http://popgoestheculture.com/archives/124 Susie Watson, trend analyst and pop culture pundit teams up with cartoonist Barbara Luhring. Together they tear through the real and manufactured trends in pop culture today. Listen in! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:22:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://popgoestheculture.com/archives/124#comment-1765 Bernadette in Australia Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:09:44 +0000 http://popgoestheculture.com/?p=124#comment-1765 I used to work for our state government forensics lab (as a computer tech not a scientist). The documentation expert there would quite literally go nuts at some of the stuff that Grissom etc can get away with on TV and the movies with respect to handwriting. If you look at some of these TV shows it only takes a scribbled three-word note to send some criminal off to jail but in reality handwriting is a much less exact science than the fictional world would have you believe. Everyone would get to the office early on the morning after a CSI or Law & Order had depicted some unrealistic crime solution via handwriting had been on TV the night before 'cos this guy would be guaranteed to do a rant and rave for about an hour about how wrong they got it. It was great entertainment I used to work for our state government forensics lab (as a computer tech not a scientist). The documentation expert there would quite literally go nuts at some of the stuff that Grissom etc can get away with on TV and the movies with respect to handwriting. If you look at some of these TV shows it only takes a scribbled three-word note to send some criminal off to jail but in reality handwriting is a much less exact science than the fictional world would have you believe. Everyone would get to the office early on the morning after a CSI or Law & Order had depicted some unrealistic crime solution via handwriting had been on TV the night before ‘cos this guy would be guaranteed to do a rant and rave for about an hour about how wrong they got it. It was great entertainment

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