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• 1/24/2008 8:37 PM Anonymous Web Guy wrote:
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  1. 5/21/2010 1:09 AM SEO wrote:
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     1. 2/26/2011 9:37 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Here's an exit interview of test-takers in Ontario, California, emerging from the three-day grueling marathon better known as the California Bar Exam:
        
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUPqN5QCGFc&feature=related
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        1. 3/1/2011 2:33 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           "Afternoon Delight," STARLAND VOCAL BAND:
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk_F4eWnjQY&feature=related
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           1. 3/1/2011 3:00 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Good Lord, I'm gettin' old. But keep me searchin' for a heart o' gold:
              
              Neil Young, "Heart of Gold" :
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fXaC07X5M8
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              1. 3/1/2011 2:53 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 This cover of "Heart of Gold" is solid.
                 JOHNNY CASH:
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drsMyeXzLSo&NR=1
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              2. 3/2/2011 2:46 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 "Smells Like Teen Spirit," NIRVANA, featuring Kurt Cobain:
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3bn97zd4RE
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                 1. 3/18/2011 5:43 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    "Life Is A Highway," Tom Cochrane:
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3sMjm9Eloo
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                    1. 3/20/2011 4:58 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       In the days when there were only seven television stations, no cable, no satellite...before XBox, before IPad, and before the internet...and when touch-tone telephones were NEW and you actually DIALED a circular dial with most telephones...there were simpler, gentler toys. Like Digger the Dog:
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=287kYEWYols
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                       1. 3/22/2011 4:52 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          I remember when Doritos first came out. They were dee-lish! Anything with MSG just has to taste darn good.
                          
                          Anyway, way before Doritos were the tasty treat that me and my friends loved to eat. And, we LOVED to sing the jingle and to watch the commercial for Fritos starring the Frito Bandito:
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOUilxJWm24
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                          1. 3/24/2011 8:28 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             Here's a video with quotes purportedly from a California Bar exam grader:
                             
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FG_qQcLyuY
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                             1. 3/25/2011 10:00 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                Remember when rap music was about jokes and stories?
                                
                                Remember when rap music was about "the hibby to the hibby de bee?"
                                
                                Remember when Tupac Shakur didn't have "Thug Life" tattooed across his chest and when he was just a member of a West Coast rap group called Digital Underground with a main character named Humpty Hump?
                                
                                "Humpty Hump," Digital Underground:
                                
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj9_yW8tZxs
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                                1. 3/25/2011 8:28 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   In order to handle the challenge of the 2011 FYLSE California Baby Bar exam, you're gonna have to take the wise advice of the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, and THINK!
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdi2q5Q9y50
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                                   1. 3/29/2011 7:17 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      "My Sharona," The Knack:
                                      
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVdnqEyToqg
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                                      1. 3/29/2011 7:21 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                         Tommy Tutone, "867=5309 / Jenny Jenny"
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkpGQUflBwU
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                                         1. 3/29/2011 7:51 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                            Elvis Aaron Presley, THE KING,
                                            "Don't Be Cruel" :
                                            
                                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_XXtuOvKcg
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                                         2. 3/29/2011 8:38 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                            This tune is a RIP OFF of Secret Agent Man:
                                            Tommy Tutone, "867-5309 / Jenny Jenny"
                                            
                                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkpGQUflBwU
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            JOHNNY RIVERS, "Secret Agent Man"
                                            
                                            
                                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaR3WO71j4
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                                            1. 3/31/2011 1:17 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                               "Is She Really Going Out With Him?"
                                               Joe Jackson:
                                               
                                               http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5BaurXMmMU
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                                               1. 4/10/2011 8:17 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                                  "I've Got Something to Shout About!"
                                                  THE DIXIE HUMMINGBIRDS:
                                                  
                                                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abkn2HPwEXg
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                                                  1. 5/15/2011 10:50 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                                     BLACK SABBATH, "Iron Man"
                                                     
                                                     
                                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjbMVXj0F8
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                                                     1. 5/15/2011 11:59 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                                        JOHNNY HORTON, "North to Alaska" :
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSt0NEESrUA
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                          2. 4/13/2011 4:43 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             Do ya think this BluBlocker rapper got paid for his contribution and talent? Probably not.
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWMPDklkJpA&feature=related
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                             1. 5/12/2011 5:43 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                Chuck Barris, host and creator of "The Gong Show"--the precursor to American Idol and other talent shows--was one funny dude! My favorite line is when some guy with a horrible voice was gonged while he was torturing the audience with his off-key warbling. Chuck Barris said that he actually LIKED the guy's singing. Chuck Barris then said, "But then again...I like falling out of trees."
                                
                                Laugh riot. Here's Gene Gene the Dancin' Machine:
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACpNVD5GMUw
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                                1. 5/19/2011 3:06 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   Tommy Dorsey, "March of the Toys"
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZ2ZEyUWLQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZ2ZEyUWLQ
                                   
                                   
                                   "March of the Wooden Soldiers," Laurel and Hardy:
                                   
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZ2ZEyUWLQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZ2ZEyUWLQ
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                                   1. 5/19/2011 3:08 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      CORRECTED LINK:
                                      
                                      LAUREL AND HARDY, "March of the Wooden Soldiers" :
                                      
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDdhg8CyeUo
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                                      1. 5/24/2011 8:39 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                         Here are some last minute tips for those about to take the June 2011 FYLSE:
                                         
                                         http://lawyerist.com/12-tips-successful-bar-exam/
                                         
                                         Studying for the bar exam
                                         
                                         4. Stick to study habits that worked for you while you were in school. If your pattern was studying five hours a day, trying to work for 12-hour stretches may be counter-productive. Whether you take a bar review class or study on your own, take as many real-time practice essay tests as possible. Thousands of sample Multistate Bar exam questions are available. Whether your state drafts its own or uses the Multistate Performance Test (MPT) questions, find them all and practice, practice, practice.
                                         
                                         5. Study groups are a gamble. Unless you are continuing with the group you have been in since Torts, finding an appropriate rhythm with strangers has the potential to detract from purposeful and productive studying.
                                         
                                         6. Exercise and eat right. Meeting the pizza delivery guy does not count as exercise unless you climb down 30 flights of stairs to get it. Sugar, fat, salt, and caffeine are not food groups.
                                         
                                         7. Do not talk to other test-takers for two weeks before the exam. Your friends will remember things that you have never heard of and they will confuse you with their notions of arcane issues of trust law. Don’t let yourself be distracted.
                                         
                                         Taking the bar exam
                                         
                                         8. Top tool: a wrist watch. You will not be able to use your cell phone’s clock, so beg, borrow, but do not steal a watch, and set it to 12 o’clock. Calculate the time allowed for each question, and write the time on your exam sheet. After one hour (1 o’clock) on a 60-minute question, you must move on. Whatever small number of points that you might earn for writing 30 minutes beyond that allotted time will not make up for missing a question entirely. You get no points for questions that you skip.
                                         
                                         9. Read the questions. Read them again. Follow the instructions. If you are asked to write a memo to a client, do it. If you are hand-writing the exam and are instructed to write on every other line on every other page, do it. Whether writing or typing, know that a live person will read your answers. Make it as easy as possible for that person to give you points.
                                         
                                         10. Using IRAQ, outline your answers, and do not start to write before you think carefully. The late Earle Kyle IV, who graded seven rounds of bar exams, often advised University of Minnesota Law School students that bar exam graders can tell if you write without a plan because relevant issues surface after you have dissected red herrings. You may get points for something on your outline. Can’t remember the law? He suggesting discussing the facts.
                                         
                                         11. Telepathy is not a bar exam tool. Kyle advised students that their exams are graded against a grid. He noted that bar exam graders do not know what you know, and that test takers should write down everything. For a ConLaw question, write: “This is a Constitutional Law Question. [1 point] It involves state action [1 point].”
                                         
                                         12. Do not risk y
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                       2. 3/26/2011 9:47 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          Action Jackson was THE toy we all coveted as kids. Action Jackson had a secret storage bin for his weapons!
                          
                          Heck yeah!
                          
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAE5DtEANTc&feature=related
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                          1. 4/2/2011 4:07 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             Here's an interesting video on Bar Exam techniques:
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmCDSuchprI
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                             1. 4/21/2011 7:38 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                TOMTOM CLUB, "Wordy Rapping Hood (Words are Wordsworth!)":
                                
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv87iUjrJn0
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                                1. 4/22/2011 6:20 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   Blossom Dearie, "My Attorney Bernie" :
                                   
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCNHMPB7u3Q&feature=related
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                                   1. 5/12/2011 1:09 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      Mr. Mystery Web Guy is The MAN!
                                      
                                      
                                      Thanks Dude!
                                      
                                      You are so awesome!
                                      
                                      You ain't no pusher man. You are the awesome man!
                                      
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv7AbxqxXag&feature=related
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                                      1. 5/14/2011 3:37 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                         Otis Redding, "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" :
                                         
                                         
                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nA18g_PwG0
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                                2. 5/16/2011 3:15 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   Christopher Walken is brilliant! Sometimes...a person just must have, needs to have, gotta have...MORE COWBELL:
                                   
                                   
                                   http://www.funnyhub.com/videos/pages/snl-more-cowbell.html
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                                   1. 5/22/2011 3:33 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      AMERICA, "Horse With No Name"
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdsHfZG19HM&feature=related
                                      
                                      This is poetry. This is music. This is sublime.
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                                      1. 5/23/2011 12:11 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                         Bar Exam Lecture, Inchoate Crimes, Criminal Law:
                                         
                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=funU8p5JbPE
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              3. 5/15/2011 2:26 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 LEE FIELDS.
                 
                 LEGEND.
                 
                 Nuff said.
                 
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09W20HEzwck
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                 1. 5/16/2011 2:35 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    JAMES BROWN, LIVE!
                    
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwsvegqkat8
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                    1. 5/30/2011 7:41 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       TOM WAITS, "Step Right Up"
                       
                       No doubt the funkiest, jazziest, hippest...
                       
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URp-Dbhr7EU
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           2. 3/1/2011 3:51 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              "Let Them In," Eagles, featuring
              Paul McCartney
              
              Some one is Knockin' at the door:
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUG1boE8SH8
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              1. 3/1/2011 9:50 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 Here's advice to First Time Takers of the California Bar Exam:
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgNa3sBqrzY&feature=related
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                 1. 3/2/2011 6:47 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    This is an interesting approach to the MBE portion of the California Bar Exam:
                    
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6C5JS-P4ko&feature=related
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                    1. 3/3/2011 3:08 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       A great reason to thank God that you're an American is that the USA is the land of inventiveness, creativity, and genius.
                       
                       Case in point, the Little Rascals and that engineer, Stymie:
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bYVhEDdyNo&NR=1&feature=fvwp
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                       1. 3/3/2011 3:38 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          "Tijuana Taxi," Herb Alpert:
                          
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5pl6W2CFE
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                          1. 3/3/2011 11:04 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             "The Sting," starring Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and Robert Shaw (the captain from "Jaws"--here sounding like 007's Sean Connery):
                             
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCfflhAHbT0
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                             1. 3/3/2011 6:13 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                "Accidents Will Happen," Elvis Costello:
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGPEINYTZGg&feature=fvsr
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                                1. 3/4/2011 6:12 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   LOUIS PRIMA, as King Louie in Walt Disney's "Jungle Book,"
                                   
                                   "I Wanna Be Like You!"
                                   
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hdrcDDqRHk&feature=related
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                                   1. 3/4/2011 10:34 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      PAUL ROBESON, "Old Man River," from "Showboat" (1936):
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9WayN7R-s
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                                      1. 3/18/2011 5:56 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                         "Sixteen Tons," TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD:
                                         
                                         
                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0
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                                         1. 3/18/2011 7:24 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                            MUDDY WATERS, "I Just Want To Make Love To You" :
                                            
                                            
                                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnlvHP1AXPo
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                                   2. 3/5/2011 6:29 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      This young man, Stevo Poulin, clearly outmatches his opponents. Though ALLEGEDLY only eight-years-old, he has the skills of a varsity wrestler ten years older. His skill-set alone is HIGHLY impressive!
                                      
                                      Had I had to face him at that age, I would stare him down eye-ball to eye-ball, and I would have to wear a fearsome mohawk just like him. And, I would give him what-for over and over again!
                                      
                                      Here's Stevo:
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3iYgKebLus
                                      
                                      
                                      It is obvious that intimidation and mind-control are a big part of Stevo's game. When he reaches high school, there will be a FEW opponents who won't be intimidated by his tactics. That's when it will be ON.
                                      
                                      Remember when everybody took a prat-fall before the mighty Mike Tyson? Until, some no-name called Buster Douglas called Tyson's bluff?
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                                      1. 3/5/2011 9:51 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                         Here's Mike Tyson when he could make an opponent soil his pants by the opponent just thinking--just dreaming--just having a nightmare about the prospect of facing
                                         MIKE TYSON:
                                         
                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v0vl6iTlC4
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                                         1. 3/6/2011 7:12 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                            MUHAMMAD ALI:
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvDok3kjB7c
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                                            1. 3/6/2011 8:30 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                               Dramatic music set to the EPIC showdown between Vietnam Tom and an arrogant cocky blowhard who gets a well-deserved beatdown on an Oakland, California transit bus:
                                               
                                               http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WnX12OM_Qs&feature=related
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                                               1. 3/11/2011 11:10 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                                  No, Stevo Poulin is NOT Baby Fenster from Bugs Bunny's "Baby Buggy Bunny" :
                                                  
                                                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ETdHOmxJgY
                                                  
                                                  Fenster? With TATTOOS? And smokin' a CIGAR?
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                                                  1. 3/18/2011 7:35 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                                     Stevo Poulin is NOT lookin' for an Easter Egg from Bugs Bunny!
                                                     
                                                     
                                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gFL7FBe_PA
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                                               2. 3/29/2011 1:31 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                                  General Patton famously said that Americans love a Winner.
                                                  
                                                  Americans also LOVE self-defense and Americans LOVE a justified beat-down. Here is a tribute to the muse of Vietnam Tom/AKA Epic Beard Man:
                                                  
                                                  
                                                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQLT1AaDZug&playnext=1&list=PLCDFA033F8F069B6A
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                                   3. 3/5/2011 6:45 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      "I eat soup and minestrone,
                                      Just to be with her alone,
                                      Angelina!"
                                      
                                      THE GREAT LOUIS PRIMA:
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIJzpdJIdmI
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                                   4. 3/7/2011 2:05 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      PHIL COLLINS, "You'll Be in My Heart" :
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqV5R7q6NNo
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                                   5. 3/10/2011 10:26 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      LOUIS PRIMA, "PENNIES FROM HEAVEN" :
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pELxwTp7gk
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                       2. 3/4/2011 6:25 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          Holla at ya, Stymie. Where you at?
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0DfZspGXMU&feature=related
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                          1. 3/5/2011 8:05 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             "I Cover the Waterfront," by the GREAT LOUIS ARMSTRONG:
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjpFLuN62IQ
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                             1. 3/18/2011 8:23 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                Lester Young, "Prez," Billie Holliday's saxophonist, with "I Cover the Waterfront":
                                
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQpYL4fOSwU&NR=1&feature=fvwp
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                                1. 4/19/2011 11:27 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard," PAUL SIMON:
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Cfrl7hMoQ
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                                   1. 4/19/2011 11:34 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      THE DIXIE HUMMINGBIRDS and PAUL SIMON, "Loves Me Like a Rock" :
                                      
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3BJl5Zy7HQ&feature=related
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                       3. 3/5/2011 11:06 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          The Little Rascals are the epitome of American cinema--in my opinion.
                          
                          Here is the synopsis of each episode:
                          
                          http://www.lifesmith.com/rascals.html
                          
                          
                          My very favorite episode is "The Pooch" which starred Stymie as a kid trying to save his dog, Petey, from euthanasia at the dog pound.
                          
                          Here's Spanky feeding Petey:
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys-HmWOtXJQ
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                          1. 3/6/2011 10:08 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             Wrestling is HUGE in the New Jersey-New York-Pennsylvania area. Just as big as high school football is in Texas or in Florida.
                             
                             In fact, one of the moves that was popular during my high school wrestling days was the Lehigh ride, named after Lehigh (Pennsylvania) University wrestlers.
                             
                             I went to wrestling camp in Bloomington, Indiana after my high school freshman year. I learned from Doug Blubaugh, the gold medal Olympic champion of 1960 (the same Olympics that Cassius Clay [Muhammad Ali] won the gold medal).
                             
                             What I learned from Doug Blubaugh is that winning is a mental attitude. What separates a winner from a loser is the belief in one's ability to do what has to be done.
                             
                             I heard an NPR radio show a few weeks ago about professional athletes who all possess roughly the same level of talent. However, some are winners and others are losers. Some pro athletes make the clutch play. Others choke.
                             
                             What separates clutch from choke? Mental attitude. Someone--and I don't remember who--said that a clutch player is calm, cool, and collected and executes their game plan UNDER STRESS.
                             
