the ladies of Tri-Delt were not impressed.
--Mike