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Musing about whether a word which has independent meaning to someone, anyone, is actually a "word" reminds me of a joke about a lawyer who lost his Rolex.
A lawyer bought a new luxury vehicle and drove it proudly to work the next day.
As he opened the door to step out, a passing truck tore off his door. Someone called 911 and a police officer arrived moments later. The lawyer was still in a blind rage over the damage to his new vehicle.
The officer surveyed the scene quickly and then gasped "You lawyers are unbelievably materialistic. You've lost your arm and you're worried about your car."
The lawyer looked down in shock. "Where's my Rolex?"
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*sigh* i love lawyers, almost as much as politicians and those who sell plastic cheese graters and other ingenious devices door to door in the early hours of my weekends
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hehe! but what is Rolex? can you explain it for me. my mother language is not english!
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Hello, Volcano8060, welcome. Nice folk like you are a welcome addition to this forum. Good people like you, who "hehe" before they understand the punch line. I bet tED Remmington is delighted.  Welcome.____________ 
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Rolex is a brand of expensive, Swiss wrist watches.
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but what if I don't have a Swiss wrist? 
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Rolex is a brand of very expensive Swiss watches; here in the US many shallow but rich people wear Rolexes to show they have more money than brains.
Also here in the US it is considered chic to bash lawyers, without whom our society could not function. They are the ones who ensure that we live together as peaceably as we do by helping to formulate and enforce laws that benefit all of us. They are the ones who help us transfer real property from one person to another without having to worry about being taken because the seller already sold the same land the day before. They are the ones who defend us when we have been charged with a crime. They are the ones who help us get relief when we have been harmed by another.
True, lawyers tend to speak and write to one another in ways that we lay people can't readily understand, but most of us cannot understand what's going on when two theoretical mathematicians get together. Personally I don't care if they are talking in Farsi or tagalog as long as they get results and as long as they can communcate with me in English.
People here make jokes about lawyers who chase ambulances to find clients. While this doesn't really happen, lawyers do sometimes contact people who have been injured and offer to represent them. What I'd like to point out though is that it is the greed of the victim which then takes over. Lawyers don't manufacture lawsuits, they simply represent those people who do want to sue someone.
Here in the US we have what are called trial lawyers or personal injury lawyers. These people typically receive their pay as a percentage of what they recover for their clients. That means if the client loses so does the attorney. So what this means is that trial lawyers tend to turn down cases that are not winnable. This is actually beneficiary to our judicial system since it cuts down on the number of frivolous lawsuits clogging up our court system. On the other side of that coin you will find lawyers who will threaten a lawsuit in an attempt to get a settlement even when they know the case is very weak. This is contemptible, and is driven perhaps equally by the greed of the plaintiff and the attorney.
I for one happen to like lawyers. Heck, I sleep with mine!
TEd
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thank you, TEd. well said.
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The best lawyer jokes I've heard have always been told to me by lawyer friends ...
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A friend of mine, who is an experienced and well-known (and successful) trial lawyer in New Zealand, once said to me (after a few beers and before quite a few more): "Good lawyers make lousy politicians. Bad lawyers generally make good politicians, because they're dumb and therefore not so dangerous. If I see a lawyer who is any good starting to have political wet dreams I'm always tempted to loosen the wheel nuts on his car."
There are altogether too many lawyers in most western legislatures. Given what my friend said, the only way to distinguish the good lawyer-turned-politician from the bad is to find out how good or bad he or she was at the law.
Now, where's my wheel brace?
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