                             Choke players lose all their marbles under stress.
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                             1. 3/6/2011 10:29 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                The only time I ever saw--and held--an Olympic gold medal was when Doug Blubaugh allowed us have that honor at wrestling camp.
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmhHReCkR6k&feature=related
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                                1. 3/6/2011 1:01 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   Doug Blubaugh winning the 1960 Olympic Gold Medal over Iran's Habibi:
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0AVmEp3U-8&feature=fvwrel
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                                   1. 3/9/2011 10:07 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Mike Tyson spoofed on "In Living Color" :
                                      
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcRXptrTL3s
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                                      1. 3/10/2011 6:33 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                         FRANK SINATRA, "MY WAY" :
                                         
                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2hYDIFDIU
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                                         1. 3/10/2011 6:49 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                            To all test-takers of the June 2011 FYLSE California Baby Bar exam:
                                            
                                            The odds ARE stacked against you.
                                            Statistically, you ARE supposed to lose.
                                            
                                            Do you accept that?
                                            
                                            Rocky didn't accept that.
                                            
                                            "Rocky," Sylvester Stallone:
                                            
                                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3MFBzMH2o&feature=related
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                                            1. 3/17/2011 3:04 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                               ERIN GO BRAGH !
                                               
                                               http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CewyTGQR9Pw
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                                               1. 3/17/2011 5:51 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                                  Happy St. Patrick's Day
                                                  to Denroy Morgan!
                                                  
                                                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVTEEeOEfKw
                                                  
                                                  
                                                  
                                                  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley
                                                  
                                                  Bob Marley was born in the village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica as Nesta Robert Marley.[7] A Jamaican passport official would later swap his first and middle names.[8] His father, Norval Sinclair Marley, was a white Jamaican of English descent whose family came from Essex, England. Norval was a captain in the Royal Marines, as well as a plantation overseer, when he married Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican then 18 years old.[9] Norval provided financial support for his wife and child, but seldom saw them, as he was often away on trips. In 1955, when Marley was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack at age 60.[10] Marley faced questions about his own racial identity throughout his life. He once reflected:
                                                  
                                                  I don't have prejudice against meself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.[11]
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                                      2. 3/27/2011 7:14 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                         HOMER SIMPSON versus DREDERICK (Mike Tyson) TATUM:
                                         
                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONFVIfrPQxc
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                                         1. 4/24/2011 5:29 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                            "Psycho Killer," Talking Heads:
                                            
                                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Smge23DCE8
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                                            1. 5/21/2011 4:00 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                               If rap music is at its nadir now,
                                               Then this is rap at its zenith.
                                               
                                               NINE, "Whutcha Want"
                                               
                                               featuring OTIS REDDING's "Sitting at the Dock of the Bay"
                                               
                                               
                                               http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuvBpGVANYA
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           3. 5/17/2011 6:22 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Bryan Adams, "Best Days of My Life" :
              
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f06QZCVUHg
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              1. 5/19/2011 12:24 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 JAMES BROWN, "Money Won't Change You (But Time Will Take You Out!)"
                 
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLEf6ydEnr4&feature=fvwrel
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                 1. 6/7/2011 9:23 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    "She's a Bad Mamma Jamma!"
                    CARL CARLTON
                    
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sl5VurCaIQ
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                    1. 7/20/2011 10:14 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       "You Sexy MF"
                       
                       PRINCE
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4oDcsaEvEE
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        2. 4/5/2011 9:34 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           The California Bar Exam is a BEAST:
           
           http://www.sfbsearch.com/content.cfm/ID/20004
           
           "The essay section of the Bar Exam is given in two sessions: Tuesday and Thursday mornings, during which applicants have three hours to answer three questions. Knowledge of general principles of law, rather than specific California Law, is required in the following areas: community property, civil procedure, Constitutional law, contracts, corporations, criminal law and procedure, evidence, professional responsibility, real property, remedies, torts, trusts, and wills.
           
           There are two performance tests: Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, consisting of a three-hour writing project. The projects vary, but may include preparing a memo of points and authorities, a memo of law to a senior partner, an appellate brief, a closing argument, a discovery plan and interrogatories, or a client letter. Test-takers are given a packet of instructions, factual data, statutes, cases, and memoranda from a hypothetical law firm to use in preparing the requested project."
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     2. 6/10/2011 8:43 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        For those preparing for the October 2011 FYLSE California Baby Bar exam, you are spot-on for gearing up NOW!
        
        When I was a kid, there were magazines full of puzzles and mazes. A maze would be complicated with a lot of dead-ends. I figured out how to beat the maze after a few attempts.
        
        How do you beat a maze? Simple. You must start with the goal...and then work yourself backwards! Here's an example:
        
        October 2011--Testing Day, travel and getting to the center on time
        September 2011--MCQ (multiple-choice questions)
        August 2011--flashcard drills, essay review, MCQ
        July 2011--Calbar essay review
        June 2011--flashcard drills
        
        In the military, we had a name for those who did NOT have a plan.
        That name?
        "Dead."
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  2. 3/19/2011 8:17 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     QUEEN, "We Will Rock You" :
     
     
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk&feature=relmfu
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     1. 3/19/2011 9:43 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt, "Ballad of Jed Clampett,"
        Theme song of THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES:
        
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_XAPku7SgE
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  3. 3/30/2011 9:57 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Karen Carpenter is a great drummer.
     
     The reason why she died so early was to wait for her true love.
     
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqjJ8xR1Me4
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     1. 4/20/2011 12:38 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        "Still the One," Orleans:
        
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbH_sDyWZqo
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  4. 5/1/2011 8:47 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA, "Telephone Line"
     
     
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV7Ei2xI6Oo&feature=fvst
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     1. 5/22/2011 10:08 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        There is an effort by the Administration to make speech plain in these United States of America. That is a good thing.
        There is a saying: “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.”
        Dorothy Parker, the great satirist, wrote “You can lead a “horse” to culture, but you can’t make her think!"
        Dorothy Parker was a laugh riot.
        As far as the Plain English initiative by the Administration, this push is also evident in the legal world. Courts are becoming increasingly impatient with “high-horse” verbiage and pedantic blatherings spouted by know-it-alls who pontificate at length using legalistic jargon and convoluted obfuscations.
        Speak plain English, please.
        When I took the October 2009 FYLSE California Baby Bar exam, I first did my initial reconnaissance on the internet. I discovered that California Bar graders are NOT impressed with legalistic mumbo jumbo.
        Firstly, these bar graders have better things to do with their time than to delight in some asinine drollery. Secondly, these bar graders are paid VERY little to grade exam books. Thirdly, these bar graders may have been born at night…but they were not born LAST night.
        You just cannot think that you can pull a fast one on these bar graders.
        Plain English is the way to go.
        When I had done my initial reconnaissance, I determined that my October 2009 FYLSE exam books were going to be crisp, clear, and to the point.
        I did NOT take professional bar prep training. I did NOT use a laptop. I DID pass the October 2009 FYLSE on my very first attempt. I flew from New Jersey to Ontario, California to test.
        I understand that only 19% of the total test-takers in Ontario and in San Francisco actually were successful. The moral of the story here is that being “average” and being “ordinary” meant that you did NOT pass the exam.
        I am NOT getting on my “high-horse” about this. Any “high-horse” in my stable has long been shot and sent to the glue factory or to the dog-food packing plant.
        In fact, in this post, my intention and purpose is to encourage and uplift. My objective is NOT to discourage and break down.
        High falutin fancy-pants antics are great over cocktails at dinner with friends, but bar graders are NOT impressed with legalistic mumbo jumbo.
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv87iUjrJn0&feature=related
        
        
        
        --Scrivener5
        
        
        http://www.plainlanguage.gov/
        http://lezgetreal.com/2011/05/the-new-washington-speak-english/
        The New “Washington-Speak” – English
        05-19-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell
        Last fall, President Obama signed into law a bill to make Federal documents more understandable to ordinary citizens. Called The Plain Writing Act, it is particularly intended to make it easier for Americans to make sense of benefit applications, and hopefully their tax forms. It is limited to new or substantially revised documents for the time being and goes into effect in October. The financial services reform law contained a similar provision, to make mortgage paperwork more understandable. My mortgage document
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  5. 5/24/2011 3:34 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     This probably the BEST rap tune created. It is ugly. It is basic. But, yes, it is the VERY best.
     
     
     Old Dirty Bastid:
     
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITLNzPoEqs
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  6. 6/11/2011 2:47 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     "Dance Me to the End of Love"
     
     Madeline Peyroux
     
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl-cVgAU8K8
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  7. 6/13/2011 7:50 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Two more weeks until the June 2011 California Baby Bar exam.
     
     Stay FOCUSED. Be relaxed!
     
     
     http://www.barmadeeasy.com/blog/
     
     You Don’t Have To Know All The Law
     
     The fear of not knowing enough law should not prevent students from taking practice examinations. Practice examinations will enable students to start applying the legal theories that have been studying.
     
     If an issue is missed in an examination, the student can go back, review the facts of the question, review the model outline and/or answer and determine at that point why the issue was missed.
     
     In fact since these are practice examinations, why not keep study materials open and available so if an area of law has not been mastered, it can then be reviewed on the spot.
     
     The lesson here is even after spending several weeks studying an area of the law; if issues are missed in an examination, zero credit will be awarded even though the material had been well studied. The earlier this examination process is understood, the more efficient students will become in writing their answers.
     
     There is an old joke that fits this premise. A tourist stopped an old man on the road in New York and asked the old man, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” The old man replied, “Practice, Practice, Practice.” The practice of writing essay examinations is similar to that of learning how to ride a bicycle in that the required skills are not inherent but have to be learned. A child begins learning to ride on a big wheel or some low riding plastic bike that allows small feet to touch the ground. In time, a tricycle is introduced and soon after a two-wheel big bike with training wheels comes out of the garage. After many, many afternoons of patience and practice, the training wheels are removed only to allow the child the greatest feeling of freedom riding the two-wheel bicycle with confidence and style.
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  8. 6/17/2011 6:15 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     The Beatles are so basic to us as Shakespeare or our own DNA.
     
     "Let It Be"
     
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdopMqrftXs
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  9. 6/17/2011 10:06 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Flavor Flav is quite the character.
     
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBlMrGgpwXE
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  10. 6/17/2011 11:21 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
      Nancy Sinatra,
      
      "These Boots are Made for Walkin'"
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRkovnss7sg
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  11. 6/21/2011 3:53 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
      Some folk just NEVER learn.
      
      Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny.
      
      "Shoot him/me NOW!"
      
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyPFQKpRnd0
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  12. 6/23/2011 11:50 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
      I have been to the Ontario, California Testing Center. I have encountered the FYLSE California Baby Bar exam. I faced it.
      
      It is NO picnic.
      
      One Question:
      
      Do you FEAR death?
      
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo-OYwh6KHA
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  13. 7/1/2011 2:44 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
      Michael Jackson,
      
      "Remember the Time"
      
      
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeiFF0gvqcc
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      1. 7/1/2011 3:12 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
         AC DC
         
         
         TNT
         
         
         
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtaALqyQhuA
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         1. 7/2/2011 3:11 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
            ABBA
            "Dancing Queen"
            
            
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REElUors1pQ
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  14. 7/1/2011 5:14 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
      I remember when Monty Python came on late Sunday nights.
      
      Good times!
      
      After Monty Python, was Benny Hill.
      
      
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
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  15. 7/1/2011 7:45 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
      Jimmy Castor Bunch
      
      BERTHA BUTT BOOGIE
      
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki8u8G2WZbI
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  16. 7/2/2011 12:04 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
      CONFIDENCE AND CHARISMA.
      
      Elvis Aaron Presley:
      
      "In the Ghetto"
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ox1Tore9nw&feature=related
      
      The WWE/WWF International Champion,
      
      THE HONKY TONK MAN:
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHr9Otnv4QA
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  17. 7/8/2011 7:49 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
      The Philistines in the movie, "Dead Man" starring Johnny Depp:
      
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0uUM9tGY5Q
      
      
      The Philisitnes recently uncovered:
      
      In Israel, diggers unearth the Bible's bad guys
      
      By MATTI FRIEDMAN - Associated Press 7-8-2011
      
      
      TEL EL-SAFI, Israel (AP) — At the remains of an ancient metropolis in southern Israel, archaeologists are piecing together the history of a people remembered chiefly as the bad guys of the Hebrew Bible.
      
      
      The city of Gath, where the annual digging season began this week, is helping scholars paint a more nuanced portrait of the Philistines, who appear in the biblical story as the perennial enemies of the Israelites.
      
      Close to three millennia ago, Gath was on the frontier between the Philistines, who occupied the Mediterranean coastal plain, and the Israelites, who controlled the inland hills. The city's most famous resident, according to the Book of Samuel, was Goliath — the giant warrior improbably felled by the young shepherd David and his sling.
      
      The Philistines "are the ultimate other, almost, in the biblical story," said Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University, the archaeologist in charge of the excavation.
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  18. 7/15/2011 1:53 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
      THREE DOG NIGHT
      
      "I Must Let the Show Go On!"
      
      
      
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8aprCNnecU
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      1. 7/15/2011 4:01 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
         CORRECTED LINK:
         
         THREE DOG NIGHT
         
         
         
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaOJwaiOsUs
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  19. 7/15/2011 4:43 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
      RICHARD PRYOR gets a shoe shine from Richard Pryor.
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFAwwclD1ms
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  20. 7/16/2011 3:44 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
      Today is the 30th anniversary of the car crash that claimed the life of
      HARRY CHAPIN.
      
      "Cat's in the Cradle"
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH46SmVv8SU
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  21. 7/17/2011 5:44 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
      B-52's
      
      "People get drunk.
      They play the wrong game.
      You know--
      It can RUIN your name!"
      
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR2G-iI3-I&feature=related
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      1. 7/17/2011 5:49 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
         CORRECTED LINK
         
         B-52's
         
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAukUL1volI
         
         "Party Gone Out of Bounds"
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  22. 7/19/2011 5:19 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
      Before the Old Guy from Six Flags doing his frantic stepping...
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze72uyZfY5Q
      
      
      was the Little Rascals' Grandma doing backflips and warming up for her boxing match:
      
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-z80QosqHc
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• 8/30/2009 8:46 PM Wiliam Relyea wrote:
  Nelson,
  
  Thanks for the valuable insights, and now back to the writing of more essays. And the continued finger exercises needed to type quickly during timed tests.
  
  As you know from having spent such a considerable amount of time working on the FYLSX and assisting those of us who are in the process of passing the test...Practice, as you have mentioned is vital. For thus of us not in the legal profession, and who work full time in another profession that does not use legal analysis on a daily basis...the type of writing used to pass the FYLSX is different and requires a different mind set...One has to have the writing in an acceptable format on the first pass...It is not a draft...Drafts are not allowed... other than what is on your scratch paper. The essay is the final document and has to read in an acceptable manner on the first writing. Most of us in a business other than law, have been trained to write drafts and then rewrite to hone the discussion and come up with a final document. Which includes a conclusion in an executive summary type of format...This is a problem on the FYLSX and a stumbling block to those of us who write business memos and other business correspondence.
  
  Why...?
  
  The FYLSX does not give you the option to write in draft mode because of the time constraints.
  
  
  What works...? I am still working to answer this question. Thus far I have this to add...
  
  The ability to outline is vital, the outline should name the parties, identify their issues, create the laundry list, expand upon it and then state the rationale for how the facts within the given pattern lead towards the majority position or in some instance the minority position and then discuss the probable outcome based on these traditional positions. Thus we are not discussing a conclusion in the traditional sense, but a legal standing...The word conclusion in IRAC is misleading...
  
  There are my two cents in the world of the FYLSX.
  
  Best regards, Bill
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  1. 5/21/2010 1:13 AM Web Design Kent wrote:
     I was just thinking about That Auction and you've really helped out. Thanks!
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     1. 3/11/2011 7:54 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        The June 2011 FYLSE Baby Bar exam is almost here...are you ready?
        
        As I've mentioned before, my son, who is scheduled to graduate from college this year, once asked me why I never taught high school. And, the look on my face gave him his answer.
        
        To those high school teachers among us...you have my sympathies! There is no way in heck that I can imagine myself teaching some arrogant, cocky, lazy, good-for-nothing who feels privileged and entitled to everything and anything.
        
        Okay. Back on point. The June 2011 FYLSE Baby Bar exam is upon us.
        
        Are you ready?
        
        Do you know your elements?
        
        I mean really, really, know your elements?
        
        Okay, then. Pop quiz: What are the elements of burglary?
        
        Remember, that it is NOT good enough just to be familiar with the elements. Kinda sorta is just NOT good enough. In the military, there was a specific name for those troops who were kinda familiar with a task...dead troops.
        
        Being kinda sorta familiar just ain't good enough.
        
        You've got to know your elements until you can do them in your sleep.
        
        Okay. Here are the elements of burglary off the top of my head. Maybe I've left out one or two, but my recollection is probably still good for taking the FYLSE...if I had to do it over again. Thank God I don't!
        
        Burglary is the
        (1) trespassory
        (2) breaking
        (3) and entering
        (4) of the dwelling house
        (5) of another
        (6) at night
        (7) with the intention to commit a felony
        (8) therein.
        
        Those are the elements of burglary, as I remember them off the top of my head. If you get a fact-pattern with burglary involved, then be prepared to prove up each and every element. If there is an element or two missing, then be prepared to ANALYZE that darn fact-pattern and EXPLAIN why.
        
        Leave nothing to chance.
        
        
        I burned these elements into my brain as I prepared for the October 2009 FYLSE California Baby Bar exam.
        
        It was the first, and only, time I had to take the FYLSE.
        
        Best of outcomes!
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        1. 3/15/2011 1:49 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           So, you might ask, what EXACTLY is the FYLSE California Baby Bar exam like?
           
           Imagine that you are PEE-WEE HERMAN. And,
           imagine that the FYLSE is Large Marge:
           
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Pdlxd_rro
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           1. 3/18/2011 2:33 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              "THE PEE-WEE HERMAN DANCE," Joeski Love:
              
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82hS6voNnwQ
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              1. 3/24/2011 6:36 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 "TOO COOL," The Royal Rumble Dance with Rikishi, Scotty Too Hottie, and Grandmaster SexAY
                 
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvJS5n-mKbw
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                 1. 3/29/2011 9:39 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    (1) I dig Elvis impersonators.
                    (2) I dig comedy
                    (3) I dig wrestling.
                    
