Sharp on #Vulnerability--Expectations of Justice Through Accounts of Terror of Twitter @popgoesthelegal @OxfordCSLS

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Brexit and Popular Culture

Popular culture references and comparisons are beginning to emerge in the wake of Brexit. Steve Peers @StevePeers invokes a Star Trek: The Original Series reference for a job for Nigel Farage, who has stepped down as the leader of the United Kingdom Independent Party.

Steve Peers ‏@StevePeers  6h6 hours ago

Any of the jobs done by any of those guys in red shirts #suggestajobforFarage

Oh, feel the burn (not Sanders, or Switzerland, which is not a member state of the EU).

David Allen Green @David Allen Green quotes both Arthur Conan Doyle and Samuel Becket in tweets about failure to invoke Article 50 of the TEU.

David Allen Green ‏@DavidAllenGreen [tweeted July 4] “The curious incident of the Article 50 notification.” - There was no notification. “That was the curious incident,” remarked Holmes. The line occurs in the short story, "Silver Blaze." Here's the excerpt.

Gregory: Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention.
Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
Gregory: The dog did nothing in the night-time.
Holmes: That was the curious incident.

Holmes notes that a watchdog that alerts on the presence of strangers did not do so when someone approached on this occasion. Thus, the dog knew the person who approached it, This observation has now become so obvious a deduction for pop culture detectives on tv and in film whenever a dog is in a scene that if either a professional or amateur sleuth doesn't mention the dog's behavior, viewers automatically know that the detective is an idiot (and that the screenwriter has never read the literature, or seen any mystery or detective movies or tv over the past 50 years). It would be interesting and novel to substitute a cat or a ferret for the dog in some of these scripts. Monkeys and parrots have been done, BTW (Columbo: Death Hits the Jackpot (1991)) and Perry Mason: The Case of the Perjured Parrot (1958)).

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has also become a Tony-winning Broadway Play.

David Allen Green ‏@DavidAllenGreen Jun 25 ESTRAGON: Well, shall we Leave? VLADIMIR: Yes, let's Leave. (They do not send the Article 50 Notification.)

(Parodying Waiting for Godot). Mr. Green has retweeted it numerous times. He is understandably quite fond of it; it's clever, but also, we've been Waiting For Brexit for a month. It's sort of like Waiting To Brexhale.

And this long hommage to Samuel Beckett, from a number of Tweeters:

1. Libby Purves ‏@lib_thinks  Jul 22

   Libby Purves Retweeted Tom Littler

   Love it. Samuel Brexit: Waiting For Article 50. Not Endgame Yet.

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   Tom Littler @littler_tom
   

   Vladimir: Well? Shall we Brexit? Estragon: Yes, let's Brexit. They do not Brexit. (Or they do. Because we don't know WHAT IT MEANS.)

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2. Matthew Scott ‏@Barristerblog  Jul 22

   @lib_thinks @littler_tom Good but @DavidAllenGreen's been doing it for months.

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3. Tom Littler ‏@littler_tom  Jul 22

   @Barristerblog @lib_thinks @DavidAllenGreen Oh God(ot). No idea; apols. The Beckett Estate will shut it all down anyway.

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4. David Allen Green ‏@DavidAllenGreen  Jul 22

   David Allen Green Retweeted David Allen Green

   @littler_tom @Barristerblog @lib_thinks This was my effort

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   David Allen Green @DavidAllenGreen
   

   ESTRAGON: Well, shall we Leave? VLADIMIR: Yes, let's Leave. (They do not send the Article 50 Notification.)

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Tom Littler‏@littler_tom

@DavidAllenGreen @Barristerblog @lib_thinks Bravo. The last line of Endgame actually is: 'You ... remain.' (Pause. Remains motionless.)

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   David Allen Green ‏@DavidAllenGreen  Jul 22
   @littler_tom @Barristerblog @lib_thinks Ha ha, brilliant!
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   Gabriel Rozenberg ‏@rozgab  Jul 22
   @DavidAllenGreen @littler_tom @Barristerblog @lib_thinks & Clov stands, ‘dressed for the road’, to leave his master at last… but never moves
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   Andrew Hartle ‏@startle65  Jul 22
   @littler_tom @DavidAllenGreen @Barristerblog @lib_thinks Barrister humour may yet challenge Military Intelligence for the Oxymoron Cup
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   Jane Furniss ‏@MaryjaneFurniss  Jul 25
   @startle65 @littler_tom @DavidAllenGreen @Barristerblog @lib_thinks criminal justice a good entry, presently for Oxymoron Cup
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   Finally (at least for this post), I found this quotation in Act 1 in Beckett's Waiting for Godot that may be of interest.
   
   
   “Estragon: We've lost our rights?"
   "Vladimir: We got rid of them.”
   Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Act I.
   We are bound to have a lot more fun with all of this, and I haven't even gotten to all the cats, Brexit, and pop culture refs yet. But let's mind the gap, keep calm and carry on, and channel our inner Brit. There's lots of humo(u)r to be had in punning and in poking fun at the apparent lack of movement in any direction, let alone One Direction. In the refusal of anyone in any official position anywhere at any time in any place to take any responsibility for anything to do with Brexit at all. Because Brexiting up is hard to do.