Squoze
Squoze
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I just finished my stint on jury duty, and I was surpised that a seemingly seasoned attorney/lawyer would use the term "squoze" as the past tense of "squeeze", both verbally and written.
Is there some 'leagalese' for the term I am unaware of? Or were people just too polite to bring it up during a court session?
Is there some 'leagalese' for the term I am unaware of? Or were people just too polite to bring it up during a court session?
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I am sure in his written briefs, assuming he is compentent, were thoroughly vetted to insure each term was used correctly.
I remember a promiment attorney who used to come to court in a rural town in an older out of style suit, take his coat off and hook his thumbs under his suspenders and start his presentation with "Waall now , people----". In that time and that place it was very effective at engendering a warm feeling for him from the comunity from which the jury would be drawn.
Remember that lawyers are the larval form of politicians. There is no better place to practice thier skills at swaying people with thier speach, than with a dozen captive jurors, who must listen to him, then give him a grade on his style with thier vote at the end of the proceedings.
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'Remember that lawyers are the larval form of politicians' - Brilliant. A star
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Good turn of a phrase, Shaman2. I'll have to use that one on my friend, a paralegal. She is considering going to law school because it's less slimey to become a 'maggot' than to work for one as their grunt.
MadMango. What was the context of the use of the word? Did someone choke of fresh-squoze orange juice, or get some body part squoze between two pieces of equipment? Just curious.
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I can see the new ad campaigns now, "Florida Orange Juice, fresh squozed from the orchard to your table."
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"Did someone choke of fresh-squoze orange juice, or get some body part squoze between two pieces of equipment?"
Interesting you should ask about "Squozen" body parts. If I recall correctly, The trial with the backwoods country lawyer concernd damages to be awarded to a young woman whose breast was "squoze" (squozed?, squozen?) by an elevator door which closed too forcibly.
Until then I was not even aware that there were standards for the speed and force with which an elevator door closed.
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There are neologisms introduced by the The Simpsons (TV) series. Among them squozen. The logic: if freeze → frozen, then squeeze → squozen.
Here are some samples on the same kind of reasoning:
If people of Poland are called "Poles", it is logical to call those from Holland, "Holes".
If the plural of mouse is mice, then the plural of house could be "hice".
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, it follows that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed and dry cleaners depressed.
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My favorite lawyer joke (told to me by a patent lawyer):
"I don't like to use Latin, per se...."
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Tobalcane
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If pro is the opposite of con, is Congress the opposite of Progress?
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,218369,00.html
"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"
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...larval form of politicians!
ROTFLMAO
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If so:
Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?
A: One's a sludge-sucking bottom feeder. The other's a fish...
old field guy
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Most of us squoze the money at the end of the month and it almost doesn’t squoosh
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"Squoze me, commin' through"
NozzleTwister
Houston, Texas
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Does that make the plural of spouse spice?
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Naresuan University
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JMW
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Cheers
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"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."
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Forever Young
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How do you quote someone anyway? I dont know how to use this forum.
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I suspect it exists elsewhere as well.
JMW
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Maybe a sort of an inside joke amongst rappers and "hip-hop dudes".
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