A big city London lawyer went duck
hunting in rural Scotland. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into
a farmer's field on the other side of a fence.
As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his
tractor and asked the lawyer what he was doing.
The lawyer responded, "I shot a duck and it fell into this field, and
now I'm going to retrieve it."
The old farmer replied. "This is my property, and your not coming over
here."
The indignant lawyer replied. "I'm one of the best trial lawyers in the
UK, and if you don't let me get that duck, I'll sue you and take
everything that you own.
The old farmer smiled and said, "Apparently, you don't know how we do
things in Scotland. We settle small disagreements like this, with the
Scottish Three Kick Rule."
The lawyer asked, "What is the Scottish Three Kick Rule?"
The farmer replied, "Well, first I kick you three times and then you
kick me three times, and so on, back and forth until someone gives up."
The attorney quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided that
he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the local
custom.
The old farmer slowly gets down from the tractor and walked up to the
city fella. His first kick planted the toe of his heavy work boot into
the lawyer's groin, which dropped him to his knees.
His second kick nearly ripped the nose off his face.
The lawyer was flat on his belly, when the farmer's third kick to a
kidney nearly causing him to give up, but didn't.
The lawyer summoned every bit of his will and managed to get to his feet
and said, "Okay, you old tosser, now it's my turn."
The old farmer smiled and said,
"Naw, I give up, You can keep the duck!"
A lawyer trying to get tickets to a
Broadway show, finally settled for a couple of seats a year in advance.
When the exciting night arrived and he sat down in his seat, a woman in
front of the lawyer noticed the empty seat next to him and asked why
such a valuable commodity was unused. The lawyer replied that his wife
couldn't make it. The woman asked him if he didn't have relatives or
friends who could have used the seat. He replied, "Oh, they're all at
the funeral."
Two small boys, not yet old enough to be
in school, were overheard talking at the zoo one day. "My name is Billy.
What's yours?" asked the first boy. "Tommy," replied the second. "My
Daddy's an accountant. What does your Daddy do for a living?" asked
Billy. Tommy replied, "My Daddy's a lawyer." "Honest?" asked Billy. "No,
just the regular kind", replied Tommy.
A guy walks into a post office one day to
see a middle-aged, balding man standing at the counter methodically
placing "Love" stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over
them. He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying scent all
over them.
His curiosity getting the better of him, he goes up to the balding man
and asks him what he is doing. The man says "I'm sending out 1,000
Valentine cards signed, 'Guess who?'" "But why?" asks the man. "I'm a
divorce lawyer," the man replies.
A man was chosen for jury duty who really
wanted to be dismissed from serving. He tried every excuse he could
think of but none of them worked. On the day of the trial, he decided to
give it one more shot. As the trial was about to begin, he asked if he
could approach the bench.
"Your Honor," he said, "I must be excused from this trial because I am
prejudiced against the defendant. I took one look at the man in the blue
suit with those beady eyes and that dishonest face and I said 'He's a
crook! He's guilty!' So, your Honor, I cannot possibly stay on this
jury!"
With a tired annoyance the judge replied, "Get back in the jury box, you
fool. That man is the defendant's lawyer."
For three years, the young attorney had
been taking his brief vacations at this country inn. The last time he'd
finally managed an affair with the innkeeper's daughter. Looking forward
to an exciting few days, he dragged his suitcase up the stairs of the
inn, then stopped short.
There sat his lover with an infant on her lap! "Helen, why didn't you
write when you learned you were pregnant?" he cried. "I would have
rushed up here, we could have gotten married, and the baby would have my
name!"
"Well," she said, "when my folks found out about my condition, we sat up
all night talkin' and talkin' and decided it would be better to have a
bastard in the family than a lawyer."
A lawyer defending a man accused of
burglary tried this creative defense: "My client merely inserted his arm
into the window and removed a few trifling articles. His arm is not
himself, and I fail to see how you can punish the whole individual for
an offence committed by his limb."
"Well put," the judge replied. "Using your logic, I sentence the
defendant's arm to one year's imprisonment. He can accompany it or not,
as he chooses." The defendant smiled. With his lawyer's assistance he
detached his artificial limb, laid it on the bench, and walked out.
A doctor vacationing on the Riviera met
an old lawyer friend and asked him what he was doing there. The lawyer
replied, "Remember that lousy real estate I bought? Well, it caught
fire, so here I am with the fire insurance proceeds. What are you doing
here?" The doctor replied, "Remember that lousy real estate I had in
Mississippi? Well, the river overflowed, and here I am with the flood
insurance proceeds." The lawyer looked puzzled. "Gee," he asked, "how
did you start the flood?"
One day, there was this lawyer who had
just bought a new car, and he was eager to show it off to his
colleagues, when all of a sudden an eighteen wheeler came out of nowhere
and took of the driver's side door with him standing right there. "NOOO!"
he screamed, because he knew that no matter how good a mechanic tried to
fix it, it never would be the same. Finally, a cop came by, and the
lawyer ran up to him yelling. "MY JAGUAR DOOR WAS JUST RUINED BY SOME
FOOLISH DRIVER!!!" he exclaimed. "Your a lawyer aren't you?" asked the
policeman. "Yes, I am, but what does this have to do with my car?!?!"
the lawyer asked. "HA! Your lawyers are always so materialistic. All you
care about is your possessions. I bet you didn't even notice that your
left arm is missing did you?" the cop said. The lawyer looked down at
his side and exclaimed "MY ROLEX!"
A guy phones a law firm and says, "I want
to speak to my lawyer." The receptionist says, "I'm sorry, but your
lawyer died last week." The next day the same guy phones the law firm
and says, "I want to speak to my lawyer." Once again the receptionist
replies, "I'm sorry, but your lawyer died last week."