                    Ergo, my favorite WWF/WWE champion is:
                    
                    THE HONKY TONK MAN!
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHr9Otnv4QA
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                    1. 4/21/2011 6:00 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       The HONKY TONK MAN and his GREATEST HITS:
                       
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhDxFZGzUlI
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                       1. 6/27/2011 6:41 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          Some folk say that Butch from the Little Rascals looks like David Johansen (New York Dolls; AKA Buster Poindexter) as a little kid.
                          
                          Buster: HOT HOT HOT:
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vumFqn_CuGY
                          
                          
                          
                          I would have to agree with that assessment.
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           2. 4/13/2011 5:16 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Imagine that you are Sylvester. And,
              imagine the the June 2011 FYLSE is Tweety Bird just having taken Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde potion.
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFBYl87h2PM
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              1. 5/11/2011 12:16 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 Why are dangerous women so attractive?
                 
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFK4cEZZSXM&feature=related
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                 1. 5/22/2011 11:50 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    "South Park: The Movie" had a scene where the South Park kids get into an "R" rated movie. Their little lives are forever changed, altered, and transformed.
                    
                    This scene is funny to me, not just because of the script, but because it rings true to my own experiences. I, too, snuck into an "R" rated movie when I was 8 years old.
                    
                    STEVE MCQUEEN, "The Getaway" :
                    
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkLkPjVsQpQ
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                    1. 11/12/2011 10:14 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       Former Governor Jon Corzine has succeeded in running a 200 year old company into the ground. MF Global terminated 1,600 workers. They lose...the get NO severance pay!
                       
                       Ouch.
                       
                       This is such an epic tragedy. It brings a tear to the eye. In fact, such an epic tragedy moves me to write some timely verse:
                       
                       MF Global Blues
                       
                       These were NOT rich CEOs.
                       
                       Only poor schlemiels and schmos.
                       
                       No Golden Parachutes, today.
                       
                       Just leaden anchors, aweigh.
                       
                       --Scrivener5
                       
                       
                       
                       http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/11/us-mfglobal-employees-idUSTRE7AA4Q720111111?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=71
                       
                       Wed, Nov 9 2011
                       
                       MF Global fires brokerage staff en masse
                       Analysis & Opinion
                       Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:15pm EST
                       
                       NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - MF Global fired all 1,066 of its brokerage employees on Friday, triggering anger and resentment about the firm's collapse after bad bets on European debt under former CEO Jon Corzine's leadership.
                       
                       How the abrupt, final blow was delivered upset many staff -- with some learning by e-mail and others through news on the television.
                       
                       "Fifteen years and no severance!" shouted one angry MF Global employee as he left the firm's offices on 5th Avenue in Manhattan after hugging the receptionist and doorman.
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  2. 2/7/2011 8:25 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Here is an interesting take on the California Baby Bar Exam:
     
     http://babybarexam.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=babybarexam062309&action=display&thread=16
     
     What Makes the Baby Bar so Difficult?
     
     The pass rates for the California Baby Bar or First Year Law Students' Exam are low. The typical pass rate for the state is often under 20%. Students fail because they have not yet acquired the requisite analytical skills necessary to achieve a passing score on the baby bar exam.
     
     While many who fail the baby bar exam believe that they simply need to go back to reviewing the substantive law, usually an examinees' failure is due to weaknesses in their legal writing and analytical skills.
     
     It takes more than just memorizing black letter law
     
     The baby bar exam not only tests your substantive law knowledge, it goes much further in that examinees must successfully demonstrate legal analytical skills such that the examinee can:
     
     properly identify the relevant legal issues in each essay exam;
     resolve the relevant legal issues by providing a detailed and thorough application of the relevant legal principles;
     reach logical conclusions that are supported by the law and facts; and
     establish a proficiency in the substantive legal areas tested (torts, criminal law, contracts and the U.C.C.) by achieving the required passing score on the multiple choice section of the baby bar exam.
     Therefore, in order to be one of the 20% that are successful each year on the baby bar, you must develop the required writing and analytical skills and of course, learn, understand and memorize the substantive law.
     
     Successful baby bar candidates go much further than simply memorizing rule statements and checklists. While memorization is extremely important, so too is practical application of the law. It is critical to your success on the baby bar exam that you practice each section of the test repetitively in order to develop the required level of proficiency.
     
     Remember, you will not be called upon to write an outline on exam day. Instead, you will be required to read a fact pattern, identify all of the relevant legal issues, resolve each legal issue with a thorough application of the law and come to a logical conclusion that is supported by both the facts and the law. To master these skills takes a lot of practice and requires far more than just memorizing the black letter law. One of the most difficult challenges of the Baby Bar is to be able to identify the issues and to write a successful answer within the allotted time frame.
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     1. 2/9/2011 5:28 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        I ain't never seen nobody master a challenge as hard as the FYLSE California Baby Bar exam who didn't prepare like their life depended on it.
        
        "I Ain't Never," Webb Pierce
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCM5QSMuhNY
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        1. 2/9/2011 7:17 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           Eat well, study hard, get good sleep, and take the advice of this 23-year-old kid by the name of Johnny Cash, "I Walk the Line" :
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEV58ztuihs
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           1. 2/11/2011 9:32 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Congratulations in advance to all the June 2011 FYLSE test-takers! With proper discipline and FOCUSED study habits, you will win! Don't get the blues. You want to "Cakewalk into Town" like Taj Mahal:
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBGbrFlWwsE&feature=fvw
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              1. 2/12/2011 7:45 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 For those repeaters of the California FYLSE Baby Bar exam, remember that you hold the keys to your own destiny. Ignore the naysayers and press on to victory!
                 
                 "Back in the High Life Again," Steve Winwood:
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K82nMSy-IWQ
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              2. 2/13/2011 7:03 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 "Steal On Home," Thelma Houston, from the film, "Bingo Long's Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings." FYLSE California Baby Bar test-takers can CAKEWALK into town!
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs3IkiWIRls
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              3. 2/14/2011 11:45 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 Baby. It's Valentine's Day. I gotta do sumfin' for you. I will buy you a Chevrolet!
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdHTNAxNfZI
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                 1. 2/14/2011 1:52 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    Harlem Globetrotters with "Sweet Georgia Brown" :
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXbTi5GjDE
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                    1. 2/15/2011 6:40 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       Benjamin Franklin, the greatest strategist of the American colonists, and the world's GREATEST scientist, laid it on the line for the rag-tag bunch of revolutionaries: "Gentlemen, we either hang together...or we will surely hang separately."
                       
                       Al Pacino gives a similar speech in telling his football team about a game of "inches":
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4tIrjBDkk&feature=related
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                       1. 2/15/2011 4:56 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          2011 FYLSE California Bar Exam test-takers: Now is your "chance to shine and have a happy song to sing!"
                          
                          Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: "I've Got a Golden Ticket!" :
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29_uSlEEPSk
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                          1. 2/17/2011 1:28 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             "I Just Want to Get Paid," Dave Tull:
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njtGgTjjFMc
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                             1. 2/17/2011 3:10 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                "I Just Want to Get PAID!" with Dave Tull, playing drums and singing, and his mini-orchestra, with video:
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UbZvt1-_kY&feature=related
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                                1. 2/17/2011 10:45 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin.
                                   
                                   Remember your ABC's FYLSE test-takers.
                                   "ABC:
                                   A lways
                                   B e
                                   C ool (and C onducting your ANALYSIS!)"
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI&feature=related
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                                   1. 2/18/2011 11:41 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      "I Love You but I Ain't Gonna Be Your Fool," Ann MargRock, Flintstones:
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXCiS2FpmIc
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                                      1. 2/19/2011 5:32 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                         "The Littlest Lamb," Ann MargRock singing Pebbles Flintstone to sleep:
                                         
                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0aZlz63eTU&feature=related
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                                         1. 2/19/2011 8:22 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                            "Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god."--Constantin Brâncuşi (Romanian pronunciation: [konstanˈtin brɨnˈkuʃʲ]; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian-born sculptor who made his career in France.
                                            
                                            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Br%C3%A2ncu%C5%9Fi
                                            
                                            JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP, "I Need a Lover Who Won't Drive Me Crazy," :
                                            
                                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tQ3imcfaA0&feature=related
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                                            1. 2/22/2011 3:56 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                               To all of the law students of a certain age, Dave Frishberg is the guy. "He's the guy who composed the music for School House Rock."
                                               
                                               For all the kids who are confused or clueless, "School House Rock" was the educational bit that the network (I think ABC network) sandwiched in between the Saturday cartoons when we were kids like you--in the days before iPhones and Blackberrys and Google.
                                               
                                               Dave Frishberg wrote a song, "My Attorney Bernie." I had that song on cassette but one of my "frenemies"(enemies who pretend to be your friend) had larceny in his soul when he lifted it from my collection.
                                               
                                               Oh well.
                                               
                                               Here's a cover of Dave Frishberg's "My Attorney Bernie":
                                               
                                               http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3qYtIuOK8M
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                                               1. 2/22/2011 4:03 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                                  SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK, "Conjunction Juntion" :
                                                  
                                                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo
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                                                  1. 2/28/2011 6:01 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                                     Lolly Lolly Lolly
                                                     Get Your Adverbs here:
                                                     
                                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWYmEICNgOQ&feature=related
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                                                     1. 3/13/2011 9:24 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                                        June 2011 FYLSE test-takers:
                                                        What will it take to WIN?
                                                        
                                                        Work. Hard Work. Memorize your elements.
                                                        
                                                        Don't take that wrong turn at Pismo Beach!
                                                        
                                                        Get to it! Chop! Chop! Chop!
                                                        
                                                        Hassan chop!
                                                        
                                                        "Ali Baba Bunny," Bugs Bunny:
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Y3cVHk9aA&feature=related
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                          2. 2/22/2011 8:13 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             From "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" soundtrack, "The Candy Man," sung by THE Sammy Davis, Jr.
                             
                             Sammy Davis, Jr. is the GREATEST triple-threat (sing, dance, act)ever...though Cagney and Astaire aren't far behind!
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRf1Ad_Txsg
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                             1. 2/22/2011 8:21 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band made "Bojangles" but SAMMY DAVIS, JR. hijacked this tune and made it his very own.
                                
                                Here is Sammy Davis, Jr. with "Bojangles"
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMcfUjIguSs&NR=1
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                                1. 2/23/2011 7:54 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," Arthur Conley:
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpxB2pq7yk4
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                                   1. 2/23/2011 8:41 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      BOB DYLAN, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" :
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_swaxOidGU
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                                      1. 4/7/2011 1:34 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                         COUNT BASIE, "One O'Clock Jump" :
                                         
                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQi4jglT0Vo
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                          3. 2/26/2011 3:21 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             God Bless America!
                             
                             God Bless grandpa from Willy Wonka.
                             
                             God Bless the Old Guy from Six Flags.
                             
                             Oh...did I already say it?
                             
                             God Bless The United States of America!
                             
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze72uyZfY5Q
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                             1. 2/27/2011 11:43 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                Mr. Six, the Old Guy from Six Flags, struts his stuff at the park:
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaxq2fkaR-4&feature=related
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                                1. 3/3/2011 12:28 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   The "Little Miss Sunshine" scream, on her way to California to compete:
                                   
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKaYnoDFVLE
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                                   1. 3/29/2011 11:25 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      "Help Me (Baby!)," SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON II:
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXr6pS-79m8
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                                      1. 5/11/2011 4:36 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                         CURTIS MAYFIED, "Pusher Man" :
                                         
                                         
                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv7AbxqxXag&feature=related
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                 2. 3/1/2011 4:20 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    Taj Mahal is a great artist. But, Taj Mahal is stupid for letting his advisers keep the original "Fishin' Blues' from appearing on youtube. Too bad such a legend has losers on his team.
                    
                    Here's Taj's remake of his classic, "Fishin' Blues":
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mVWWmIXKxk&feature=related
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              4. 3/3/2011 7:07 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 LOUIS ARMSTRONG,"Struttin' with Some Barbecue" :
                 
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-2R_Pb7dk
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                 1. 3/3/2011 7:12 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    "Heebie Jeebies." by Louis Armstrong, is a LANDMARK tune. When he was recording it with his "Hot Five," during a chorus, his lyrics fell on the floor. Very expensive mistake in those days since there were no second and third takes.
                    
                    No worries. Louis Artmstrong continued singing and invented "scat singing" in the process:
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksmGt2U-xTE&NR=1&feature=fvwp
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                    1. 3/10/2011 1:10 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       The harder I work the luckier I get."
                       
                       
                       This famous quote has been attributed to many folk...including Thomas Jefferson (who had the benefit of a plantation of people providing the slave labor to build Monticello and to supply the wherewithal to pay off Thomas Jefferson's creditors).
                       
                       http://ezinearticles.com/?Time-Management-101---How-to-Get-More-Things-Done&id=4166184
                       
                       "I find the harder I work, the luckier I become." - Thomas Jefferson.
                       
                       
                       
                       Sam Goldwyn, of MGM movie mogul fame, is also credited:
                       
                       The harder I work, the luckier I get.
                       Samuel Goldwyn
                       
                       Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/samuelgold122307.html#ixzz1GDfcrAYF
                       
                       
                       Donald Trump quotes Benjamin Franklin:
                       
                       
                       http://www.accomplishlife.com/articles/1058/1/The-Harder-I-Work-The-Luckier-I-Get/Page1.html
                       The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get
                       "Diligence is the mother of good luck." - Benjamin Franklin
                       
                       'I've always been big on quotes, whether they're mine or someone else's, because very often they distill ideas down to their essence.' Donald Trump
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                       1. 4/13/2011 9:43 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          MICHAEL JACKSON, "A Stranger in Moscow" :
                          
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEEMi2j6lYE
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     2. 5/11/2011 2:21 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        I just want to thank Mr. Mystery Web Guy for the opportunity to be a part of his show. He is an awesome guy and we all LOVE him!!!!!
        
        "Just Another Day," Paul McCartney:
        
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw_Jao8hMPA&feature=related
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        1. 5/30/2011 1:32 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           There's that ONE idiot in your life that won't go away. It happens. As my Grand-Daddy used to say, "Don't let one monkey stop your show!"
           
           The show must go on (THREE DOG NIGHT):
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaOJwaiOsUs
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           1. 6/8/2011 6:00 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              The late, great rapper, ODB, was the type of performer who should have always appeared with a jacket.
              
              
              A straight jacket.
              
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMQ4ZFdH5c&feature=related
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  3. 3/14/2011 11:16 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     GLASS GHOST, "Bright Circumstance"
     
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ktC89X_xBU
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     1. 3/16/2011 6:35 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        For me, this is simply the GREATEST rock song ever recorded.
        
        BOB DYLAN, "Changing of the Guard" :
        
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1rc_y2cLPg
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        1. 3/16/2011 1:57 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           BOB DYLAN, "Changing of the Guard" LYRICS
           
           
           Sixteen years,
           
           Sixteen banners united over the field
           
           Where the good shepherd grieves.
           
           Desperate men, desperate women divided,
           
           Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves.
           
           
           
           Fortune calls.
           
           I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace,
           
           Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down.
           
           She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born,
           
           On midsummer's eve, near the tower.
           
           
           
           The cold-blooded moon.
           
           The captain waits above the celebration
           
           Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
           
           Whose ebony face is beyond communication.
           
           The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid.
           
           
           
           They shaved her head.
           
           She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo.
           
           A messenger arrived with a black nightingale.
           
           I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow,
           
           Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil.
           
           
           
           I stumbled to my feet.
           
           I rode past destruction in the ditches
           
           With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo.
           
           Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
           
           Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you.
           
           
           
           The palace of mirrors
           
           Where dog soldiers are reflected,
           
           The endless road and the wailing of chimes,
           
           The empty rooms where her memory is protected,
           
           Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times.
           
           
           
           She wakes him up
           
           Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
           
           Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks.
           
           She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking.
           
           He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks.
           
           
           
           Gentlemen, he said,
           
           I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes,
           
           I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
           
           But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
           
           Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.
           
           
           
           Peace will come
           
           With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
           
           But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
           
           And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
           
           Between the King and the Queen of Swords.
           
           More lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bob+dylan/#share
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     2. 3/27/2011 10:17 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        "He Gives Us All His Love," RANDY NEWMAN:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ftIm2hZrn0
        
        
        "I Love L.A.!" RANDY NEWMAN:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b5LzCOc98E&feature=related
        
        
        
        "short people," RANDY NEWMAN:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NvgLkuEtkA
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        1. 3/28/2011 1:59 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           LOUIS PRIMA and Sam Butera, "There'll Be No Next Time!" :
           
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VVYKN2JCAQ
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     3. 5/8/2011 8:04 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        National Public Radio has this excellent show on Sunday nights at 8pm EST following "This American Life." The program has a host, David Garland, who brings on live talent, not yet famous.
        
        GLASS GHOST is one of those groups that I heard on David Garland's program, "Spinning on Air."
        
        Tonight featured MARK DAVID ASHWORTH, a great guitarist-singer who sang a really, really melodically wonderful duet with a female singer...but I didn't catch the title of the tune (maybe they'll re-run the program late tonight).
        
        Anyway, here's MARK DAVID ASHWORTH with "Something We Can Hold in Our Hands," which I just found on youtube:
        
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtvpKrNWJ0k&feature=related
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        1. 5/8/2011 8:18 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           I found a link to the program, "Spinning on Air" and I got the name of the tune:
           
           "Entering the Kingdom," by MARK DAVID ASHWORTH:
           
           http://www.wnyc.org/shows/spinning/2011/may/08/
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           1. 5/10/2011 2:04 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              As you are polishing up our test-taking skills for next month's FYLSE California Baby Bar exam, you need to have confidence. The USMC motto is Semper Fidelis. A loyal canine is Fido. The faith you have in yourself will carry the day.
              
              What develops that faith in yourself, that confidence? That, my friends, is an inside job. Only soul-searching answers that question. As they say in sports, you have got to do your own gut-check. You need to search your soul and find that inner confidence.
              
