The Volokh Conspiracy

[Orin Kerr, May 27, 2006 at 1:23am] Trackbacks

Article III Trivia Question:

What judge clerked for a judge who clerked for a judge that his clerk also clerked for?

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(Cross posted at OrinKerr.com)

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jr:

Curse you Orin Kerr! My brain almost melted.

5.27.2006 2:53am

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Dave Hardy (mail) (www):

John Blair. In the 1790, he hired a clerk who had worked for John Marshall, until he discovered that Marshall had dropped out of law school to pursue the ladies. Blair had also clerked for Bushrod Washington, of whom little is known but that for some reason he smoked a lot of hemp, which fell out of fashion for at least a centuy.

Blair's son, Scapegoat Blair, was blamed for the recession of 1833 and for the Mexican War of 1845, and left the name of "Blair" to go down in history.

5.27.2006 3:42am

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Cancer-stricken Carl:

Don't DO that. Not to a man in my condition. And I didn't even HAVE a condition before I read this post. Meep.

5.27.2006 3:58am

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DNL (mail):

Indeed, how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

5.27.2006 8:41am

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Frank Drackman (mail):

He'd chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
"On old Olympus's towering top, a Finn and German viewed some Hops"
anyone know what thats a pneumonic for? its from first yr medical school. Does Law school have similar educational aids?

5.27.2006 9:58am

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Frank Drackman (mail):

"As Sally lay frigid, Oscars Penis sneaked in" thats a harder one.

5.27.2006 10:39am

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Helen:

Fred Drackman:

It's "mnemonic" not "pneumonic."

5.27.2006 12:07pm

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Frank Drackmann (mail):

Hmm I always forget that...why is it pronounced "New-Monic" though?.... its "Frank" not "Fred". The more risque version of the "Old Olympus" verse is:
"Oh Oh Oh to touch and feel a girls vagina and hymen,so heavenly"

5.27.2006 1:01pm

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Jared K.:

If only there were a good way to remember the spelling of mnemonic.

5.27.2006 1:55pm

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JB:

Phrank: Blame the Greeks, and those who transliterate them. Someything's phishy about the phact that the f sound is so often transliterated as ph coming from greek. I phind it's hard to understand.

5.27.2006 2:52pm

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Chris Jones (www):

It's the mnemonic to remember the cranial nerves. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial_nerves.

5.27.2006 6:30pm

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Frank Drackmann (mail):

How about "Never lower Tillies Pants,Grandma might come Home"? I actually saw this later on "ER" but they used the "New Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle" version. Theyre not exactly identical as the first limeric uses older names for what "Grandma Might" designates while "That they" is the more modern terms. Its taught in first year Gross Anatomy, and Orthopedic Surgeons and ER docs are most likey to put it to practical use.

5.28.2006 10:37am

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numitor:

Was I the only one who completely misunderstood which judge in the chain the "that his clerk" was referring to? Was the correct reading the obvious/natural one, or was it ambiguous?

5.30.2006 11:55am