The next day the guy makes his regular call to the law firm and say, "I
want to speak to my lawyer." "Excuse me sir," the receptionist says,
"but this is third time I've had to tell you that your lawyer died last
week. Why do you keep calling?" The guy replies, "Because I love hearing
it!"
Two attorneys were walking out of a bar
and a beautiful young lady walks by. One attorney turns to his associate
and comments "Boy, I would like to fuck her! The other attorney thinks
for a second and said "Out of what"?
An engineer dies and reports to the
pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an
engineer -- you're in the wrong place." So the engineer reports to the
gates of hell and is admitted. Pretty soon, the engineer gets
dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and, as is the wont for
engineers, starts designing and building improvements. After a while,
they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the
engineer is a pretty popular guy. One day God calls Satan up on the
telephone and asks, "So how's it going down there in hell?"
Satan replies, "Hey things are going great. We've got air conditioning,
flushing toilets and working escalators, and there's no telling what an
engineer is going to come up with next." God replies, "What You've got
an engineer? That's a mistake -- he should never have gotten down there;
send him up here." Satan says, "No way. I like having an engineer on the
staff, and I'm keeping him." God says, "Send him back up here or I'll
sue." Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah right. And just where
are you going to get a lawyer?"
A doctor and a lawyer were talking at a
party. Their conversation was constantly interrupted by people
describing their ailments and asking the doctor for free medical advice.
After an hour of this, the exasperated doctor asked the lawyer, "What do
you do to stop people from asking you for legal advice when you're out
of the office?"
"I give it to them," replied the lawyer, "and then I send them a bill."
The doctor was shocked, but agreed to give it a try. The next day, still
feeling slightly guilty, the doctor prepared the bills. When he went to
place them in his mailbox, he found a bill from the lawyer.
A lawyer is standing in a long line at
the box office. Suddenly, he feels a pair of hands kneading his
shoulders, back, and neck. The lawyer turns around. "What the hell do
you think you're doing?" "I'm a chiropractor, and I'm just keeping in
practice while I'm waiting in line." "Well, I'm a lawyer, but you don't
see me screwing the guy in front of me, do you?"
A man is at his lawyer's funeral and and
is surprised by the turnout for this one man. He turns to the people
around him. "Why are you all at this man's funeral?" A man turns towards
him and says, "We're all clients." "And you ALL came to pay your
respects? How touching." "No, we came to make sure he was dead."
An elderly patient needed a heart
transplant and discussed his options with his doctor. The doctor said,
"We have three possible donors. The first donor is a young, healthy
athlete who died in an automobile accident. The second donor is a
middle-aged businessman who never drank or smoked and who died flying
his private jet. And, the third donor is an
attorney who died after practicing law for 30 years. Which do you want?"
"I'll take the lawyer's heart," said the patient. After a successful
transplant, the doctor asked the patient why he had chosen the lawyer's
heart. "It was easy," explained the patient, "I wanted a heart that
hadn't been used."
A local United Way office realized that
the organization had never received a donation from the town's most
successful lawyer. The person in charge of contributions called him to
persuade him to contribute.
"Our research shows that out of a yearly income of at least $700,000,
you give not a penny to charity. Wouldn't you like to give back to the
community in some way?"
The lawyer mulled this over for a moment and replied, "First, did your
research also show that my mother is dying after a long illness, and has
medical bills that are several times her annual income?"
Embarrassed, the United Way rep mumbled, "Um ... no."
The lawyer interrupts, "or that my brother, a disabled veteran, is blind
and confined to a wheelchair?"
The stricken United Way rep began to stammer out an apology, but was
interrupted again.
"or that my sister's husband died in a traffic accident," the lawyer's
voice rising in indignation, "leaving her penniless with three
children?!"
The humiliated United Way rep, completely beaten, said simply, "I had no
idea..."
On a roll, the lawyer cut him off once again, "So if I don't give any
money to them, why should I give any to you?"
Three men, a doctor, an accountant and a lawyer are dead and they appear
in front of St Peter. St Peter tells them that they have to answer one
question in order to get to Heaven. He looks at the doctor and asks,
"There was a movie that was made about a ship that sank after hitting an
iceberg, what was its name?" The doctor answers, "The Titanic" and he is
sent through. He then looks at the accountant and say, "How many people
died in that ship?" Fortunately the doctor had just watched the movie
and he answers, "1 500!". St Peter sends him through and then finally
turns to the lawyer and commands, in a very heavy voice, "Name them!".
In heaven, the angels asked god where he
would spend his next holiday.
God said: At least not on earth. Last time I went there, I left a girl
pregnant and those people haven't stopped talking about it since!
The scene is the darkest jungle in Africa. Two tigers are stalking
through the jungle when the one in the rear suddenly reaches out with
his tongue and licks the butt of the one in front. The lead tiger turns
and says, "Hey, cut it out, alright." The other tiger says sorry and
they continue on their way.
After about five minutes the rear tiger suddenly repeats his action. The
front tiger turns angrily and says," I said don't do that again!" The
rear tiger says "sorry" again and they continue.
After about another five minutes, the rear tiger repeats his action. The
front tiger turns and says, "What is it with you, anyway? I said to
stop." The rear tiger says, "I really am sorry but I just ate a lawyer
and I'm just trying to get the taste out of my mouth."
A man died and was taken to his place of eternal torment by the devil.
As he passed raging fire pits and shrieking sinners, he saw a man he
recognized as a lawyer snuggling up to a beautiful woman.
'That's unfair!' he cried. 'I have to roast for all eternity, and that
lawyer gets to spend it with a beautiful woman.'
'Shut up,' barked the devil, jabbing the man with his pitchfork.
'Who are you to question that woman's punishment?'
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