              Before Jesse Ventura became Governer of Minnesota, and when he had a head of hair, he interviewed my favorite WWF/WWE wrestling champion, the Honky Tonk Man, who was having a crisis of confidence.
              
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BJR0lFGYSU
              
              
              Even the best of us have a crisis of confidence at times. My favorite baseball team, the New York Mets, are perennial losers...but I love them because I'm a fool...and a true fan. A true fan doesn't jump on any passing band-wagon that rolls by. A true fan has confidence that his team will finally get its act together!
              
              Anyway, the Mets had a relief pitcher in the early 1970s named Tug McGraw who's son is a Country and Western music star today. Tug McGraw coined this phrase that still rings true today: "You Gotta Believe!"
              
              
              
              http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/10-ways-to-instantly-build-self-confidence/
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              1. 5/12/2011 4:15 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 It is down to CRUNCH TIME!
                 
                 I know all of you preparing for the FYLSE California Baby Bar exam will WIN!
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=funU8p5JbPE
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                 1. 6/10/2011 8:27 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    Never Get Greedy.
                    
                    There is an observation that has held up true for many, many years: Never get greedy.
                    
                    This has become a mantra for me and my friends. If you look carefully at some of the most spectacular down-falls...these exercises in hubris and stupidity have resulted from folk getting too darn greedy.
                    
                    In fact, it is my observation that only the ingratitude of folk exceeds their stupidity and greed. People are too selfish and too stupid to care.
                    
                    --Bryan
                    
                    
                    
                    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110610/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_profane_benefactor
                    
                    Woman puts up $7,200 to aid customers in CA store
                    Fri Jun 10, 1:11 am ET
                    OCEANSIDE, Calif. – A woman with a foul mouth, fat wallet and dislike for men bought $7,200 worth of clothing for more than 50 women at a Southern California discount store.
                    Claudia Smith, 66, showed up at the Everything a Deal store in Oceanside on Tuesday night and bought $2,200 worth of clothing for the few customers in the store.
                    Store manager Paola Garcia said when Smith first came in, she told customers to buy whatever they wanted. They grabbed everything they could get their hands on in the store where nothing sells for more than $9.99.
                    "They were greedy," Garcia said.
                    Smith lived in San Felipe, Mexico, for several years and wanted to buy things for poor Mexican women, she told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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• 10/31/2009 10:32 AM bryan wrote:
  I would like to thank you for your great website. Your site was an important resource for me. I completed the baby bar exam this past Tuesday. I would like to discuss reflections on the October 2009 FYLSE with those who took the exam.
  Because I am limited to 3000 characters, here are the first two questions as I remember them:
  Essay One: The Political Rally
  
  The facts were that, at political rally attended by 1,000 people, the organizer at the event (in support for a challenger to the mayor) made defamatory comments about the wife of the current mayor. Based on "largely false" information he heard from a notorious gossip, he told the crowd that the mayor's wife was a snob and a cutthroat who blocked her personal friend's membership to a private women's club. The mayor's wife had actually supported her friend's membership. The mayor's wife had appeared in public for the first time two days before the event. The call of the question asked (1.) about the claims of mayor's wife and (2.)the organizer's defenses.
  
  Essay Two: The Laptop Theft
  
  In trying to recover a gambling debt, a principal sent an email to his agent friend instructing her to recover the debtor's laptop from the debtor's house. The principal led the agent to believe that the laptop belonged to the principal. In the email, the principal told her where to find the key under the doormat to the debtor's house.
  
  The email was intercepted by a third party, without knowledge of the others. When the agent arrived at the house, the door was open and the third party was ransacking the house. The agent entered through the open door and startled the third party. The third party slipped and fell, banged his head on a table, and ran away.
  
  The agent searched the house, found the laptop, and decided she wanted the laptop for herself. She put the laptop in her purse. The agent called the police. When the police arrived, the agent said that the third party stole the laptop. When the police went to the third party's house, they found him dead.
  
  The call of the question asked us to discuss the crimes and the defenses.
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     2. 3/8/2011 5:11 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        For those boning up on their rules for the June 2011 FYLSE California Baby Bar exam, best of outcomes!
        
        The following excerpt comes from Monday's newspaper. It pertains to Good Samaritan laws in New Jersey, but most importantly, it deals with a New Jersey Appellate judicial decision regarding liability.
        
        [ (1) Duty (2) Breach (3) Actual Cause (4) Proximate Cause (5) Damages ]
        
        
        I trust that all of the June 2011 FYLSE test-takers have their negligence elements down cold. You WILL need them.
        
        
        http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/nj_appellate_panel_reinstates.html
        
        
        N.J. appellate panel reinstates lawsuit filed by family of man killed trying to aid neighbor during robbery
        Published: Monday, March 07, 2011, 8:53 PM Updated: Monday, March 07, 2011, 8:54 PM
        
        IRVINGTON — A victim who calls for help in a dangerous setting could be held responsible for a Good Samaritan’s injuries if there wasn’t proper warning about the perils of the situation, a state appellate panel ruled today.
        
        The decision by the three-judge panel reinstates a lawsuit filed by the family an Irvington man who was killed after coming to the aid of a neighbor whose apartment was being robbed in 2003.
        
        The case stems from the Sept. 3, 2003 shootings of Naitil Desir and Cosme Novaly during a robbery of the office of Vertus Financial Services, an apartment that was also the home of company owner Jean Robert Vertus.
        
        The executor of Novaly’s estate sued Vertus and his company, alleging Vertus was liable because he did not warn Novaly he suspected his apartment was being robbed as he asked for help.
        
        According to the decision, Vertus, who had a check-cashing business, was first alerted to something out of the ordinary when he escorted a client to the door. Instead of following the client out, Vertus went down a set of side stairs to seek help from a downstairs neighbor. When that neighbor didn’t answer the door, Vertus went down the street to a building where Novaly, a customer and a friend, lived, according to the decision.
        
        Vertus initially asked to use Novaly’s phone to call his office to determine whether anything had happened. While he was on the phone, Novaly and his roommate left the apartment to head to Vertus’ building.
        
        Vertus said in court papers he suspected his apartment was being robbed but he didn’t share his suspicions with Novaly or the roommate. He said he told them "something was going on."
        
        When he returned to the building, Vertus found Novaly lying on the ground with a gunshot wound. Novaly died 24 days later.
        
        "We hold that one who has reason to believe that an intruder on his premises poses a danger to others OWES A DUTY OF REASONABLE CARE to a friend whom he brings to the danger by a request for assistance," wrote appellate judge Jane Grall.
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        1. 3/18/2011 11:04 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           "Here Comes the Judge," PIGMEAT MARKHAM:
           
           
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpAX8MYS86Q&feature=related
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           1. 3/25/2011 9:02 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC scored a big hit and established a funk precedent with the launching of "One Nation Under A Groove."
              
              As successes go, there was bound to be copy-cats. Ray ("Ghost Busters") Parker Jr. made sure that he siphoned off the funk from Parliament-Funkadelic's "One Nation Under A Groove."
              
              Was it theft? Was it borrowing? Or was it clean and fair use under the United States copyright laws?
              
              "For Those Who Like To Groove," Ray ("Ghost Busters") Parker Jr.:
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hViYDn6Tw0
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              1. 3/25/2011 9:09 AM Scrivener7 wrote:
                 Often imitated, but NEVER duplicated...
                 
                 PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC, "One Nation Under A Groove" :
                 
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNoj-PZbcO8
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                 1. 5/16/2011 1:52 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    One great thing about growing old is that, eventually, you can spot the musical rip-offs.
                    
                    Case in point: Parliament-Funkadelic's George Clinton literally stole from Iron Maiden's Ozzy Osborne. What led me to this evidence was pure nostalgia. I wanted to hear Iron Maiden's epic tune, "Iron Man," and right in the middle of it I heard the opening riff from Parliament Funkadelic's "Standing on the Verge (of gettin' it on)."
                    
                    There is wisdom in old age!
                    
                    
                    Iron Man:
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjbMVXj0F8
                    
                    
                    Standing on the Verge:
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmJqDfdGmV4
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  2. 1/14/2011 11:49 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     God. This is the best:
     
     The Good, The Bad, And...The Ugly:
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXldafIl5DQ
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     1. 1/15/2011 2:03 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Eli Wallach is one of my favorite actors.
        
        I never knew for years that he was "The Ugly" in "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly"
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqjQG-Tw9FY&feature
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        1. 1/16/2011 1:14 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           Somehow I posted Marlon Brando's Apocalypse Now! quote about an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.
           
           Here's Eli Wallach:
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0nFsXZv1XQ
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           1. 1/17/2011 6:00 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Eli Wallach was Mr. Freeze on Batman:
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDJgXJH2MsY
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              1. 2/3/2011 7:06 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 Frank Gorshin, THE Riddler of Batman:
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spWyeuXK37E
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                 1. 2/4/2011 5:19 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    Batman
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spWyeuXK37E
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                    1. 2/4/2011 5:22 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       Intro to BATMAN
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jgE-lrfZ3k
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                       1. 3/20/2011 1:01 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          Owl Jolson, "I Wanna Sing-a" :
                          
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akAEIW3rmvQ
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     2. 1/27/2011 6:31 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Ennio Morricone, living genius, composed a great score in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. However, Morricone's score for the film, "Orca," remains the best film score ever made:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_icVqP1ADA
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        1. 1/30/2011 12:34 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           When Orca (Killer Whales) are around, it is not good to be a sea lion:
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWsN63PRCW8&feature=related
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           1. 2/20/2011 8:58 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              From the world of nature: Primates getting high. Wow. Just like humans.
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN46PjBbns0
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           2. 3/14/2011 11:40 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Now, if we can only get the orca to sign on to this petition to save the seals:
              
              https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4925
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  3. 1/19/2011 9:47 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     The best information on FYLSE California Baby Bar and Bar Exam bar graders:
     
     http://www.clsj1994.com/pdf-issues/May2008.pdf
     
     INTERVIEW WITH A BAR GRADER
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     1. 1/22/2011 8:53 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        2011 FYLSE California Baby Bar test-takers: You will win. All it takes is what my wrestling coach taught us: Keep your head. Before every match, our wrestling coach brought out "The Plaque." Ingraved on this plaque was a quote from Rudyard Kipling, the jingoistic racist imperialist pig who could write a fine-damn nice poem!
        
        'if' by rudyard kipling
        
        If you can keep your head when all about you
        Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
        If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
        But make allowance for their doubting too;
        If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
        Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
        Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
        And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
        
        If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
        If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
        
        http://www.businessballs.com/ifpoemrudyardkipling.htm
        
        The best cinematic depiction of a man cool under fire is Mr. Winston Wolf, played expertly by Harvey Keitel:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANPsHKpti48
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        1. 2/12/2011 10:32 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           Here's one interpretation of why some folk fail the FYLSE:
           
           http://blog.passlaw.com/pass_the_fylse/2010/10/ten-reasons-people-fail-the-fylse.html
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        2. 2/21/2011 3:40 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           PULP FICTION, Samuel L. Jackson's executioner's speech:
           
           "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
           
           Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness.
           
           For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
           
           And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you!"
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRVm_TAE24A
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     2. 1/25/2011 9:01 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Here is an interesting article entitled, "How to Pass the California First Year Law School Examination":
        
        http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1349608/how_to_pass_the_california_first_year.html?cat=17
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        1. 1/29/2011 7:21 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           The FYLSE is the hardest bar exam:
           
           http://www.lawschoolsecretstosuccess.com/Baby_Bar_Exam.html
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           1. 1/31/2011 7:17 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Guns n Roses, "Sweet Child O Mine":
              
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7OgIMMRc4
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           2. 2/4/2011 4:37 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Here is an interesting article on "Exam Strategies":
              
              http://www.law.villanova.edu/Current%20Students/Academic%20Success/Exam%20Strategies.aspx
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              1. 2/5/2011 6:58 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 Here is some VERY practical legal advice:
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
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                 1. 2/22/2011 12:38 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    For FYLSE California Baby Bar exam test-takers, here is an example of how to make your own flashcards:
                    
                    http://www.flashcardmachine.com/contract-rules.html
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     3. 2/3/2011 4:19 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Here's an interesting article on "How to Ace FYLSE":
        
        
        http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_to_Ace_FYLSE
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     4. 2/13/2011 4:32 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Another interesting take on the FYLSE California Baby Bar Exam:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1rJAKGy0mc
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        1. 2/17/2011 3:59 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           Past calbar exams for the California FYLSE Baby Bar exam:
           
           http://admissions.calbar.ca.gov/Examinations/PastExams.aspx
           
           Caveat emptor on "model answers":
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOygxygElp0&feature=related
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  4. 1/20/2011 6:49 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     2011 FYLSE California Baby Bar Exam test-takers take heart! FOCUS and you will win.
     
     Here's "Hotel California" by the Eagles:
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ygI3BZxdCY
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     1. 1/28/2011 7:46 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        "California Dreamin' ," by the Mamas and the Papas
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0UcQDUR-fU
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        1. 1/28/2011 8:01 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           "California Dreamin'," by Eddie Hazel
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er64v5sxDgA
           
           
           "Maggot Brain," by Parliament-Funkadelic, featuring Eddie Hazel
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh3bleXWaCk
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           1. 1/29/2011 3:48 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Going to California Tour,
              Tears For Fears, "Shout"
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrElT8XxptU
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              1. 2/4/2011 6:21 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 "Beast of Burden," Rolling Stones:
                 
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tRdBsnX4N4&feature=related
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                 1. 2/4/2011 9:15 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    Dire Straits, "Sultans of Swing":
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB3b1W6rEDw
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                    1. 2/15/2011 7:12 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       Mason Williams, "Classical Gas" :
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8dMFYCTCcI
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                       1. 5/16/2011 5:14 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          I remember the poem that went something like this: "I shot an arrow into the air/ It fell to earth, I know not where." At the end of the poem, the narrator revealed that he eventually found his arrow...in the heart of a friend.
                          
                          Here's a recent story about someone who made an ill-advised email post.
                          
                          --Scrivener5
                          
                          As one person in the story puts it:
                          
                          "Right now I think the only thing anyone has learned is not to put anything in e-mail (which, come to think of it, is probably a useful lesson for lawyers)."
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          http://abovethelaw.com/2010/04/hls-3ls-racist-email-goes-national/
                          
                          
                          Harvard Law School 3L’s Racist Email Goes National
                          By Kashmir Hill
                          
                          [Harvard Law School] Every time you put something into an email, please remember that someone you send it to may hit Forward. If your email makes the case for a biological reason for racial disparities in intelligence, someone might hit Forward and send it to Black Law Student Associations across the nation.
                          
                          That’s what happened to a Harvard 3L yesterday.
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/12239
                          
                          Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - THE ARROW AND THE SONG
                          
                          I shot an arrow into the air,
                          It fell to earth, I knew not where;
                          For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
                          Could not follow it in its flight.
                          
                          I breathed a song into the air,
                          It fell to earth, I knew not where;
                          For who has sight so keen and strong,
                          That it can follow the flight of song?
                          
                          Long, long afterward, in an oak
                          I found the arrow, still unbroke;
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  5. 2/1/2011 5:54 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     THINK LIKE A LAWYER.
     
     The way to win on the FYLSE California Baby Bar Exam is to think like a lawyer. Sounds simple enough. Need some theme music, though.
     
     "Perry Mason":
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCaCXXCM42Y
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     1. 2/3/2011 1:09 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Blazing Saddles, "Badges":
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFwprS_L6tg&feature=related
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        1. 2/25/2011 12:52 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           "One Nation Under a Groove," Parliament-Funkadelic:
           
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNoj-PZbcO8
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  6. 2/25/2011 1:01 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Here is a video of test-takers emerging from the California Bar Exam in Ontario, California and discussing their harrowing exam experiences:
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUPqN5QCGFc&feature=related
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• 11/15/2009 4:41 PM Sean wrote:
  I am a serious, dependable, and highly motivated person who is looking for an online study group for students taking or repeating the baby bar exam. Such a group must meet at least once a week, and consist of committed members.
  
  Please email me at sdgaynor@yahoo.com.
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• 11/28/2009 9:38 AM scrivener5 wrote:
  I would like to discuss the October 2009 FYLSE.
  
  Here are Questions 3 and 4:
  
  
  
  Essay Three: The Luxury Boat
  
  A luxury boat company sent an unsolicited mailing to a prospective customer for an all-expenses paid trip to a hotel next to where a luxury boat was being offered for sale. The customer came and looked at the boat. The salesman claimed that the boat was "state of the art" and at the best available price. He gave her a form to which he had written the name of the boat in the blank. He wrote her name on the form as well. In red italics above the customer signature line, there was a statement such that "This offer is made with the understanding that it is accepted only after the Luxury Boat company approves the sale."
  
  The customer took the unsigned form home. A week later, she searched the internet and found out that the boat was not the best price. She still decided to sign the form and she faxed it back to the company. Another week later, she did more research and found out that the boat was a discontinued model. She faxed a revocation. The same day she received in the mail the form she had signed. It was stamped "approved" by the company.
  
  The call of the question asked what were the Company's claims against her and on what theories.
  
  Question 4: The Loud and Violent Teen
  
  A minor had gotten into trouble for disruptive behavior in school. A psychologist hired by the school assessed the minor and determined that he had a 90% chance of committing violence on someone in the future. The parents ignored the warning and sent the minor to stay with his uncle.
  
  At the uncle's house, the minor loudly played his guitar. The noise disturbed a neighbor who was a therapist counseling patients in his home. The therapist complained to the uncle. The uncle told the minor to lower the volume. The uncle had to leave the house one day and told the minor to keep down the guitar's volume. When the uncle left the house one day, the minor cranked up the volume. The therapist came over and asked the minor to turn it down. The minor told him off.
  
