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ARTICLE · 22 JULY 2019

Nearly Four Years Later… And I'm Making That James Bond Reference This Time

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Brian S. Faughnan
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So, if any of you are still around these parts after I've gone some 12 days without writing any content, then you are in for me dredging someone up that I previously wrote about on June 30, 2015. An attorney named Rodger Moore.

Rodger Moore. And he was suspended for the practice of law for conduct that involved stealing adult beverages (wine) and also stealing the oil of olives. You know... olives... the garnish that goes in a martini.

I guess back in the halcyon days of this venture I considered myself above making a James Bond reference? Well, I'm four years older now and don't consider myself above much of anything I guess. So...here goes.

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