{"id":1308,"date":"2011-03-19T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/19\/reluctant-witness-refuses-to-admit-he-knows-what-a-photocopier-is\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T16:15:00","slug":"reluctant-witness-refuses-to-admit-he-knows-what-a-photocopier-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/19\/reluctant-witness-refuses-to-admit-he-knows-what-a-photocopier-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Reluctant witness refuses to admit he knows what a photocopier is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/_TuV87Hq4oo\/reluctant-witness-re.html\">Reluctant witness refuses to admit he knows what a photocopier is<\/a>: &#8220;In this transcript from an Ohio Supreme Court Case, a Cuyahoga County office worker refuses to answer a simple question: &#8216;has the Recorder&#8217;s office had photocopying machines?&#8217; The worker mainains (for ten pages!) that he doesn&#8217;t know what a photocopying machine is, and can&#8217;t say whether his office has one:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/craphound.com\/images\/5249803128_b673b97350.jpg?w=625\" align=\"right\"><br \/>Marburger: How about this: Have you ever heard the term &#8216;photocopier&#8217; or &#8216;photocopy&#8217; used in the Recorder&#8217;s office by anybody?<\/p>\n<p>Patterson: Photocopy? I&#8217;m sure in the time I&#8217;ve been there someone has used the term.<\/p>\n<p>Marburger: And have you ever heard them use it in referencing a particular device or machine within the Recorder&#8217;s office? By way of example, &#8216;can you photocopy that for me?&#8217; That&#8217;s an example of office parlance.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson: That particular terminology I&#8217;ve not witnessed.<\/p>\n<p>Marburger: What was the context that you&#8217;ve heard the term &#8216;photocopy&#8217; used in the Recorder&#8217;s office?<\/p>\n<p>Patterson: I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s been used. I didn&#8217;t say I remembered a specific instance.<\/p>\n<p>Marburger: All right. But you have a general understanding that people have used the term &#8216;photocopy&#8217; within the Recorder&#8217;s office in terms of something that could be done there; is that true?<\/p>\n<p>Patterson: I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s been used. I don&#8217;t remember a specific instance or how it was used. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s been used.<\/p>\n<p>Marburger: And is it fair to say that it&#8217;s been used in terms of being able to copy one piece of paper onto another piece of paper using a machine? No? 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