  As the therapist was leaving the minor threw a large heavy rock at him. The rock missed the therapist but hit a woman walking by. The woman sustained serious and permanent injuries.
  
  The call of the question asked for: (1) The therapist's actions against minor, (2) The therapist's actions against the uncle, (3) The woman's actions against the minor, and (4) the woman's actions against the minor's parents.
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  1. 3/11/2011 6:47 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Like the Borg in Star Trek: Next Generation, English is a language that gloms onto and sucks up words from other languages. I just love the words deja vu and kismet.
     
     
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kismet
     
     Kismet may refer to:
     
     * Fate or Destiny in Turkish and Urdu, a predetermined course of events, from Persian qesmat, from Arabic qisma, lot, from qasama, to divide, allot. Also used in Bulgarian and in some dialects of Serbo-Croatian as luck.
     
     The first recorded use of the word in English was from Edward Backhouse Eastwick who used the word, spelled "kismat", in his 1849 novel, "Dry Leaves from Young Egypt".
     
     
     
     Anyway, that's just an intro into a real kismet moment for me that happened today.
     
     I'm listening to my daily National Public Radio (NPR), and there's an interview with a film maker named Tom McCarthy.
     
     Later on this month is the debut of Tom McCarthy's film "Win Win," starring Paul Giamatti.
     
     Giamatti plays a lawyer who is also a wrestling coach. "Rocky," the character written and acted by Sylvester Stallone, had a brother-in-law, played by Burt Young.
     
     In "Win Win," Burt Young plays the grandfather of Kyle, the star wrestler who comes to Giamatti's team.
     
     Kyle is played by Alex Schaefer, a real-life New Jersey wrestler who just won the New Jersey state championship at 119 pounds.
     
     
     
     Kismet.
     
     
     
     Here's the trailer for "Win Win":
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoT55BzL6Qg&feature=related
     
     
     Here's the NPR link:
     
     http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/03/11/134458616/win-win-director-tom-mccarthy-on-wrestling-with-moral-vagaries
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     1. 3/13/2011 8:00 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        I heard this on NPR today. It's a band called "Glass Ghost." I was waking from a nap when I heard it. It seemed weird and other-worldly.
        
        "Bright Circumstance" by Glass Ghost:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ktC89X_xBU
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        1. 4/28/2011 2:59 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           Amber Lamps, the living and breathing epitome of what Leonardo Da Vinci attempted to render on canvas, cares not for the squabbles and disputes inherent in human interactions:
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx3-ywSPos4&feature=related
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• 11/28/2009 1:49 PM plastic playing cards wrote:
  I would like to thank you for the efforts you have made in writing this article. I am hoping the same best work from you in the future as well. In fact your creative writing abilities has inspired me to start my own wordpress blog now. Really the blogging is spreading its wings rapidly. Your write up is a fine example of it
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     1. 9/24/2010 3:44 AM healthy cookware wrote:
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        1. 2/26/2011 6:41 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           There is a GET for ANYBODY. Or ANYTHING. The FYLSE can be GOT. Anybody can be got. Even Luca Brasi can be got:
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0JxEDZ_oWc
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           1. 6/7/2011 12:41 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              The GREAT Herbie Mann, "Push Push"
              
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6KBLBpOaJ8
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• 11/30/2009 1:13 PM London Escort Agency wrote:
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• 12/3/2009 1:58 PM my oes tsetnoc wrote:
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• 12/5/2009 4:36 PM Sean wrote:
  If you are looking for others with whom to study for the upcoming June 2010 Baby Bar Exam, you are definitely not alone. Please join our private study group on GoogleGroups: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?passive=true&hl=en&service=groups2&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroup%2Ffylse%2Fsubscribe%3Fnote%3D1&cd=US&ssip=g3
  
  This group page has a discussion forum, calendar, and a file hosting area from which you can upload or download resources. This group page is also a jumping off point of sorts for live weekly audio and text chats. The members directory and discussion area will facilitate the task of organizing the weekly chats.
  
  Most importantly, in this study group you will hopefully find individuals who will help you to push yourself, stay on track, and to acquire or hone the knowledge and skills necessary to pass the California Baby Bar Exam.
  
  Thank you for reading this invitation, and also thank you in advance for joining the study group.
  
  Sean
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• 12/5/2009 11:32 PM scrivener5 wrote:
  Hi Sean,
  Best of outcomes to you and th FYLSE study group. A great advantage that distance learning with today's technology is the ability to rapidly access and disseminate information.
  
  The only caveat I would caution you and others in your group is to beware of those who want to hitch a free ride without contributing anything substantial. That hazard must always be dealt with in study groups.
  
  I did not belong to a study group. That was not my intention (to go it alone). That was reality of choices I had to make.
  
  Results for the October 2009 FYLSE California Baby Bar exam are being mailed to us in five days.
  
  Pray for us!
  
  Your study group will be successful if your group members have as much initiative as you do, Sean.
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  1. 12/14/2009 1:13 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Thank You,
     Mr. Mystery Web Guy!
     
     I have PASSED! I am officially a FIRST TIMER.
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  2. 1/5/2011 9:59 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     This is a good song:
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIiLvg58SY
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     1. 4/28/2011 3:31 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        LEE MARVIN, the most macho man of the movies:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI1qBAVrjIs
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• 12/15/2009 3:09 PM Sherminator wrote:
  You guys are going to hate me, but I passed on the first time too!! But only by the skin of my teeth! I managed to get a score in the mid 80's on the MBE's but only a 60ish on the essays. My practice essays were much higher as were my exams!! So these guys just want to fail you, no joke!
  So all I can say is these bar graders tried to fail me. They did everything they could. So be prepared guys, because those essay graders are just brutal and not to mention cruel. Oh and practice those MBE's they may just save you, because the cruelty of the graders can't get you on the MBE's. (At least not as directly. )
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• 12/23/2009 3:26 PM Nelson wrote:
  You guys are ALL winners. The FYLSE is hard work. Let's keep it up, I would love to have people contribute to this site.
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  1. 12/25/2009 6:46 AM Sherminator wrote:
     I would love to help. I am just glad to be a 2L at last. Having to redo my 1L year because I transferred from an ABA school was bad enough. I was just glad I didn't have to go through your ordeal Nelson. Two years of Contracts was too much, that's for sure!
     Oh and as I said, if you need any help just let me know.
     Oh and on a related subject, I still think it would be a good idea to get the Cali Legislator to make ABA students take the Baby Bar too. If everyone had to take it, I am sure the ABA people would make the test passable and fair.
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     1. 12/25/2009 8:07 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Hi Sherminator,
        
        I'm with you on this project. It is important to give back...especially since we both benefited from the great advice from Mr. Mystery Web Guy.
        
        We can do this!
        
        --Scriv
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        1. 12/25/2009 9:21 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           This was a good one. How to write a "90" essay:
           
           http://www.thelawprofessoronline.com/ModelStudent.html
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           1. 1/23/2011 10:07 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Ram Jam, "Black Betty."
              
              When there's serious studying to be done.
              When it's time to take care of bid-ness:
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMLnDuzgkjo
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              1. 1/23/2011 10:16 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLnDuzgkjo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLnDuzgkjo
                 
                 CORRECTED LINK
                 
                 Ram Jam, "Black Betty"
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLnDuzgkjo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLnDuzgkjo
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                 1. 1/26/2011 5:39 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    AC DC,"Back in Black":
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h44LIiaZhHE
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                    1. 1/26/2011 11:26 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       Here's the score from the film, "The Magnificent Seven::
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA
                       
                       Here's the Clash with the punk rock hit, "The Magnificent Seven":
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMkpRtqJwbw
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                       1. 1/26/2011 11:39 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          Ian Dury and the Blockheads, "Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part Three,"
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoOjtNs9EOk
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                          1. 2/3/2011 2:18 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             The Ramones, "I Want to be Sedated":
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FxaJKm9sdI
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                             1. 2/3/2011 2:23 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                PRESENTLY WORKING LINK
                                
                                Ramones, "I Want to be Sedated":
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_wssByW7JQ&feature=related
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                       2. 1/27/2011 11:09 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          The Magnificent Seven is a great film. "The Wild Bunch" is even greater. Best line from the following trailer: "If they move...KILL 'EM!":
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIwH96iZI7E
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                          1. 2/10/2011 6:57 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             Finale of "The Wild Bunch," by Sam Peckinpah:
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUhUAa3y4rE&feature=related
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                       3. 2/16/2011 7:39 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          "Rock the Casbah," THE CLASH:
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ
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                    2. 1/28/2011 6:33 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       "Black Dog," Led Zeppelin
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2M6yV6mueg
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                       1. 1/28/2011 6:40 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          Black Sabbath, featuring Ozzy Osbourne, "Crazy Train'":
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gPlvH_j_Mo
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                          1. 1/28/2011 10:51 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             "Black Water," Doobie Brothers
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqZ95a249p0&feature=watch_response_rev
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                             1. 1/30/2011 9:29 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                "Green River," by Creedence Clearwater Revival:
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XcxFNONz64
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                                1. 1/30/2011 7:42 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   "Rock Lobster," by the B-52s
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1KZKZs-2YM&feature=related
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                                   1. 1/30/2011 7:46 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      Previous clip was Blues Brothers. This is the B52's, "Rock Lobster":
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDZy6-fMCw4
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                                      1. 1/31/2011 7:46 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                         Key Influences of the B-52s? Well, I thought that everyone had heard:
                                         
                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow
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                                   2. 2/21/2011 4:23 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      B-52s, "Dirty Back Road" :
                                      
                                      AWESOME Baby Bar exam study music:
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zjhYimnR6o
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                                2. 2/1/2011 6:13 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"
                                   Creedence Clearwater Revival
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS9_ipu9GKw
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                                   1. 2/4/2011 5:44 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      Creedence Clearwater Revival
                                      
                                      "[Doo-doo-dooo] Lookin' out My Back Door":
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spWyeuXK37E
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                                      1. 2/4/2011 5:47 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                         CORRECTED LINK:
                                         
                                         CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL,
                                         
                                         "Lookin' Out My Back Door"
                                         
                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqZhM75aGMg
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                                         1. 2/12/2011 7:40 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                            "The Old Man is Down the Road," John Fogerty:
                                            
                                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtTNK5HZ84A
                                            
                                            Supreme Court of the United States:
                                            
                                            Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc. (92-1750), 510 U.S. 517 (1994)
                                            
                                            http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-1750.ZO.html
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                             2. 2/4/2011 3:03 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                Doobie Brothers LIVE,
                                
                                "What a Fool Believes?"
                                
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZ5DfCY6kY
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                                1. 2/8/2011 5:39 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   Eric Clapton, "Tears in Heaven":
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AscPOozwYA8
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                    3. 2/3/2011 6:01 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       AC/DC BACK IN BLACK
                       
                       
                       Back in black
                       I hit the sack
                       I've been too long I'm glad to be back
                       Yes I'm, let loose
                       From the noose
                       That's kept me hanging about
                       I keep looking at the sky
                       'Cause it's gettin' me high
                       Forget the hearse 'cause I'll never die
                       I got nine lives
                       Cat's eyes
                       Usin' every one of them and running wild
                       
                       'Cause I'm back
                       Yes, I'm back
                       Well, I'm back
                       Yes, I'm back
                       Well, I'm back, back
                       (Well) I'm back in black
                       Yes, I'm back in black
                       
                       Back in the back
                       Of a Cadillac
                       Number one with a bullet, I'm a power pack
                       Yes, I'm in a bang
                       With a gang
                       They've got to catch me if they want me to hang
                       Cause I'm back on the track
                       And I'm leadin' the pack
                       Nobody's gonna get me on another rap
                       So look at me now
                       I'm just makin' my play
                       Don't try to push your luck, just get out of my way
                       
                       [ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/back-in-black-lyrics-acdc.html ]
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                       1. 2/8/2011 3:52 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          One of the GREATEST guitarists ever, Roy Clark, "Alabama Jubilee" :
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k59g3pX-C_s
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                          1. 2/12/2011 4:19 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             Roy Clark, "Yesterday," a rendition of "Yesterday" loved by the GREAT baseball player, Mickey Mantle:
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEY4LxORCeo&feature=related
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                    4. 2/10/2011 5:41 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       To all you test-takers of the June 2011 FYLSE California Baby Bar Exam...when you stride into that auditorium filled with 600-1000 other test-takers...and when you take your seat to deal with the mother of ALL exams...then you best be TNT!
                       
                       AC/DC, "TNT" :
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bPQAWZFZlM&feature=related
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                       1. 2/24/2011 4:04 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          FYLSE California Baby Bar exam test-takers. It's like this. You are a hit-man or a hit-woman. Your mission is to take out the FYLSE exam. You must KILL the FYLSE exam. With EXTREME prejudice. Your study and preparation are your lethal weapons. You will accomplish your mission. Or else.
                          
                          "Theme from The Godfather" :
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvKXt3Surlk
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                          1. 3/13/2011 10:53 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
                             
                             The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
                             
                             whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again,
                             
                             because there is no effort without error or shortcoming,
                             
                             but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
                             
                             who spends himself for a worthy cause;
                             
                             who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement,
                             
                             and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly,
                             
                             so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
                             
                             --Theodore Roosevelt
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• 12/23/2009 4:53 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
  Hi Nelson,
  
  So, are you Mr. Mystery Web Guy?
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  1. 5/7/2011 5:54 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     I remember a professional football player once said that all a diamond is, is a lump of coal...that did well under pressure!
     
     Here are a couple of articles AND a video you might find interesting and inspiring.
     
     --Scrivener5
     
     
     
     http://www.drbalternatives.com/articles/gc8.html
     
     Resilience - The Ability to Bounce Back
     
     “And thus, like the wounded oyster, he mends his shell with pearl.”
     
     - Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
     All of us experience major disruptions at certain points in our lives and think that sometimes we've been pushed to the edge and almost about to blow. In fact, this is an expected and predictable hallmark of the human condition. For some, these hard times come frequently - the impact of the trauma is overwhelming and recovery, if it comes at all, can be painfully slow. Others show resilience and are able to glide through these times fairly easily, bouncing back to a normal life again quickly.
     
     Resilience - the strength required to adapt to change - lies at the heart of mental and emotional health.
     
     
     
     http://www.resiliencescale.com/papers/pdfs/Discovering_Your_Resilience_Core.pdf
     
     
     Discovering Your Resilience Core
     
     By Gail M. Wagnild, PhD, RN, LAC
     
     Most of us are ordinary people. However, every one of us has extraordinary possibilities and strengths. Everyone stumbles and falls from time to time, but each of us has the capability to get back up and carry on. We call this ability to get up and get going resilience.
     
     Once we understand how to respond to challenges in life with resilience, downturns are not so overwhelming, defeating, or destructive. Resilient people respond to life’s challenges with courage and emotional stamina, even when they are afraid. Downturns become challenges to face head-on and overcome. Even though we have no control over many events in our life—accidents, natural disasters, crime, illness, the economy, etc.—we can control how we respond to these events, and we can choose to do so with resilience.
     
     
     Here's a video:
     
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it2EDnPRrcI
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• 12/26/2009 12:40 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
  'Tis the Season!
  
  Here's a womderful Christmas song for the hard-studying June 2010 FYLSE California Baby Bar exam test-takers:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPaGQEskSKM&feature=fvw
  
  
  
  
  
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Shropshire
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  1. 12/27/2009 3:05 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Again, in keeping with the Spirt of Christmas, here is Ms. Shirley Temple! (Well...not really...but the video is footage of her).
     
     Merry Christmas June 2010 FYLSE California Baby Bar exam test-takers!
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feEz-1occWo&feature=related
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  2. 1/5/2011 5:46 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Gerry Rafferty died last night. "Stuck in the Middle with You" is one of his hits. That song was featured in Quentin Tarrantino's "Reservoir Dogs" during the famous ear-slicing scene.
     RIP Gerry.
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMAIsqvTh7g
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     1. 2/10/2011 6:55 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        "The Wild Bunch," finale by Sam Peckinpah:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUhUAa3y4rE&feature=related
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        1. 2/11/2011 7:09 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           War is hell. Scenes from "The Thin Red Line":
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCaSNwvE7AY&feature=related
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           1. 2/12/2011 7:29 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              "War Pigs," Black Sabbath:
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbxfe7DMxVo
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              1. 2/13/2011 7:32 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 Winner of the First Academy Award for Best Picture, "Wings":
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyZuJlohI84
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                 1. 2/13/2011 8:45 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    "A Hanging at Owl Creek Bridge," a short film based on the film "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge":
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhsFvMKsaMs&feature=related
                    
                    
                    Bobbie Gentry, "Ode to Billie Joe" :
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc
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                    1. 2/27/2011 9:51 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       "Tide is High," Blondie, featuring Deborah Harry:
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qICO_I8ehI
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                       1. 3/9/2011 2:55 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          "Use Ta Be My Girl," The O'Jays
                          
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lb1jYRDnlE
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     2. 6/10/2011 2:43 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Quentin Tarrantino's famous "Reservoir Dogs" ear-slicing scene:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=komvFIGYBYM&feature=related
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• 1/15/2010 8:39 AM scrivener5 wrote:
  Here is an adorable little girl performing the Christmas song (supra):
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcOXvT9aDI4&feature=related
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  1. 1/13/2011 6:30 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Every brand new bicylce deserves a "Brand New Key"
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFknADVvNM
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  2. 1/13/2011 6:34 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     CORRECTED LINK:
     
     Every brand new bicylce deserves a "Brand New Key"
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFknAdVvNM
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     1. 1/23/2011 3:24 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        For whatever reason, some people just cannot feel other folk's pain...or joy. These poor souls have no empathy. Some of them are socio-paths.
        
        When Melanie Safka is singing "Brand New Key" and when the audience starts clapping and she starts feeling chills...I feel it, too!
        
