A lawyer named
Strange died, and his friend asked the tombstone maker to inscribe on his
tombstone, "Here lies Strange, an honest man, and a lawyer."
The inscriber insisted that such an inscription would be confusing, for
passersby would tend to think that three men were buried under the stone.
However he suggested an alternative: He would inscribe, "Here lies a man who was
both honest and a lawyer.
"That way, whenever anyone walked by the tombstone and read it, they would be
certain to remark: "That's Strange!"
A
ROMANTIC AT HEART
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."
HOW LONG HAVE I GOT LEFT?
A man woke up in a
hospital bed and called for his doctor. He asked "Give it to me straight. How
long have I got?" The physician replied that he doubted that his patient would
survive the night. The man then said "Call for my lawyer."
When the lawyer arrived, the man asked for his physician to stand on one side of
the bed, while the lawyer stood on the other. The man then laid back and closed
his eyes. When he remained silent for several minutes, the physician asked what
he had in mind.
The man replied "Jesus died with a thief on either side, and I thought I'd check
out the same way."
THE SNAKE AND THE RABBIT
A snake and a rabbit
were racing along a pair of intersecting forest pathways one day, when they
collided at the point where the pathways meet. They immediately began to argue
with one another as to who was at fault for the mishap.
When the snake remarked that he had been blind since birth, and thus should be
given additional leeway, the rabbit said that he, too, had been blind since
birth. The two animals then forgot about the collision and began commiserating
concerning the problems of being blind.
The snake said that his greatest regret was the loss of his identity. He had
never been able to see his reflection in water, and for that reason did not know
exactly what he looked like, or even what he was.
The rabbit declared that he had the same problem. Seeing a way that they could
help each other, the rabbit proposed that one feel the other from head to toe,
and then try to describe what the other animal was.
The snake agreed, and started by winding himself around the rabbit. After a few
moments, he announced, "You've got very soft, fuzzy fur, long ears, big rear
feet, and a little fuzzy ball for a tail. I think that you must be a bunny
rabbit!"
The rabbit was much relieved to find his identity, and proceeded to return the
favor to the snake. After feeling about the snake's body for a few minutes, he
asserted, "Well, you're scaly, you're slimy, you've got beady little eyes, you
squirm and slither all the time, and you've got a forked tongue. I think you're
a lawyer!"
A
WEAKER ARGUMENT
So there was this
engineer who was tragically hit by a bus and killed instantly. He had lead a
good life, but for some reason he found himself, rather than at the pearly
gates, in the Other Place. Not one to complain, he shrugged and submitted
himself to the tortures and other indignities common in Hell.
Soon after he arrived, there was a problem with one of the many furnaces--the
engineer was happy to help out (he volunteered--wanted the challenge) and before
long it was up and running again. This brought him to the attention of one of
the senior demons that then had him working all over Hell fixing the torture
devices, working out the kinks in the plumbing system, installing digital
controls to the flame throwers . . . you name it.
Pretty soon word reached Satan that Hell had a great new addition to the team.
The engineer then got taken under the Boss' wing (so to speak) as he planned and
oversaw the creation of a giant new computer network. Pretty soon, word of all
these improvements reached Heaven.
God was pretty upset about all this, and he had St. Peter look into the details
(it had been a computer error--the engineer had been destined for one of the mid
levels of Heaven). So God called Satan up and told him he wanted the engineer
back.
"Nothing doing," said Satan, "You sent him down here, and we're keeping him!"
"What?" sputtered God, "You get him up here right now! That's a direct Order!"
"Listen pal, I don't take orders from you any more. Remember that 'rule in hell'
agreement?"
God was beside himself. "If you don't send that engineer up here right now, I'll
. . . I'll sue you!"
"Oh, sure!" Satan shot back gleefully. "Where are you going to get a lawyer?"