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Hi, volcano. What is your mother language? Rolex is not an English word, is it?
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Volcano, goodbuddy,
a lawyer is an it that stinks
() May God has mercy on their Godforsaken souls. ()
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Never heard that one before. Among my favorites, which I related to my children is the one that opens, "What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?"
I have to be careful, though. My youngest who is 11 wrote a letter to Yale a few years ago asking them to consider her for admission because she wants to take Sandra Day O'Connor's place on the bench - and they better get back to her soon because she's writing to Harvard too. I considered mailing this for a while, but I can't bear to part with it. Every time I pull it out I laugh myself to tears.
Anyway, possibly because of my continual nasty remarks about lawyers she's recently begun to question whether she should go into law, "because everyone hates them." (Well, daddy hates them and besides, mommy REALLY wants her to be a doctor.) So we had a long talk - several of them, actually. And I think I've convinced her that the highest priority in choosing a vocation is choosing something that one loves doing, regardless of what anyone else thinks about it. "Do what you like to do and do it as good as you can." So now she's agreed to keep an open mind.
"What's your job from now through high school?"
"To find out what I really like to do."
I'm only elated she has so far expressed no interest in psychology.
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Just one lawyer joke....just one, I promise.
What do you have when you've buried 100 lawyers up to their necks in sand?
not enough sand
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I'm only elated she has so far expressed no interest in psychology.
I take absolute umbridge at this. I am currently studying forensic psychology and have made personal assertions not to become another 'raving psychologist.
Previous to this i worked as an embalmer for 6 years, so i know exactly what it's like to do a job that everyone hates in position where people respond to you like you have two heads and yet never once have i considered becoming lawyer, even after studying commercial law for two years.
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"Just one lawyer joke....just one, I promise" I presume, Coffebean, that you meant I joke per poster... Question: What is a Lawyer?
Answer: The larval stage of a politician. ___________________________________________________ Sad  but true 
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A good friend of mine who was a personal injury lawyer remarked to me once, "90% of the law is nothing more than horse trading."
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It's odd this thing about lawyers in the U.S. In Québec, being a lawyer is an honourable profession to be in, and lawyers are respected like any other professional.
Why is it that they are so vilified in the U.S.?
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In reply to:
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Since those words were written by an Englishman around 400 years ago, the US attitude seems to be merely a continuation of that long-held Anglo-Saxon opinion.
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Why is it that they are so vilified in the U.S.?
Oh, they're vilified the world over. The others are just too polite to talk about it.
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