        Here's Clint Holmes, "Playground in My Mind":
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJChZpQDjgM&feature=related
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        1. 2/7/2011 3:00 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           Hall and Oates, "Sarah Smile" :
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Red3R17FlUQ
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           1. 2/23/2011 2:06 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              "Beddie Bye," Steve Arrington:
              
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k97IxRrz9CA
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• 1/23/2010 7:25 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
  Best of outcomes to all studying for the June 2010 FYLSE California Baby Bar exam. It is do-able! You are certainly on the right webpage. Mr. Mystery Web Guy's advice certainly helped me!
  
  Anyway, here's a Shirley Temple clip:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNwFXLcrsbc&feature=related
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• 3/31/2010 1:32 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
  June 2010 FYLSE California Baby Bar exam takers are getting prepared...and well you should! Remember to eat well, and sleep well, and exercise well...and relax. Watch some baseball:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw3aWUWXX6g
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  1. 1/23/2011 7:59 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     "Self-Service," by Bruno Bozzetto, is a short film which is AWESOME.
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqg16z8ehp0
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• 4/2/2010 12:13 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
  I really don't like rap music.
  
  But, here is LL Cool J for those who do:
  
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVDfyc2lh4Q
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  1. 1/17/2011 4:50 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Olu Dara is a great trumpeter. I remember back in the day he was telling me about his son who was an up and coming rapper. His son is NAS, a super star rapper today. Anyways, my favorite rapper is Dr. Evil. Here's "Hard Knock Life" from the Austin Powers movie:
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh_ex3VGHIM
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     1. 3/11/2011 8:42 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        That little digression about the look I gave to my son when he asked me about why I never taught high school reminded me about this fictional tale I heard:
        
        Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Corporation, was bored. He had accomplished most of his professional goals and he had made a lot of money.
        
        He wanted more of what life had to offer. Someone told him of the wisest man in the world who lived high up in the mountains in Tibet.
        
        Bill Gates jumped at the opportunity. He took his private jet to Asia. Then he took a train. Then he took a bus. Then he took a donkey all the way up the mountain where the guru lived.
        
        Finally, Bill Gates arrived at the guru's place. The guru was sitting with his legs crossed and staring out into the distance.
        
        "Hi there!" said Bill Gates. "I'm Bill Gates. You've probably heard of me. I'm one of the richest men in the world!"
        
        The guru ignored him and continued looking out into the distance.
        
        "I've come here to learn wisdom from you," said Bill Gates.
        
        The guru ignored him.
        
        "I really admire you. I want to learn all that you have to teach me."
        
        The guru ignored him.
        
        Bill Gates stayed there for three days and three nights. Bill Gates pitched a tent, cooked his meals, and slept up on that mountain.
        
        The guru remained motionless.
        
        Finally, Bill Gates could not stand it any longer.
        
        "Listen, Mr. Guru. I've been up here for three days and three nights. I just want to learn from you. And you just ignore me! That just is not fair!"
        
        Finally, the guru looked at Bill Gates.
        
        "Get that bucket over there," said the guru.
        
        Bill Gates was so happy that the guru was finally speaking to him. Bill Gates ran and got the bucket.
        
        "Go over there and fill up that bucket with water.
        
        Bill Gates filled up the bucket and brought it back to the guru.
        
        The guru held out a wooden cup and commanded:
        
        "Fill up this cup!"
        
        Bill Gates carefully filled up the cup.
        
        "More!" commanded the guru.
        
        Bill Gates filled the cup up to the top.
        
        "More!" commanded the guru.
        
        Bill Gates filled the cup until the meniscus appeared on the surface of the water in the cup.
        
        "More!" commanded the guru.
        
        Bill Gates began to cry.
        
        "Why are you crying?" asked the guru.
        
        "Because I can't put any more into the cup," answered Bill Gates.
        
        The guru flung the cup out of his hand and looked Bill Gates square in the eye.
        
        "And that," explained the guru, "is why I CANNOT teach you. Your cup is full. I cannot pour any wisdom into it."
        
        
        Unfortunately, many high school kids have cups that are full. Full of dog droppings.
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• 4/2/2010 10:22 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
  Hi June 2010 FYLSE California Baby Bar Test-Takers!
  
  I just want to emphasize that you are in the right place. This site, with the sagacious wisdom of Mr. Mystery Web Guy (whom I don't know...but whom I owe LOTSA beers!)...I was able to clear the hurdle of the October 2009 FYLSE on my first attempt.
  
  Sweet. I won't lie. It was/is simply sweet.
  
  Anyway, if you wonder why I post music and videos...it is because your MENTAL ATTITUDE is EVERYTHING.
  
  Trust me.
  
  Here is a good movie to watch:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI4_58YmzBA
  
  Here is another good movie to watch:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8DlBN_LLiA
  
  Remember that everybody taking this exam is smart.
  
  What is your competitive advantage?
  
  That's right:
  
  PMA
  
  
  Positive Mental Attitude.
  
  In case you don't know what that means...
  
  ...check this out:
  
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1GKGWJbE8
  
  
  --Scrivener5
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  1. 1/7/2011 5:04 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     There is a frequency of sound that breaks glass. This song by Iz breaks a piece of the soul:
     "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I
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  2. 1/22/2011 6:11 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Theme from "Rocky."
     
     This inspiring tune went with me on that jet-plane trip to California and back to the East Coast. The California FYLSE Baby Bar was the Championship Boxing Ring. Study and preparation were my Star-Spangled boxing trunks:
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioE_O7Lm0I4&feature=related
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     1. 2/4/2011 8:39 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Mr. T weighs in on the difficulty of the 2011 FYLSE California Baby Bar Exam:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1TxiVhrkZA
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        1. 2/5/2011 11:26 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           For those preparing NOW for the June 2011 FYLSE California Baby Bar exam, best of outcomes! Take this VERY seriously. You do NOT want to be on the receiving end of the grease pencil of a sadistic bar grader. You do not want to be scurrying for cover as the door gunner sprays you with lead and screams, "GET SOME," as in "Full Metal Jacket":
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06nIz4scvI
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           1. 2/6/2011 6:17 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              For those about to take the 2011 FYLSE: the upcoming June 2011 California Baby Bar Exam is a SERIOUS challenge. Without proper preparation, you will be ABUSED. Do not be treated like "Precious" in the Academy Award winning film for Best Actress. Go into this test armed.
              
              Without preparation, you will be abused like Precious:
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZnOao1QP_k
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              1. 2/8/2011 6:09 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 Remember that black-letter rules of law ain't really gonna help you if you don't ANALYZE. Don't be trapped at the bottom of a basement pit looking up at a serial killer holding his pet poodle.
                 
                 Greenskeepers, "It Rubs the Lotion On Its Skin (Or Else It Gets the Hose Again)":
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDgS6qLsVM4
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                 1. 2/8/2011 6:31 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    Seriously. Study and preparation will allow you to win.
                    
                    Short of that, you will be the victim of "top-secret clown business" from the likes of one, Captain Spaulding:
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4XmI0eBiMQ
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                    1. 2/11/2011 7:19 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       Prepare for the California FYLSE Baby Bsr exam as if you are up against the greatest foe of your life. Don't be a statistic. Don't be the hapless victim in Reno that some bar grader shoots down just to watch him die:
                       
                       Johnny Cash, "Folsom Prison Blues"
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Ts4M3irWM
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                       1. 3/2/2011 9:06 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          Be VERY afraid of the FYLSE California Baby Bar exam. It is a challenge that requires your respect, fear, and ALERT attention.
                          
                          Don't be like Sigourney Weaver nonchalantly ambling along, or else a serial killer like Harry Connick, Jr., will hoist you up by your neck, as in "Copy Cat" :
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mhj99clO5M&feature=related
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                          1. 4/27/2011 4:19 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             The California June 2011 FYLX Baby Bar Exam is The Fly. Don't be swallowed up after having acid vomit sprayed over you!
                             
                             Be prepared! Study! PRACTICE!
                             
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MDFan__QXg&feature=related
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                             1. 5/7/2011 6:26 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                Today is May 7th. The June 2011 FYLSE California Baby Bar exam is fast approaching.
                                
                                Do NOT take this ordeal lightly.
                                
                                Don't be like clueless teenagers in a bad horror flick:
                                
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT2qFx9iSlM
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        2. 2/10/2011 8:10 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           "You never got me down, Ray," Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta in "Raging Bull":
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wwItkoapuA&feature=related
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• 4/2/2010 10:47 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
  Oh--
  
  --I almost forgot--
  
  It's safe to dance!
  
  Best of outcomes on the June Baby Bar Exam!
  
  
  "Safety Dance," Men Without Hats:
  
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg
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  1. 5/3/2010 8:49 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     One thing about youtube is that the links constantly change:
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs
     
     
     Here is the (presently working) link to Men Without Hats, "Safety Dance"
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     1. 1/22/2011 2:34 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Blind Melon, "No Rain"
        
        No matter what, never give up hope.
        
        There are folk just as "off" as you:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL6tB_0ZJtw
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        1. 1/22/2011 7:18 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           Joe Walsh, "Life's Been Good To Me So Far"
           
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXWvKDSwvls
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           1. 1/24/2011 4:46 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Happy Music and good times:
              
              
              "Let the Good Times Roll," by The Cars
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QeJDiDvTEE&feature=related
              
              "I Feel Good," by the Godfather of Soul, James Brown
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgDrJ5Z2rKw
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              1. 2/21/2011 6:54 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 JAMES BROWN dance lesson shown by James Brown:
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdz88MBWomo
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                 1. 2/22/2011 10:54 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    Terence Trent D'Arby
                    
                    "Sign Your Name":
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmi_qbUGCKo
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• 4/3/2010 7:53 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
  Hi 2010 FYLSE California Baby Bar test-takers!
  
  
  Tomorrow is Easter.
  
  I'm more of an Easter person than a Christmas person. I guess that is because Easter is all about fresh beginnings, redemption, sacrifice, love, and...
  
  ...SALVATION!
  
  Yep. I'm that Easter kind of person.
  
  Anyway...
  
  ...here's a clip from a movie that shows what happens when your house gets haunted by a prankish ghost:
  
  
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPuRCetlHvc
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  1. 5/11/2011 5:04 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     This song is so PERFECT that I feel not worthy to post it. But, I will.
     
     "Pusherman," CURTIS MAYFIELD:
     
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv7AbxqxXag&feature=related
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• 4/5/2010 7:02 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
  For all the candidates taking the June 2010 FYLSE California Baby Bar Exam, just remember that YOU CAN DO IT!
  
  As Glen Campbell, "Rhinestone Cowboy," would say, Nice Guys and Gals don't always "get washed away like the snow and the rain."
  
  Keep hustlin' and studyin' and thinkin' positively!
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p8wDhK5LyY
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  1. 1/23/2011 8:01 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Today, the NY Jets play for a shot at the Super Bowl.
     
     New York is a sports power-house. Just ask the folk in San Francisco. In 2010, they won a World Series Championship...thanks to a cast-off New York team called the Giants.
     
     1969 was a magical sports year for New York. The Jets, the Mets, and the Knickerbockers all won championships. Actually, I'm a Jets-Mets-Nets fan--only because the New York Knicks brought in "Mr. Softee," Patrick Ewing (over-rated soft touch big man).
     
     The Knickerbockers were led by Captain Willis Reed. A future U.S. Senator, and Princeton grad (and Rhodes scholar) "Dollar" Bill Bradley was on the squad. Walt "Clyde" Frazier was a sure-shot. Earl "The Pearl" Monroe came later. And, of course, a New York Knickerbocker would later become a messiah for California--Phil Jackson, a gangly, spindly-armed flopper, who would later lead the Los Angeles Lakers to victory after guiding Michael Jordan and his Chicago Bulls.
     
     Today we honor the J-E-T-S...Jets! Jets! Jets!
     
     They'll probably lose. We're used to it. Just like Boston was used to its perennial losers ever since they traded George Herman "Babe" Ruth to the New York Yankees. By the way, like all TRUE Mets fans, I HATE the NY Yankees!
     
     Go Jets!
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     1. 1/24/2011 6:35 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        The Meat Packers versus the The Steel Makers; Green Bay Packers vs. Pittsburg Steelers.
        
        The labor unions must be happy at the line-up for the Super Bowl.
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• 4/5/2010 7:09 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
  This is THE motivational message I listened to REPEATEDLY throughout my 2009 FYLSE California Baby Bar preparation process.
  
  I really can't say enough about this video...it WORKED for me!
  
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHNWtRPSq5Q
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  1. 1/19/2011 9:04 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     The FYLSE California Baby Bar Exam is challenging. Not as challenging as BMT, though!
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Nf1MK7lts&feature=related
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     1. 1/19/2011 9:27 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Believe it or not, there are some fools who insist on picking fights with military folk like Vietnam Tom:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAfOSs3HY5A&feature=related
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        1. 1/22/2011 5:35 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           Military veterans = WIN
           Arrogant cocky blow-hards = LOSE
           
           Vietnam Tom takes care of bid-ness:
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln2-MgjKom8&feature=related
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           1. 1/22/2011 6:47 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Vietnam Tom thumbs-up to James Brown, "Papa Don't Take No Mess!"
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH62yywcECw
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              1. 1/22/2011 7:03 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 UPDATE: Vietnam Tom's Courtroom Appearance:
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg-YNvDY0tU&feature=related
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                 1. 1/24/2011 9:11 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    Vietnam Tom gives his interview after the Epic Beat-Down of an arrogant cocky blow-hard. It is so inspirational to see a 67-year-old military veteran expertly deliver a well-deserved lesson to an unworthy low-life:
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf8ZDs-D8Ys
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              2. 1/24/2011 9:00 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 So, you failed the FYLSE. Stuff happens. No sweat, though. As the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, says--Is Is Time to Get "Payback!"
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsOmvSlPuys
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                 1. 1/24/2011 9:34 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    James Brown paid the ultimate tribute when he "borrowed" (i.e. stole) David Bowie's riff.
                    
                    David Bowie, "Fame":
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-_30HA7rec
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                    1. 1/24/2011 9:41 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       Here is James Brown's tribute to David Bowie's "Fame":
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKb-N2XYNQ0&feature=related
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                       1. 1/27/2011 11:20 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          Doug from the film "Ghost World" just has to be a distant relative of Vietnam Tom:
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB055Obmdno&feature=related
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                          1. 1/28/2011 12:09 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             Elvis Presley, "The King," is THE most important figure in music. For good reason, too.
                             
                             Here is a clip from the movie, "Elvis Meets Nixon":
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ3Tu-VSOPI
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                             1. 1/28/2011 5:26 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                I LOVE Elvis impersonators. I'm not the only one. Americans LOVE Elvis impersonators. They elected Bill Clinton, right? New Yorkers LOVE Elvis impersonators. They made Derek Jeter their captain, right?
                                
                                Here's THE KING with "Suspicious Minds":
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBmAPYkPeYU
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                                1. 2/3/2011 1:38 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   Elvis Presley, "The KING," with "Crying in the Chapel":
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00eUebsh68M
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                                   1. 2/24/2011 3:33 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      "Oh, Happy Day," THE KING, Elvis Aaron Presley:
                                      
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaD6sdp0VCQ&feature=fvst
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                                      1. 2/24/2011 3:36 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                         D-Day. Decision Day. The day when THAT letter arrives. The day the letter arrives informing you of what side of the fence you stand on. Do you stand with the sheep? Or, do you stand with the goats? The Bar Examiners Decision Letter:
                                         
                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmiWhYKWCNc&feature=related
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                                2. 2/19/2011 6:30 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   As in Proverbs in the KJV Bible, there is a season for everything under sun, and kings come and kings go. There is only one KING and his name is Elvis Aaron Presley.
                                   
                                   That said, here is Run-DMC, "The King of Rock" :
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXzWlPL_TKw
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                    2. 2/9/2011 1:34 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       "Rebel Rebel," DAVID BOWIE:
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOn6oVKG95k&feature=fvw
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                       1. 2/9/2011 1:42 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          Iggy Pop, "Lust for Life" :
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvUBf5l7Vw
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                 2. 1/29/2011 4:29 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    John Lee Hooker, "Bad Like Jesse James":
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt9lwZyhmIo
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                 3. 1/29/2011 8:48 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    When one absolutely, positively must needs have the funk forthwith, The Meters supply "The Cissy Strut":
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_iC0MyIykM&feature=related
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                    1. 2/7/2011 9:36 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       "Jungle Fever," The Chakachas
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGQ3GzAGDzE&feature=related
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                       1. 2/12/2011 3:18 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          Quentin Tarantino's PULP FICTION, Kool and the Gang, "Jungle Boogie":
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgynbFoA9to
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                          1. 2/16/2011 12:52 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             Martin Lawrence as "Sha-nay-nay" :
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0uFcf7Cft4
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                             1. 2/19/2011 12:13 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                The Purple-clad beauty undisturbed by the expert beat down delivered by Vietnam Tom AKA Epic Beard Man:
                                
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAfOSs3HY5A&feature=related
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                                1. 2/19/2011 12:17 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   CORRECTED LINK:
                                   
                                   Amberlamps:
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeV3Te8xTlE&feature=related
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                                   1. 2/21/2011 7:05 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      USMC cadences. OOOOO-RAH! Blood and Guts!
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ5Az8pHeZs&feature=related
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                                   2. 2/28/2011 3:26 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      Here's a very clever parody of Vietnam Tom and the arrogant blow-hard who got his comeuppance on an Oakland, California bus:
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HtNG0IFBdY&feature=related
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                                   3. 3/2/2011 2:54 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      When you positively, absolutely must needs...AMBER LAMPS!:
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HtNG0IFBdY&feature=related
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                          2. 2/21/2011 3:35 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
                             
                             Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
                             
                             And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you!!! " --PULP FICTION executioner's speech
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                    2. 2/24/2011 3:09 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       Lipps Inc., "Funky Town" :
                       
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlmTELeLRwI
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     2. 1/25/2011 7:24 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        General George Armstrong Custer went to his death to this march. No worries. The 7th Cavalry still rides!
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaaBN4Mm0Ok&feature=related
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        1. 1/25/2011 7:27 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           My Grand-Daddy served under General Patton. Winning was the ONLY option.
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imrN_IUB8no&feature=related
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           1. 1/26/2011 2:40 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              One of the most inspiring and rousing marches suitible for kicking some hind-parts is "The March of the Wooden Soldiers," starring Laurel and Hardy:
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDdhg8CyeUo
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           2. 1/31/2011 10:48 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Theme from Patton:
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu11QRO9BrQ
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              1. 2/5/2011 8:32 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 "Patton," movie trailer:
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI4_58YmzBA
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        2. 2/9/2011 5:11 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           "Americans LOVE a winner. And will NOT tolerate a loser!"--George C. Scott as General Patton.
           
