"The thousand-yard (distant) stare of a woman who knows her centaurs"

doggerel verse - crude, rude, poor (perhaps comic) verse

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/10/20/j-k-rowling-at-carnegie-hall-reveals-dumbledore-is-gay-neville-marries-hannah-abbott-and-scores-more

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Full article can be found here:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19422_6-judges-who-went-completely-insane-bench_p2.html

We thought that we would never see

A suit to compensate a tree.

A suit whose claim in tort is prest

Upon a mangled tree's behest;

A tree whose battered trunk was prest

Against a Chevy's crumpled crest;

A tree that faces each new day

With bark and limb in disarray;

A tree that may forever bear

A lasting need for tender care.

Flora lovers though we three,

We must uphold the court's decree.

United States v. One 1976 Ford F-150 Pickup, 599 F. Supp. 818

The defendant herein is a truck

The vehicle is a pick-up,

Alleged by a Fed

To be found in a bed

Of marijuana, caught in the muck.

Joe Hand Promotions v. Sports Page Caf, 940 F. Supp. 102 (D.N.J. 1996)

Defendants allegedly exhibited the match

In their respective taverns for their patrons to catch.

Plaintiff's complaint is based on that section

Installed in the Code for easy inspection

Which forbids such transmissions, recorded or live:

47 U.S.C. Section 605.

Mackensworth v. American Trading Transportation Co., 367 F. Supp. 373 (E.D. Pa. 1973)

The motion now before us has stirred up a terrible fuss.

And what is considerably worse,

It has spawned some preposterous doggerel verse.