"Order Denying Motion for Incomprehensibility"

While this may be of little interest to our non-lawyer readers, I assure you that those of us who practice law for a living find it hilarious.

A few weeks ago a bankruptcy judge in Florida entered a two-page order which included the following language:

On February 3, 2006, Defendant filed the above entitled motion. The court cannot determine the substance, if any, of the Defendant's legal argument, nor can the court even ascertain the relief that the Defendant is requesting. The Defendant's motion is accordingly denied for being incomprehensible.

And then, lest he be misunderstood, the judge quoted from Adam Sandler's movie, Billy Madison:

Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response was there anything that could even be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.

Smoking Gun was there.