           General George Armstrong Custer and General Patton are two of America's heroes. They died with their boots on. They never surrendered. They never took ANY mess.
           
           They are our representations of "Achilles." Here is Brad Pitt acting as The Best of the Achaeans:
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qibrAX4URTc&feature=related
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     3. 2/8/2011 5:03 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        "Glory," movie trailer, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, and Morgan Freeman:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuUGD7aa3E&feature=related
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     4. 2/14/2011 8:22 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        "Full Metal Jacket," Animal Mother:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hBSGEzpw-8&feature=related
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        1. 2/16/2011 1:39 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y1YL9C8Hfw
           
           
           "B-17 veteran back in air aboard a WWII-era bomber"
           
           By MITCH STACY, Associated Press Mitch Stacy, Associated Press – Tue Feb 15, 3:48 pm ET
           
           CLEARWATER, Fla. – "A day before his final mission aboard a B-17 bomber in World War II, Norbert Swierz sat down on his bunk and jotted down a poem for his mother back in Michigan.
           
           "I go so gladly to my fate, whatever it may be. That I would have you shed no tears for me," wrote the 23-year-old gunner, who had already survived the ditching of his first B-17 in the North Sea that summer of 1943. "Some men must die, that others must be free. And only God can say whom these shall be."
           
           The next day, Sept. 6, 1943, "Skeets" Swierz and the rest of the crew of the B-17 nicknamed "Bomb Boogie" took off from their base in England, but didn't make it back. Shot down and taken prisoner, Swierz would spend the rest of his war days in a POW camp and not fly in another B-17 for close to 70 years.
           
           The opportunity came again last Friday, and Swierz didn't hesitate. He strapped himself into a restored Flying Fortress and held on as the four droning engines lifted the vintage bomber off a central Florida airstrip into heavy cloud cover.
           
           "Wonderful," the grinning 90-year-old man kept saying during the 45-minute flight. "Wonderful."
           
           Strapped into the radio operator's chair halfway back, Swierz looked around and reeled off the name of the man on his crew who occupied the same seat on his old plane, and the name of the gunner who had squeezed into the ball turret underneath. That's what he was thinking about most, the other guys.
           
           "They're all gone now, but I still have the memories," he said. "They were all kids then, just like myself."
           
           Swierz's flight came courtesy of the Collings Foundation, which tours the country with several planes restored to their World War II condition. More than 12,000 B-17s were manufactured for the war effort, and the Massachusetts-based charity owns one of a handful around the world that can still get off the ground. Foundation spokesman Hunter Chaney said it's important to put the old veterans together with the vintage aircraft while that's still possible."
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           1. 2/18/2011 9:42 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              The "crack-down" in Bahrain is really nothing new. Proverbs in the KJV Bible says that there is nothing new under the sun. George Santayana said that those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
              
              During the French Revolution, a group of revolutionaries threatened the new Republic and a young officer named Napoleon was asked to deal with the issue:
              
              
              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_I">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_I
              
              On 3 October, royalists in Paris declared a rebellion against the National Convention after they were excluded from a new government, the Directory.[31] One of the leaders of the Thermidorian Reaction, Paul Barras, knew of Bonaparte's military exploits at Toulon and gave him command of the improvised forces in defence of the Convention in the Tuileries Palace. Bonaparte had witnessed the massacre of the King's Swiss Guard there three years earlier and realised artillery would be the key to its defence.[7] He ordered a young cavalry officer, Joachim Murat, to seize large cannons and used them to repel the attackers on 5 October 1795—13 Vendémiaire An IV in the French Republican Calendar. One thousand four hundred royalists died, and the rest fled.[31] He had cleared the streets with "a whiff of grapeshot", according to the 19th century historian Thomas Carlyle in The French Revolution: A History.[32]
              
              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_I">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_I
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• 4/5/2010 11:00 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
  For those taking the 2010 FYLSE California Baby Bar Exam, here is another great PMA (Postive Mental Attitude] lecture by Zig Ziglar:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRMogDrHnMQ
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  1. 1/10/2011 7:09 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     The mass murder in Tucson, AZ was horrific and the death of a nine-year-old girl, Christina Taylor Green compounds the tragedy.
     
     http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/09/AR2011010902186.html
     
     The legal team representing the murderer will no doubt use the insanity defense.
     
     The murderer was inspired by Drowning Pool's "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor":
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO_QntXc-c4
     
     
     There was a 1987 movie, "The Hidden," in which an evil alien possessed people to commit murderous acts:
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad52RbO-BEc&feature=related
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     1. 1/13/2011 4:07 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        The Tucson Mass-Murderer will need serious counseling in prison. There is a gentleman who would like to have a heart-to-heart chat with the Mass-Murderer and help him to search his soul:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fuDDqU6n4o&feature=related
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        1. 1/14/2011 3:47 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           There are some lads in the Federal Penitentiary who want to open the mind of the Tucson Mass-murderer:
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwQbPgouUYo
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           1. 1/14/2011 8:13 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Psychologists and analysts may want to explore the inner workings of the criminal mind. The Tucson Mass-murderer may be a case-study for them. However, the character played by Samuel L. Jackson may be more effective and helpful at getting at the root cause of his issues:
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPHuE5pDlEs&feature=related
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  2. 2/1/2011 6:38 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     "Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word," Elton John:
     
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2e4NlnLr28
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     1. 2/4/2011 6:29 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Elton John, "Daniel":
        
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA78e27R_J4
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        1. 2/6/2011 6:35 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           "Buying a Book," Joe Tex
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU8JCzOKxKM&feature=related
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           1. 2/7/2011 4:02 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Otis Clay, "I Can Take You to Heaven Tonight" :
              
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlGk3Ea3x84
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              1. 2/7/2011 4:09 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 Otis Clay, "Trying to Live My Life Without You":
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTP322AhAdI&feature=related
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                 1. 2/7/2011 4:10 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    "Love and Happiness," Al Green
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfWPDGWP568
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                    1. 2/16/2011 1:58 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       Quincy Jones, Ashford & Simpson, and Chaka Khan, "Stuff Like That" :
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc4ZDceGGDU
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                       1. 2/18/2011 5:18 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          "I'll Take You There," The Staples Singers:
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXvKRZRofDE
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                          1. 2/18/2011 5:21 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," Cannonball Adderly
                             
                             This song can bring tears to me anytime. I remember the struggles of my family and how we have overcome whatever obstacles that were thrown in our way. Ain't nothin' to it but to do it!
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRrFWp4DUho
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• 4/5/2010 11:05 AM free porn wrote:
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• 4/5/2010 1:57 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
  Okay.
  
  Hi 2010 FYLSE California Baby Bar Test-Takers!
  
  
  Here's a song that will always make me cry because it reminds me of both my Daddy and my Grand-Daddy.
  
  Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors" and Clarence Carter's "Patches" makes me cry, too.
  
  But, my Grand-Daddy was a sharecropper from Georgia. Life was hard for him and his wife and his 15 kids.
  
  Just because he didn't have book-learnin' didn't mean that he wasn't smart. He was VERY smart.
  
  My life is a continuation of my Grand-Daddy's struggle.
  
  Anyways, here's the GREAT Kenny Rogers, with "The Gambler"
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn481KcjvMo
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  1. 4/27/2010 10:23 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     The countdown continues for the June 2010 FYLSE California Baby Bar Exam test-takers. Here is a motivational song by the great Allman Brothers Band, "Midnight Rider"
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7A2acBVENA
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     1. 2/10/2011 8:58 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        The Allman Brothers Band, "Ramblin' Man":
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x28jaeyX2s
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  2. 1/10/2011 6:07 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Frenemy: (noun) An enemy who pretends to be your friend.
     
     Boo Boo as turn-coat to Yogi Bear:
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6w0r-ScEG4
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     1. 1/12/2011 10:51 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        "Why Can't We Be Friends," is the title of the great song by WAR.
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DmYLrxR0Y8
        
        Apparently, humans do not have a monopoly on bad behavior toward each other of the same species:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPznMbNcfO8
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        1. 1/12/2011 11:15 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           It could be that the chimpanzee in the previous clip told some other to go home and get his shine box:
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RyqtrGnicc
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           1. 1/31/2011 8:17 AM scrivener5 wrote:
              As mom used to say, it's always funny until somebody gets their eyes poked out. All giggles and squirm until it gets serious. Just like this episode from "The Sopranos." Sometimes, breaking stones can go too far. Just a little bit:
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc1wSceMx7s
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        2. 1/19/2011 12:02 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           Sanford and Son.
           Greatest sitcom, ever.
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqazleR3FE
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           1. 1/21/2011 12:29 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Sitcoms used to open with a little skit. Then, the theme music for the show.
              
              Here, Don Knotts, as the account representative for a repossession company, takes action against one, delinquent customer, a said-Mr. Kincaid (played by Bill Cosby). Bill Cosby owes back-payment on his television and Don Knotts has a strategy to get paid. Now.
              
              The "Bill Cosby Show" theme music was the funk-iest until the launch of the theme music for "Sanford and Son," scored by Quincy Jones.
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyyXeyww854&feature=related
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              1. 1/22/2011 5:48 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 To call Bill Cosby a "genius" does not do enough tribute to Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby not only influenced Richard Pryor and other great comedians, Bill Cosby is a patriot!
                 
                 Here is Bill Cosby, Sidney Poitier, and Harry Belafonte in "Uptown Saturday Night," an incredible masterpiece of comedy:
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxx9Ss6J5Dg&feature=related
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                 1. 2/1/2011 4:44 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    Richard Pryor, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams in "Bingo Long and the Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings":
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt_3zu3ayvY
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              2. 2/13/2011 6:31 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 BILL COSBY WEIGHS IN:
                 
                 Dr.. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed..D.:
                 
                 'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.
                 I can't even talk the way these people talk:
                 Why you isn't,
                 Where you is,
                 What he drive,
                 Where he stay,
                 Where he work,
                 Who you be...
                 
                 And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
                 And then I heard the father talk.
                 Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth
                 In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.
                 People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.
                 The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
                 These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.
                 $500 sneakers for what?
                 And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.
                 I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
                 Where were you when he was 2?
                 Where were you when he was 12?
                 Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?
                 And where is the father? Or who is his father?
                 People putting their clothes on backward:
                 Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?
                 People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?
                 Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?
                 What part of Africa did this come from??
                 We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa .....
                 I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.
                 I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !
                 
                 With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap ......... And all of them are in jail.
                 Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
                 We have got to take the neighborhood back.
                 
                 People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.
                 We have millionaire football players who cannot read.
                 
                 We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.
                 
                 Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.
                 We have to start holding each other to a higher standard..
                 
                 We cannot blame the white people any longer.'
                 Dr.. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed..D.
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           2. 1/29/2011 2:40 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              The theme music for "The Munsters":
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUftpgCf8yE&feature=related
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     2. 1/29/2011 6:50 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Peter Tosh, "That's What Your Friends Will Do"
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPJP0tbhAVQ
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  3. 1/19/2011 8:25 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Dolly Parton, "Coat of Many Colors"
     
     Total and complete "refutiation" of the arrogant and cocky blow-hards:
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1zJzr-kWsI
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  4. 1/20/2011 10:56 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Jack Nicholson, "The Departed":
     
     'No one gives it to you..."
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nUFxsZqpA
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     1. 1/23/2011 5:39 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        The fools who have foot in mouth disease need a stern talking-to from Al Pacino in "Glengarry Glen Ross"
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HURJNd0J4U
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        1. 1/25/2011 6:49 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           Al Pacino was great from the start of his career. Mario Puzo wrote Michael Corleone with Pacino in mind. Here, in the original "Godfather," Michael Corleone very deliberately and methodically exacts revenge on those who dared harm his father:
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kTQFyMRSXk
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  5. 1/21/2011 8:56 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Clarence Carter, "Patches."
     Anybody Hu Jintao big-wig in China wants to know why we ain't nothin' to mess with best hear this:
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rhy2rBqrao
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  6. 1/23/2011 8:32 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     Those hand-clappin' folk in Kenny Rogers's "The Gambler" video are my people! I remember when I was stationed in the Deep South and I referred to "soul food" back up North. This "good old boy" looked at me and said that I was a Yankee because Down South there ain't no soul food. What do you call it, then? I asked. He simply said, "We call it FOOD." Amen, Brother!
     
     Here's the Pistol-Packin' Papa His-Self, Jimmy Rodgers, Father of Country Music:
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa_a7cUJc4o
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     1. 1/23/2011 8:37 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        WORKING LINK of Jimmie Rodgers, Father of Country Music, "Pistol Packin' Papa":
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa_a7cUjC4o
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        1. 1/26/2011 6:42 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           Steve McQueen, in "The Getaway," could really handle his pistols:
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDlNIPCirLk
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        2. 2/1/2011 6:32 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           "Deliverance." The dueling banjos scene:
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzae_SqbmDE
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           1. 2/1/2011 6:44 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Jimmie Rodgers, Father of Country Music, "T for Texas":
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEIBmGZxAhg
              
              
              Howlin' Wolf learned his yodel from Jimmie Rodgers. Here's "Spoonful":
              
              "It could be a spoonful of water that saves you from the desert sand. But a little spoon of a little .45 [caliber pistol] will save you from another man."
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aIjyX7vwI
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              1. 2/7/2011 7:15 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 Best cover EVER of Jimmie Rodgers tune, "Sleep Baby Sleep," that was famously covered by Alfalfa in the Little Rascals:
                 
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klqBUJk8YSQ
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              2. 2/20/2011 6:24 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 The music recording industry was BASICALLY BUILT by the content provided to RCA and the record playing companies by Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family:
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIZIqsRZreY
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           2. 2/7/2011 7:23 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Chicken in the bread pan pickin' out dough--
              Swing your partner and dosey doe!
              
              Bugs Bunny plays a mean fiddle:
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQQGSsI87kA&feature=related
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              1. 2/10/2011 6:49 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 "The Devil Went Down to Georgis," Charlie Daniels:
                 
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDm_ZHyYTrg
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                 1. 2/11/2011 1:44 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    "Killer Bees," Wu Tang Clan:
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIqrvUqp7Ok
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                    1. 2/11/2011 1:54 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       "I Just Want to Be (What You Want Me to Be)," CAMEO:
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ybfFXOe8k
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                       1. 2/11/2011 1:58 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          "Atomic Dog," Parliament-Funkadelic:
                          
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyS9M8T03A
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                          1. 2/11/2011 2:06 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             George Thorogood, "I Drink Alone," :
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftiJRiONy4o&feature=related
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                             1. 2/11/2011 2:42 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                "Space Cowboy," Steve Miller Band:
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yle1USyhCY
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                                1. 2/13/2011 2:07 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                   SITUATION: You're in a bar where they only play two kinds of music...Country AND Western. You are a blues band. Irate customers of the tavern are throwing glass bottles of beer at the chicken-wire separating you from the crown.
                                   
                                   ISSUE: What do you do?
                                   
                                   SOLUTION: You improvise, like the Blues Brothers:
                                   
                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5N35kQAPv0
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                                   1. 2/13/2011 6:15 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                      Elwood Blues to Waitress: "So, what kind of music do you play here?"
                                      
                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZfUnCK5qk
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           3. 2/14/2011 7:46 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Jackie Gleason as the honorable Sheriff Bufort T. Justice, "Smokey and the Bandit" :
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H71AzUzR20
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           4. 3/3/2011 6:02 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Tribute to the "inbred" scene of "Devil's Rejects"
              
              CHICKEN LOVER:
              
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dlUZ6N9CJg
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  7. 1/24/2011 9:23 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
     This very well could be the most EPIC television commercial ever conceived by a human mind! Burger King really out-did itself with "The Tendercrisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch":
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cffi7vkQZcI
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     1. 1/27/2011 11:35 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Lee Michaels, "Do You Know What I Mean?"
        
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fymw5ie9Zd4
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     2. 1/31/2011 9:47 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        A worthy amateur with his rendition of the Burger King jingle, "The Tendercrisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch":
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHkeADcr2vg&feature=related
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        1. 2/4/2011 8:52 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
           Go Roku Shichi Hachi (5,6,7,8 Band)
           
           "Woo Hoo"
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIKORxPeFq8&feature=related
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           1. 2/7/2011 2:57 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
              Marvin Gaye's rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner":
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvVzaQ6i8A
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              1. 3/27/2011 6:31 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 The June 2011 FYLSE Baby Bar exam requires a little thought and some advance planning. Every soldier, marine, sailor, airman, and guardsman knows that you just HAVE to do your reconnaissance if you want to be successful in your military campaign.
                 
                 Treat the FYLSE as a military campaign. You have a clearly-defined objective: You MUST pass!
                 
                 The logistics of your campaign require advance planning. Don't wait until you get to Pasadena or Oakland to try to scrounge up and cobble together a half-baked mission on the fly. Know in advance what you must do.
                 
