| Oct 5 | #1. Isn’t it ironic? |
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| Oct 6 | #2. Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s off to work Kate goes! |
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| Oct 7 | #3. Sky’s favorite is the Apatosaurus. |
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| Oct 8 | #4. Hindsight is never more clear than when you’re dressed in a suit. |
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| Oct 9 | #5. All-you-can-wish buffet! |
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| Oct 12 | #6. I know a lawyer who calls legal assistants “scatteraries.” |
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| Oct 13 | #7. In the pecking order, a senior associate ranks just below the parking lot car wash guy. |
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| Oct 14 | #8. Plan B is to be one of the maids who cleans his house. |
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| Oct 15 | #9. In especially ugly litigation, you can lose your identity and your soul. Actually, that happens even in normal litigation. |
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| Oct 16 | #10. Portrait of a Gibbons, Doom, & Cratchit partner: He golfs. He smokes cigars. He drinks red wine. He vacations in Hawaii! |
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| Oct 19 | #11. How to structure a winning argument. |
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| Oct 20 | #12. When in Rome, read Machiavelli. |
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| Oct 21 | #13. You know what sharks hate about cage diving? The cage. |
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| Oct 22 | #14. Bailey also lost a pair of earrings in the men’s restroom at The Sky Bar, but she doesn’t want a replacement. Rhinestone dangles are so passé. |
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| Oct 23 | #15. Renata retired after realizing she had reached the, uh, climax of her career. |
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| Oct 26 | #16. “You don’t know how hard it is being a man looking at a woman looking the way you do.” |
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| Oct 27 | #17. If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth getting tipped for doing it. |
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| Oct 28 | #18. Kate prefers being called a pedestrian, not a “streetwalker.” |
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| Oct 29 | #19. Penultimate worst icebreaker: “You’re a lawyer, right?” (Ultimate worst: “Do you know how fast you were going?”) |
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| Oct 30 | #20. Happy Halloween 2009! |
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| Nov 2 | #21. Gmail’s sobriety check: solve simple arithmetic problems to send e-mail. This eliminates both drunk e-mailing AND late-night correspondence between English majors. |
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| Nov 3 | #22. Détente, Sky-style. |
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| Nov 4 | #23. Law students: in comparison, even chopped liver looks good. |
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| Nov 5 | #24. Cats probably think of the beach as a huge litter box. |
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| Nov 6 | #25. A “cheater” is just someone in need of a better lawyer. |
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| Nov 9 | #26. TaterTot Sutton, on the other hand, has a dignified ring. |
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| Nov 10 | #27. Evil is hereditary, but sometimes it skips a generation. Especially if that generation is locked up in a dungeon. |
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| Nov 11 | #28. TaterTot: the boost this economy needs. |
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| Nov 12 | #29. D.A.R.E. to say no to lawyers! |
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| Nov 13 | #30. Objection! My client is too culpable to answer that question! |
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| Nov 16 | #31. But my name really is “A. Non Ymous!” |
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| Nov 17 | #32. The three Xs stand for “eXceeds eXpectations of eXcellence.” |
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| Nov 18 | #33. And how come it’s called Friends when they all used to date each other? Shouldn’t it be called Exes? |
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| Nov 19 | #34. “Next time, I won’t bother getting married. I’ll just find a woman I dislike, buy her a house, and break half of my dishes.” |
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| Nov 20 | #35. Prop 8 might’ve had a different outcome if it had been called Prop 69. |
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| Nov 23 | #36. Sky also thought that “Once Upon A Time In The West” would have a fairy-tale ending. |
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| Nov 24 | #37. “Natural variations”: the only explanation for why Gap, Old Navy, Guess, Esprit, and Banana Republic can all be found in the same mall. |
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| Nov 25 | #38. Circumspection is the better part of discretion, which is the better part of family get-togethers. |
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| Nov 26 | #39. Happy Thanksgiving 2009! |
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| Nov 27 | #40. National Leftovers Day 2009! |
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| Nov 30 | #41. Tip 97: Charades is a good party game AND an excellent Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn mystery flick. |
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| Dec 1 | #42. Kleptomania: 0. Friendship: 1. |
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| Dec 2 | #43. “Legal impossibility” defined: a happy lawyer. |
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| Dec 3 | #44. Lawyers invented the idea of watching pots that never boil. It’s the ultimate billing opportunity. |
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| Dec 4 | #45. The legal system feels like a huge Rube Goldberg machine, combined with a failed Turing test candidate. |
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| Dec 7 | #46. Dinesh is planning a fondue night to embrace the firm’s “melting pot” ethos. Also, he really likes cheese. |
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| Dec 8 | #47. Dinesh’s motto: Dress for success. Or, barring that, dress to excess. |
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| Dec 9 | #48. Dinesh likes to save up his brownie points until they form a 7-layer chocolate cake. |
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| Dec 10 | #49. Nike’s slogan: Just do it! A lawyer’s slogan: Just claim you did it! |
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| Dec 11 | #50. The office whisperer: the horse whisperer’s evil twin. |
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| Dec 14 | #51. Logic: it keeps lawyers and Supreme Court justices warm at night. That, plus the burning pitchforks in the front yard. |
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| Dec 15 | #52. Dinesh’s advice is similar to the Mafia’s: offered as an option, just like breathing. |
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| Dec 16 | #53. Dinesh gives new meaning to the legal strategy of outtalking your opponent. |
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| Dec 17 | #54. Lawyers: a society of blood-sucking freaks of nature. But without the glamour or aversion to garlic. |
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| Dec 18 | #55. Kate’s stream of consciousness is Niagara Falls. |
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| Dec 21 | #56. Lawyers play a professional game of telephone. “He said that she said that they think that we should.” Better than the social version, because lawyers get paid. |
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| Dec 22 | #57. Kate’s honesty is refreshing. Ultimately selfish, but still refreshing! |
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| Dec 23 | #58. Plus, Sky and Sydney are giving TaterTot unlimited ornaments to swat. It’s Christmas for everyone! |
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| Dec 24 | #59. Santa delivers to Dinesh this Christmas. |
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| Dec 25 | #60. Happy Holidays from Sharp & Useless! |
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| Dec 28 | #61. Flail’s monsters aren’t cannibals. They’re the après-ski crowd: well-dressed, vicious dilettantes. |
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| Dec 29 | #62. Lawyers: pedantic, unrealistic, and out of touch. Which can be a useful distraction during a crisis situation! |
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| Dec 30 | #63. Ness and Sassy, sitting in a tree, committing v-i-o-l-e-n-c-e. |
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| Dec 31 | #64. Writing a love letter is hard work. There’s a lot of buildup before “I love you.” Otherwise, it would just be a love Post-It note. |
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