Amusing Moments

I think because reading cases can be a bit bland, contracts professors and the authors of casebooks like to throw in curveballs...just to make sure you're still paying attention.
In a footnote on p 277 of Making and Doing Deals: Contracts in Context second edition by Epstein, D.; Markell, B.; and Ponoroff, L.(and yes, I know its cited wrong but all the relevant information is there and I'm not bluebooking this sucker),
it says:

The comparison of consideratio to Elvis is in a footnote: "consideration is to contract law as Elvis is to rock and roll -- the King. Revisionists have questioned Elvis's greatness. They have wrestled with on disturbing issue: if Elvis is so great, how come he is buried in his own back yard -- like a hamster." James D. Gordon, III, A Dialogue About the Doctrine of Consideration, 75 CORNELL L. REV. 987 n.3 (1990)

See? Contract law isn't always about cows!

Also a couple weeks ago in Civil Procedure we had a darling case about NJ and Delaware.
Apparently New Jersey and Delaware are fighting like brats because NJ wants to let huge oil tankers up the Delaware river effectively closing the river off for a couple days at a time due to safety restrictions. As Delaware owns a stake in the river in a half-moon shape where the oil tanker dock would extend into, they want no part in it. So we're paying taxes so that the Supreme Court of the United States can tell these two states to "share like big boys and play nice."
We really are the most litigious country in the world.