Advanced Criminal Justice, Class 21, Period 1, 03.28.06

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Keeping with the low-impact lectures. Wheee. I may be slow to reply at work today, just FYI. Class Info Post.]

"Hello, class!" Tick said fron his normal position at the front of the room. "Remember, your projects are due next Tuesday. You'll have some time to work on them at the end of class, but today we go back to lecture and discussion as well."

"Today we'll be talking about private investigators. PIs. Private eyes. Private smurfs," Tick said to cover up any potentially dirty interpretation of a popular nickname. "Gumshoes. Among many other names. The profession of Holmes, Spade, Magnum, and Addison. I'm talking about the sometimes noble, sometimes skeezy, always interesting, world of private detecting."

"PIs often work for people in court cases for a number of purposes. Maybe they're checking to make sure a witness or defendant is on the up-and-up. Sometimes they're checking to see if a person with a signifcant other has another other that is in some way significant. And sometimes they're called upon to solve the big crimes that the police just can't figure out."

"In a way, they're almost like superheroes, only without powers, with a salary, and with more frequent trips into the bad parts of town for non-evil-whomping purposes. They outthink evil. And that's keen!"

"For discussion today, please talk aboutyour views on private eyeing. Have any experience with them? Seen them enough on television to know what's up? Are you one. and if so, do you have any stories to share? After this discussion, you can jump into your teams for the project if you need class time to work on them."

"This week's metaphor is umbrellas. And for extra credit, please come up with two more nicknames for private investigators. IF you get suggestive with the private smurves, though, you can only do so for one of the nicknames. So keep it clean!"

[OOC: Veronica has offered to answer questions about PIs.]

Comments

Teamwork! [Class 21]

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

For talking with your partner about your project.

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[can_be_more]

Aeryn glares at Jaye.

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[fates_jaye]

Jaye glares at Aeryn.

"You're the duck."

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[can_be_more]

"You're the damn duck."

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[fates_jaye]

"Am not. You are."

[Still feeling icky. Might nap soon.]

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[can_be_more]

"Frell off. I am not a duck."

[Np! Feel better!]

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[actingltcrumpet.livejournal.com]

Archie is doodling Smurfs in his notepad.

Smurfily.

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Yoyoyoyoyo," Cameron greets and looks at the doodles. "Smurfy."

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[actingltcrumpet.livejournal.com]

"Smurftastic, even," replies Archie. "Do we have any more smurfs that need to be smurfed out before we get to smurfing on this next week?"

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I think we smurfed out everything that needed to be smurfed. Unless you want to design the smurfy shirt with the smurfy buttons?" Cameron says.

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[actingltcrumpet.livejournal.com]

"Are you smurfing joking? Of course I would."

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[fh_jackass]

Logan's here.

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"So you come up with any ideas?"

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[fh_jackass]

"None," Logan admitted.

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Well they say that justice is blind," Marty said grasping for ideas. "Maybe we can put that theory to the test somehow."

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[fh_jackass]

"Hm," Logan said. "What if we set up a mock trial of some kind, using students as jurors?"

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker waits for Anakin, and draws a little Martian with a mallet while she kills time.

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin slid into a chair next to Parker. "Hey," he said, looking a little distracted.

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker looks up, then cocks an eyebrow at him. "Hey. You need more coffee?"

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

He finally focused his eyes. "What? Oh, no thanks. Long couple of days, that's all."

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam was there, but she got Bridge's e-mail, so she wasn't expecting him. There may have been many notes in her notebook about what was wrong with Wormhole X-treme, though.

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[janet_fraiser]

Janet had some notes on their project. She glanced around for Callisto.

The notes read -

The first episode of LightningKitties teaches that injustice, in the form of evil, corrupt, ancient Egyptian creatures in sarcophagai who think they're gods, needs to be combated. In fact, I'm fairly certain that they're making some kind of social commentary on ancient Egyptian mythology and the pervasiveness of injustice therein. For example, MummyRe, the main villain, has been holding an entire planet hostage to a fear based solely on his so-called magical abilities. But the LightningKitties band together as a superhero team to fight Egyptian Injustice. The LightningKitties know that this "ancient evil" is to be fought, rather than feared.


OOC: Yes, late, and I am very, very sorry about that.

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Callisto glanced over Janet's notes. "Funny, wonder why'd they choose the Egyptian gods in particular, ours are just as bad."

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[janet_fraiser]

"You know, I'm just not fond of any gods at all, but the Egyptian ones just seem really annoying," said Janet. She frowned. "I don't know, maybe they thought the pyramids would look cool and be easy to draw or something. Yours are Greek, right? I don't know about you, but I think atheism is all the rage these days."

Re: Teamwork! [Class 21]

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

"Aethism? That's where you don't believe in any gods right? Kinda like not believing in the rain," Callisto shrugged. "Besides it's not like I honour them anymore to begin with."