Coolest thing I've seen in my Business Law class

[J-Fuzz]

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"Suppose you arrange for Yo La Tengo and Ghostface Killah to appear together at a concert. Kind of odd, but you think it is a great idea."

fuckin' hipsters writing law texts...

[proroby]

I love Yo La Tengo but I agree, fuck hipsters and their hipping hip.

[morange]

Textbook writers clawing at the walls of the hole their life has become.

[dubkitty]

there's a decision out there in the Fed Supplements somewhere from the 80s or early 90s--no doubt clerked by a clever intern somewhere in New England--in which all the section headings are quotes from Talking Heads songs. Deadheads are also notorious for embedding that kind of stuff.

[D.o.S.]

If you had to write those, you'd do the same thing.

[dubkitty]

oh, i'd do worse than that. i'd name hypotheticals after 60's Formula 1 drivers, French Revolutionaries, and obscure hillbilly singers, and throw in random Surrealist, Situationist, and Brian Eno references just for lulz.

[culturejam]

The AMA Style guide (American Medical Association) uses some fun hip-hop lyrics in the section on proper capitalization. They even fixed up the grammar a bit:

There is no party like a West Coast party because a West Coast party doesn't stop.

I stumbled on that one day at work, back when I was managing editor of a medical journal.

[J-Fuzz]

If you had to write those, you'd do the same thing.

just joking about the hipster thing, but you're right. i absolutely would.

[D.o.S.]

oh, i'd do worse than that. i'd name hypotheticals after 60's Formula 1 drivers, French Revolutionaries, and obscure hillbilly singers, and throw in random Surrealist, Situationist, and Brian Eno references just for lulz.

I like you.

A friend of mine had an article published in a hip-hop quarterly--their style guide was fantastic.