                 (1) Get a nice hotel room.
                 I used priceline.com to get a GREAT room at a hotel that offered free hot breakfasts and free happy hours!
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDW11Dei-Ro&feature=related
                 
                 The hot breakfasts were exactly that...HOT! No "continental" breakfast fare with just cold cereal and orange slices. We're talkin' bacon, eggs, sausage, french toast with maple syrup, hot oatmeal, SOS (esso ess is what we called it in the military...creamed beef on toast AKA "stuff"-on-a-shingle--hence, SOS), jams and jellies and all the fixins!
                 
                 Call around to the available hotels and find out which ones have the good grub!
                 
                 (2) Locate the convenience stores.
                 
                 You're gonna have to buy incidentals and stuff you forgot to pack.
                 
                 (3) Locate where your Law School's review/seminar is being held.
                 
                 You do NOT want to skip this ESSENTIAL class!
                 
                 (4) Locate where you're going to have lunch during the break after the four-hour morning essay session.
                 
                 You do NOT want to hang around the other test-takers who are freaking out over the morning essay questions!
                 
                 (5) Do logistics on how to make your trip home.
                 
                 Always do your homework! Plan your exit strategy!
                 
                 Hope this helps!
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                 1. 4/2/2011 6:37 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    Good nutrition is vital to a healthy, well-functioning brain. Breakfast is a GREAT start to the day.
                    
                    I prefer to cook my own breakfast. However, when out of town and needing a quick break to a famished fast, sometimes a fast-food eatery is the only option.
                    
                    Some people swear by McDonald's. I like their Big Breakfast. Not quite big enough for my taste, but it gets her done.
                    
                    Some people swear by Burger King. I find their croissants too cake-y and/or flour-y. And another thing, that Burger King is an odd character. Check out this video. There is something ODDLY uncomfortable about having the Burger King waking up with you:
                    
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4_5qoy4oaQ
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                    1. 4/5/2011 11:35 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       The Burger King is NOT to be trusted:
                       
                       
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCfULQUx1V8&feature=related
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                       1. 4/24/2011 8:58 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          Chef from South Park, "Make Love to Ya, Woman":
                          
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ0WpdTin4c
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                          1. 5/5/2011 2:13 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             Good Lord! I LOVE me some chicken!
                             Maybe--Like Dave Chappelle says--I'm genetically predisposed to like me some fried chicken! Yum!
                             
                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ4B7G8Rw3Q
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                             1. 5/5/2011 2:41 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                                Happy Cinco de Mayo!
                                
                                Here's Pee Wee Herman with his Tequila dance:
                                
                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVKsd8z6scw
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     3. 5/12/2011 1:07 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Amazingly good beer commercial:
        
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc6U7_-BeGc&feature=related
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        1. 9/6/2011 9:38 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           I remember when boxing used to be a big-time sport. Howard Cosell would call the fights on WABC television. Anyway, the greatest boxer back in the late 60's and 1970's was The Greatest, Muhammad Ali.
           
           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvDok3kjB7c
           
           I remember seeing a documentary, at that time, of Ali trudging out early in the morning to do his 5 AM work-out. I remember Dick Cavett, the television host, recalling how he went to Ali's training camp in the Pennsylvania mountains. Dick Cavett said that he saw Ali's training boots lying on the floor and tried them on. Mr. Cavett said that he could barely walk in them. Muhammad Ali's boots were weighted with lead!
           
           When Ali was jogging, his boots just looked like a pair of training boots to the uninformed gawker. They were lead-weighted boots that added tens of pounds more to his jog.
           
           The point is that the "Ali Shuffle"--his quick foot-work in the ring before he knocked out an opponent--was not a fluke.
           
           Ali trained.
           
           
           
           Here's an interesting site on the New York bar exam. From what I understand, questions from other jurisdictions often show up on the California bar exam.
           
           http://www.nybarexam.org/ExamQuestions/ExamQuestions.htm
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• 5/4/2010 6:54 AM The guy wrote:
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  Hey Guys,
  
  I just made a the first facebook Baby Bar group. Please join, I want us to be able to make this test a thing of the past, either that or make all the ABA kids take it to so its fair at least. Because right now its way too hard and unfair. I have actually passed the thing guys! Well join up guys!
  
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  1. 4/3/2011 7:56 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     It never ceases to amaze me how stupid people can be. Especially when they're law STUDENTS. We are students. We don't give legal advice. That is, unless we are:
     (1) arrogant and/or
     (2) incompetent and/or
     (3) stupid.
     
     When someone asks me for my legal opinion, then I have a standard answer: Get yourself in the office of a good lawyer. Period. End of story.
     
     I am NOT:
     (1) a lawyer
     (2) covered by legal malpractice insurance
     (3) and getting paid for my opinion.
     
     Here's a story today about alleged judicial poor judgment:
     
     
     
     
     Judge is accused of acting as informal legal adviser to township's then-mayor
     
     For at least two years, Seth Davenport acted both as Montville’s municipal court judge and as an informal legal adviser to the township’s then-mayor, a state advisory panel has alleged.
     
     He then misrepresented his relationship with Mayor John Rosellini in a sworn statement filed with state Superior Court in Morristown, according to a complaint issued late last month by the state’s advisory committee on judicial conduct.
     
     Davenport did not return calls seeking comment but, according to the complaint, has admitted to the advisory committee his conduct had been "improper."
     
     
     
     http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/ex-montville_judge_is_accused.html
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     1. 9/15/2011 8:39 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        Benjamin Franklin, the greatest scientist of his day, famously opined this about beer:
        
        
        http://thinkexist.com/quotation/beer_is_proof_that_god_loves_us_and_wants_us_to/146025.html
        
        "Beer is proof that God loves us and He wants us to be happy."
        --Benjamin Frankin
        
        
        I am a beer fan, myself. Of course, Congressional Medal of Honor Marine, Dakota Meyer, deserves a few kegs of whatever brew he darn well enjoys!
        
        However, if I were President of the United States then beer would be way down on my list of priorities. Furthermore, I would NOT spend time inquiring into domestic spats involving a hot-headed Harvard professor and a Boston cop, much less would I even want to have a beer with them at a so-called "Beer Summit." at the White House with the Vice-President.
        
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy
        
        In fact, if I were President of the United States then going on daytime talk shows and appearing on night time variety shows, and hosting celebrity roasts, would be way, way down on my list of priorites. Furthermore, if I were President of the United States, and if I inherited a multi-TRILLION dollar deficit, and if I inherited two wars, then there is no way that I would be golfing with Tiger Woods or any other golfer, for that matter.
        
        Just my opinion, of course, and as I like to say: Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody's got ONE.
        
        --Scrivener5
        
        
        http://news.yahoo.com/medal-beer-obama-marine-234219315.html
        
        
        
        Before the medal, a beer for Obama and Marine
        
        WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has shared a beer with Dakota Meyer at the White House the evening before presenting the former Marine with the Medal of Honor.
        
        The White House revealed the private moment shared by the two men Wednesday evening on the patio outside of the Oval Office. A White House ceremony to bestow the medal to Meyer is set for Thursday.
        
        Meyer saved 36 lives during an ambush in September of 2009 by insurgents in Afghanistan. He is credited with saving 13 Marines and Army soldiers, along with 23 Afghan soldiers. The military says Meyer personally killed at least eight insurgents despite being wounded himself.
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• 7/17/2010 8:37 AM Karen wrote:
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  1. 4/4/2011 6:05 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     When you look up perseverance and dedication to passing the bar exam, then this guy pops up:
     
     http://californiagbx0707.blogspot.com/
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     1. 4/4/2011 6:18 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        This is an interesting site:
        
        "... analysis and format count for a lot on the essays. California has fewer, but longer, essays than most other states, with 6 one-hour essays. It's worth taking the time to format the answers to bring out the issues. Analysis, unfortunately, seems to be the kicker for some. I don't think there's a silver bullet for slaying it. If you're struggling in your analysis in law school on your exams, be sure you work it out before the bar exam."
        
        http://www.nontradlaw.net/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=84645
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        1. 4/4/2011 6:28 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           Here's an interesting site:
           
           
           http://vabarexam.blogspot.com/
           
           FOR ALL CRIMES YOU NEED:
           ACTUS REUS
           MENS REA
           Transferred intent: Homicide, battery, arson
           Corporations can’t have mens rea
           CONCURRENCE
           Actus Reus must occur at same time that D has mens rea.
           CAUSATION (sometimes)
           For homicide, V must die.
           
           SPECIFIC INTENT CRIMES
           Solicitation
           Attempt
           Conspiracy
           First Degree Murder
           Assault (Attempted Battery theory)
           Larceny
           Robbery
           Burglary
           Forgery
           False Pretenses
           Embezzlement
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           1. 4/4/2011 6:43 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              This, too, is an interesting site:
              
              
              It really is IRAC all the way. And use all the facts you can in your analysis. If you didn't use all the facts, you are probably missing an issue."
              
              http://clearingthebarexam.blogspot.com/
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              1. 10/21/2011 9:04 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 Last night's World Series game between the Texas Rangers at the St. Louis Cardinals was one of the greatest comebacks in baseball history! It was accomplished by perserverance and stick-to-it-iveness! Preparation for the California FYLSE Baby Bar exam is similar to baseball in that you have to methodically, assiduously, relentlessly focus and prepare!
                 
                 Baseball is the most unique of all America's sports. Baseball--unlike football, basketball, or hockey--does not have a time clock. A baseball game can last for hours on end until (1) completed or (2) until the officials suspend play until a time when the game may be resumed. Baseball is a team sport. Coaches and managers are integral to the game and can stop play in order to discuss strategy with individual players.
                 
                 Although baseball is a team sport, individual statistics count for so much. Mention the number 714 or the number 755 and every baseball fan knows to what individual statistic you are referring. Perhaps the most unique feature of baseball--unlike in other sports such as football, or basketball, or hockey--is that the defensive teamn has possession of the ball duing play.
                 
                 As a sport created in America, in Hoboken, New Jersey, (also the birthplace of Frank Sinatra!) baseball has been identified strongly with the positive qualities often attributed to American inventions such as jazz. Baseball has strategy, focus, determination, ingenuity, and improvisation.
                 
                 By pluck and by luck , by grit and wit, by stick-to-it-iveness and sheer determination, by believing in yourself and in your team, contributing your talents and drive, you as a baseball player can achieve glory!
                 
                 Though baseball has no final bell, as in boxing; no final gun, as in football; no final buzzer as in basketball; no final horn, as in hocky; baseball DOES have one of the most dramatic, and most beautiful, of all storybook endings: the walk-off homerun, where an individual player, through timing and execution, tracks a 100-mile-per-hour baseball thrown at him, and smacks it over the fence.
                 
                 --Scrivener5
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  1. 5/13/2011 9:17 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
     My son recently asked me to give him some tips and pointers on attracting women. I was happy to share what I know on that subject...namely, that good hygiene and not looking like a slob help one's cause.
     
     Most of all, a man must be interesting:
     
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bc0WjTT0Ps
     
     
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-4zfsy6rsM&feature=related
     
     
     Here's another interesting site:
     
     
     
     http://www.myrandomtangents.com/2009/10/03/studying-to-pass-the-bar-exam/
     
     Studying for the bar exam is boring, monotonous, tiring, and generally unpleasant. I’m a person who enjoys learning, and generally enjoyed law school. However bar study is nothing like law school, and loving to learn will not make the bar exam study process enjoyable. Instead, bar study simply consists of cramming black letter law into one’s brain, glossing over the intricacies. That is because the bar exam tests many areas of law and asks only superficial questions, to which the bar exam taker must respond with a superficial answer.
     
     This sort of tedious studying for two months isn’t fun by any stretch of the imagination. Some bar exam takers apparently find it difficult to stay focused – however I had no problem staying motivated and on schedule, thanks to one simple thing:
     
     FEAR.
     
     Whenever I felt like slacking off, I just took a minute to envision myself failing the bar.
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     1. 6/1/2011 7:17 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhqbESuc2v8
        
        
        Charlie Rich, "Did you happen to see.."
        
        
        "Hey.
        Did you happen to see
        The Most Beautiful girl in the world?
        
        And if you did,
        Was she crying?
        
        Hey.
        Did you happen to see
        The Most Beautiful Girl
        That walked out on me?
        
        Tell her I'm sorry.
        Tell her I need my Baby.
        Oh--
        Won't you tell her
        That I love her."
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        1. 6/16/2011 3:06 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
           Congratulations, Boston Bruins!
           
           I remember back in the 1980s when I was talking to my Boston friend, Kevin.
           
           I was chatting with Kevin and his friend and the topic of sports came up. I (innocently) asked Kevin what teams he rooted for.
           
           Kevin and his friend turned and looked at me as if I was a three-headed alien from outer space.
           
           "The Bruins, the Pats, and the Sox," he stated, clearly, succinctly, and obviously.
           
           His friend looked as if he wanted to fight me for having the nerve to even ask.
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           1. 6/16/2011 3:16 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
              The best song to play for the Boston Bruins is "Celebration," by Kool and the Gang.
              
              Nope. Here's "Jungle Boogie."
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgynbFoA9to
              
              
              Down Goes Frazier! Down Goes Frazier!
              
              
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9q7mvc6bsY
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              1. 6/16/2011 3:21 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                 Yes!
                 
                 "I've Seen All Good People"
                 
                 
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvPyT-YGUIg
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                 1. 6/16/2011 3:30 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                    To ALL of my Boston Irish hooligans,
                    Congratulations on the Boston Bruins WIN!
                    
                    Jump Around!
                    
                    
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwQbPgouUYo
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                    1. 6/20/2011 10:07 PM Scrivener5 wrote:
                       I am NOT a political partisan. Yes, I voted for President Obama. No, I do NOT think that he deserves a second term.
                       
                       NO, I do NOT think that the Republicans have their act together. If they were serious, then then would rally behind a real leader...most likely a WOMAN who is conservative and smart.
                       
                       Obviously, that eliminates Sarah Palin.
                       
                       Seriously, the Republicans need a smart strategist.
                       
                       This election is for the Republicans to lose. If they are stupid, then they will.
                       
                       
                       --Scrivener5
                       
                       
                       P.S.
                       
                       The first ever Republican was NOT a safe bet. His name was Abraham Lincoln.
                       
                       I honestly believe that if a bold, swift move is made, the Republicans can win.
                       
                       How?
                       
                       Okay. Here's a for instance. Not that it will happen. Probably, this scenario will never happen at all. But, here is a win for the Republican party:
                       
                       The Republicans recruit and obtain HILLARY CLINTON. They run her as the opponent to President Obama. Hillary Clinton trounces President Obama and becomes the next POTUS.
                       
                       Ain't gonna happen. Yes, but it would WORK.
                       
                       
                       
                       There was a President of the United States (POTUS) who was the recipient of the highest Peace prize and the highest War prize...the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Medal of Honor.
                       
                       There was POTUS who was the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS.
                       
                       The former POTUS ran a Bull Moose campaign that crippled the latter POTUS. A New Jersey Governor, a Democrat, won. His name was Woodrow Wilson.
                       
                       The former POTUS, who was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Medal of Honor, was Teddy Roosevelt.
                       
                       The POTUS who was the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS and who lost because of Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party was WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT.
                       
                       Stranger things have happened.
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                       1. 6/21/2011 6:59 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                          President Obama has done adequate service.
                          
                          That said,
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKG07305CBs
                          
                          
                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2cYRKWP60E
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                          1. 8/30/2011 8:20 AM Scrivener5 wrote:
                             There's a great scene in the movie, "Thelma and Louise," in which Harvey Keitel plays a detective who's trying to track down Thelma and Louise for a homicide they committed while being raped. The cops are having a hard time finding them and a young lieutenant remarks to Keitel that Thelma and Louise are either very smart or very lucky.
                             
                             Harvey Keitel replies that "Smarts only gets you so far. And your luck ALWAYS runs out."
                             
                             President Obama is a very smart man who's luck seems to have run out.
                             
                             On National Public Radio last week, I heard a program discussing Coping versus Adapting. The presenter explained that Coping is when you roll with the punches. Adapting is when you adjust your strategy to changing circumstances, and then when you counter-punch and strike back for the WIN. Muhammad Ali was the Greatest of All Times (as he liked to boast) because he could adapt. President Obama is good at coping. Coping leaves one "adequate" or "sufficient" but NOT a winner.
                             
                             That said, the FYLSE California Baby Bar exam is NOT about winning. The FYLSE is about coping. One sure way to fail the FYLSE is to go into the exam trying to pass. You do NOT try to pass the FYLSE. In order to win, you MUST try not to fail.
                             
                             This is counter-intuitive, but in my opinion, this is the situation you have to deal with. My opinion is based on my experiences. To win on the FYLSE requires that you try not to fail.
                             
                             (1) The FYLSE is pass/fail.
                             (2) The FYLSE is graded in two parts, one essay and the other multiple choice. The essay part is graded by attorneys. Good luck with trying to impress them!
                             
                             President Obama is a smart man. Barack Obama WAS the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review. In law school, Mr. Obama was at the top of his game. However, President Obama is NOT a rocket scientist.
                             
                             As a matter of fact, President Jimmy Carter WAS a nuclear physicist. Both President Obama and President Carter are accused by some critics of being losers because they try NOT to lose.
                             
                             There is a good reason--in my opinion--why President Obama did so well in law school. There is a good reason why he became editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review. Harvard Law School is considered by many folk of being THE premier law school of ALL law schools.
                             
                             President Obama plays NOT to lose.
                             
                             My theory is that, in order to be successful on the FYLSE California Baby Bar exam, you must try NOT to fail. But, you should NOT try to win.
                             
                             Trying to win is reserved for those trying to be a champion or a hero. Do NOT try to be a hero on the FYLSE (if you want to win!).
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