Back in the 1970s, the heirs of Lord Richard Buckley sued Jimmy Buffett for singing his profanity-laced iteration of “God’s Own Drunk”, which allegedly was pilfered from a Buckley monologue.
Jimmy responded by stopping his concerts and having everyone (who wasn’t too drunk or high) to write down the name and phone number of the lawyer who was suing him on behalf of the Buckley heirs, thereby resulting in such counsel’s law office being swamped with irate phone calls from Buffett’s fans.
Jimmy also wrote a song entitled “The Lawyer and the Asshole”.
June 18th, 2012 at 12:56 pm
“Loser pays” laws will put jake-legs like Cameron out of business.
I hope that other states follow the leadership of Texas in passing tort reform with teeth in it.
June 18th, 2012 at 2:49 pm
Back in the 1970s, the heirs of Lord Richard Buckley sued Jimmy Buffett for singing his profanity-laced iteration of “God’s Own Drunk”, which allegedly was pilfered from a Buckley monologue.
Jimmy responded by stopping his concerts and having everyone (who wasn’t too drunk or high) to write down the name and phone number of the lawyer who was suing him on behalf of the Buckley heirs, thereby resulting in such counsel’s law office being swamped with irate phone calls from Buffett’s fans.
Jimmy also wrote a song entitled “The Lawyer and the Asshole”.
This link sums up the matter fairly well:
http://www.buffettworld.com/incidents/sued-for-gods-own-drunk/
June 18th, 2012 at 3:08 pm
The Oatmeal’s response
June 18th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
I can solve this super-easily with an address for that idiot and a trip to Lowe’s for a 2×4.
June 18th, 2012 at 5:22 pm
CA has Anti-SLAPP laws that shift the attys fees back to the plaintiff on 1st Amendment cases, so The Oatmeal should be OK.
My favorite Oatmeal tweet so far is “this is like a man with his dick in a hornet’s nest trying to solve the problem by shoving his balls in too.”