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28 October 2008 - 5:28am — Christopher Wright
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SCO LAWYER: I believe we've set up everything we need. We've spun off the "main" company -- the one involved in all the litigation and with all the debt -- into a shell corporation that now exists in name only, which took out a large loan from SCO Financial Fiduciary Largesse & Wagers.

SCO LAWYER: Since SCO is unable to repay the loan -- especially when you consider the thoroughly unreasonable terms of the loan itself -- SCOFFL&W has taken possession of all its assets and debts.

THE BOSS (SCO): And because SCOFFL&W had no capital to begin with...

SCO LAWYER: It is now in extreme financial peril.

THE BOSS (SCO): Call the Federal Government. Tell them to give us ridiculously large sums of money.

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Comments

SCOFFL&W

28 October 2008 - 4:20pm — Anonymous (not verified)

how long did it take you to come up with appropriate words for your meaningful abbreviation?

About 20 minutes.

28 October 2008 - 5:37pm — Christopher Wright

The first "F" and the "W" were the hardest part. The ampersand was an afterthought, but I like the way that worked out.

Groklaw picked this one up...

29 October 2008 - 7:58am — MarkHB

Its here if you're interested in any other comments that happen along (there seem to be more in the off-topic and Newspicks threads than there are actually responding to the comic, I'm afraid).

Oh, hey -- cool.

29 October 2008 - 10:32am — Christopher Wright

I half stole the idea behind this gag from a Groklaw article the other day. It's pretty cool that they noticed.

Wonderful comment.

29 October 2008 - 3:20pm — ArtistsDad

I can't find a way to point to a specific Groklaw comment so ...

The truly ridiculous thing
Authored by: elderlycynic on Wednesday, October 29 2008 @ 05:25 AM EDT
Is that it is hard for a non-lawyer to distinguish what is
going on in the courts from Ubersoft's satire.The truly ridiculous thing

I can't think of one clear criterion which I could give to
an observer from the planet Gnomon, to tell it how to
distinguish the satire from the reality.

My own reaction is ... "The words! They burn! THEY BURN!!".