Lex Anteinternet: February 16, 1971. Fuddle Duddle.

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

February 16, 1971. Fuddle Duddle.

Characters of the day, President Richard Nixon, left and Prime Minister Trudeau, right, in Ottawa, 1972.

On this day in 1971, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau said something probably off color in a debate in the House of Commons. Asked about it by the press, he passed it off as having said "fuddle duddle", or something.

Accordingly, fuddle duddle entered the Canadian lexicon.

Also on this day, President Nixon apparently started secretly taping conversations in the While House.

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This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

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