Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Kill all the lawyers

From: -------------- Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 8:27 PM Subject: Fw: LAWYER JOKE A guy in a bar stood up and shouted, "Lawyers are assholes!" A guy at the other end of the bar shouted back "I resent that." The first guy asked "Are you a lawyer?" The second guy responded "No, I'm an asshole."

G-------- to ----- More options 7:51 pm (1 hour ago) It is indeed one of the best, thank you.

I think there is an endless supply of lawyer jokes, some I recall are given here.

Why does New York City have the highest concentration of attorneys per square mile and New Jersey has the highest concentration of toxic waste dumps? New Jersey got first choice.

Deep down we've found lawyers aren't so bad, about a twenty five foot hole we've found to be the best.

The truck driver who lived in a small town asked one of the local lawyers clear up a small matter for him. The lawyer phoned the trucker one day on the road, told him that the problem had been resolved favorably and asked him to come by the office at his next opportunity and pay the bill. The trucker came off the road one day, stopped by the lawyer's office, paid his bill of one hundred dollars with a crisp new bill, thanked the lawyer and left. The lawyer noticed later in the day that he had in fact received two one hundred dollar bills tightly stuck together. Then of course the lawyer felt he was in a serious moral dilema, do you know what the dilema was? Of course you do, whether or not to tell his partner about the extra revenue.

It's interesting that those who preform some of the most necessary functions in times of crisis, lawyers and doctors, are the butt of such endless ridicule.

Ever mindful of criticism the lawyers have taken to trying to turn the tables a bit:

"The First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers" Shakespeare's Tribute to Trial Lawyers

The web is just littered with variants of the text found in the link above. It must be commerical boilerplate that's personalized for each lawyer's site.

And finally, a more understandable view:

it's a lawyer joke Seth Finkelstein, sethf@mit.edu

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