Saturday, January 03, 2004

 

Lawyer Jokes

I don't tell jokes about lawyers. Why is that? Lawyers don't think they're funny and no one else thinks they're jokes. Ba dum bum.

A lawyer in Memphis, Tenn., doesn't seem to mind lawyer jokes. In fact, he's written a book with more than 100 pages of courthouse anecdotes.

"I've just collected old stories for years," said Manuel Scarmoutsos, who once did a standup routine at a bench-bar conference to admittedly mixed reviews. "I'd write them down in a little book and then after I got serious about doing this I asked other lawyers for jokes and they contributed."

One of the antecdotes in his book: "Lawyer Warren Miller recalls a defense lawyer representing a man accused of cutting a woman with a knife during an argument. The lawyer asked her in Criminal Court: 'Ms. Jones, I understand you were cut in the fracas?' Her reply: 'No, sir. It was just above the fracas.' "

Gotta love a lawyer with a sense of humor.

posted by Anne 1/03/2004 06:23:00 AM