I'm sure most people can be categorized as likeable enough, and I'm certain there's a few of you that would caution me that disdain for my fellow man will get me a one-way ticket to H-E double hockey sticks, but after my last couple depos, I've simply decided to add the entire free world to my s#!t list.

My dislike for the human race began at the onset of a 450-page day, whereupon after three questions I had to interrupt the depo to stop the witness from speaking over everyone else in the room (a new personal record); I then proceeded to bark at this tool innumerable times during the remainder of the day for the same offense. He was one of these "born salesman" types who just wanted to proclaim his innocence, plead his case, and he wasn't gonna wait for some attorney to ask him questions about it. Opposing counsel said nothing all day, and the guy taking the depo wasn't about to cut off the testimony. He just kept supplying this babbling fool with enough rope to hang himself and his extended family (including pets), and with each tirade the noose got a little more snug. I just took my whoopin' like Gerry Cooney and hoped for a better day tomorrow.

As the fates would have it, tomorrow came, and, yes, Annie, the sun did come out... a cold, black, hateful sun. Still punchy from Monday, next up was a 350-page Danish inventor in an IP case whose English was only marginally better than the chef from The Muppet Show -- Swedish, Danish, what's the difference? I would ask this guy to repeat things three and four times, and even going back to the tape, I still don't have a freakin' clue what he was saying. Might put in a couple extra errata sheets on this one.

"There are two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch" - Michael Caine as Nigel Powers in Goldmember