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Do we live under a dictatorship? Why do people get such a kick out of telling jokes about lawyers? Do you have a favorite lawyer joke?
Lawyers! Some think, you can=t live with them. But unfortunately, you can=t live without them. Why not? Well, I=m gonna tell ya= why not, right now. Because we live under a DICTATORSHIP OF LAWYERS! You read that right. We live under a dictatorship of lawyers. You know who first said that? Eduard Amvrosiyevich Shevardnadze, former foreign minister of the Soviet Union. Presently, he is the president of the country in which he was born, Georgia. Although now an independent republic, Georgia used to be a member-state of the Soviet Union. On July 2, 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev appointed Schevardnadze to replace the long time foreign minister, Andrei Gromyko. Upon the occasion of his first visit to the United States, Shevardnadze was being interviewed by a group of American reporters. One of them asked Mr. Zhervanadza about the problems of living under the so-called Adictatorship of the proletariat@ in the Soviet Union. The foreign minister threw another question back to the reporter, asking about the dictatorship under which the Americans lived. The reporter asked: AWhat dictatorship?@ Mr. Zhervanadza replied: AThe dictatorship of lawyers!@ Well, you can imagine the surprise on the faces and in the voices of the assembled reporters. Questions began to fly hot and heavy, in challenging tones of voice. But the minister, in a calm and controlled voice explained his challenge. AIn the United States,@ he said, Ayour lawyers run everything.@ Well, even David Letterman says you can=t go out for a Big Mac without a lawyer! If you think we=re not drowning in lawyers, try watching day-time television without gagging over their commercials. Why, indeed? Lawyers run for office almost as soon as the ink is dry on their bar card. They get elected all too often to serve in our legislatures, as our judges, city council members and they get hired to work in every kind and level of government office available. They make up the rules by which we live, they enforce the rules, in their own particular legal way, they start the law suits, try the law suits in court, settle the law suits in and out of court and wind up in the most powerful and influential positions in the land. When lawyers try lawsuits, do you think they are angry with one another? Almost never! They are friends. They lunch together. Their families socialize together. And they support each other in political campaigns, in job searches and preferential selection processes of all kinds. How does one get into the club. Go to law school, pass the bar exam and you=re in! At that time you become a member of one half of the royal family. The other half is made up of doctors. But that is another story. Well, the thing about being in the spot light all
the time is that you draw enemy fire. And the fire storm lawyers live in today comes in
the form of
OK. Enough for now. Do you have a favorite lawyer joke? I=ll bet you do. If so, send it in. We would like to see them. If it=s any good, we=ll post it on web site in the Bash the Barrister section under Jokesters. There might even be a contest for best lawyer joke. Put your evil thinking caps on and get those jokes coming in! Send your joke to jokes@nolawyers.com |
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