THANK YOU! Is the Board finally realizing it's tortured the DOFE far beyond its original intent, that of preventing the registration of a foreign word that is actually the name of the goods in English? (She asks, having written the same OA response countless times ...)

Now THAT’S what I call a #shitmanteau.

And where I learned the word!

Go Foxes! I am a year behind those luminaries. John was Tevye to my Golde at FLMS (he didn't graduate from FLHS). Sorry our paths didn't cross!

Eminently kvetch-worthy.

But someone, somewhere, offline, had to tell them how to do it, right? Because they clearly didn’t listen to “just pick up the goddamn phone instead of emailing.”

As an Old who was almost literally there at the dawn of e-discovery, I’m blown away by this revelation. It makes total sense though, and my first question about the emails being searchable was “but how do you search with that freestyle spelling?” Now I get it.

We Levys appreciate your guidance.

Feels "like" cashmere might imply that it's not, but since they're saying "cashmere-soft"? That shorthand ad-speak might do the trick to deceive.

Catching up on all the TV shows we sidelined during the baseball playoffs! Slow
Horses, GBBO, Only Murders, among others; and then want to start Pluribus.

Husband, also a trial lawyer, just sat on a jury last month and said the same. He was careful not to impose his views and was impressed with the way the jury worked together. Faith in the system reinforced!

Challah!

Mmm, Fruit Stripe. I can taste it just from the drawing.

I only learned about the roast beef initialism thing last year; with over half a century of consumerism under my belt, I just thought Arby's was a goofy down-home kind of name, so I'm going with fanciful.