The Tennessee State Bar Exam - Great Moments in Gotcha

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By James Bowden

It sounds like there may have been much ado about nothing over the weekend over the way that the Tennessee bar exam will be graded. I’m not sure what happened, but it sounds like some folks felt like they had the rug pulled out from under them – and taking the bar is stressful enough. So, in the interest of providing perspective, here are a few historical examples of folks finding out at the last minute that things were not going to go as planned, in much more spectacular fashion than this weekend’s events:
  • Early reports say that you’ve just won the presidency, beating an unpopular incumbent. The papers are even reporting that you whipped him. No, wait …the other guy is still president and you’re still just some guy.
  • You’ve convinced a major network to axe a popular late night television show host so that you can take his place. You’re a star of late night comedy, so of course you’ll be an instant hit!  Wait, what did you say my ratings are?
  • You’ve just forced the other team’s quarterback to fumble and recovered the ball in the last seconds of the AFC Championship Game, and now you can kneel on the ball. Next stop, Super Bowl! No, wait …What the heck is the Tuck Rule?!!
  • You’ve caught the British off guard in New Orleans, and your army takes the opportunity to rout them. Hurray! Your military exploits will have won the war for America! Wait, what? The war is already over? The mail sure is slow in the nineteenth century. Where is Ghent, anyways?
  • You declare that your Soviet Union will bury the west’s weak, piddling “democracy” and “freedom.” Wait, not so much.

In all seriousness, good luck on the bar exam for everyone who is taking it. It might be difficult, but you will be glad you did it. And it will be over before you know it.

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