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24 August 2012, 07:09 AM
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The Lawyer’s Plea
I just ran across this today and I thought I'd share. It's by a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist (2x, I think) named Gene Weingarten, who writes for the Washington Post. This one won't win any prizes, but does have a relevant tie-in for this forum.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifest...hCT_story.html As he prefaced this column: "Another installment in my ongoing efforts to lose more readers by re-telling old jokes as bad poems." The Lawyer’s Plea, in the style of “The Village Blacksmith,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Under the spreading chestnut tree The city lawyer rants, His car a mashed-up wreck to see, And blood upon his pants. Up pulls a man in uniform As the lawyer stamps and chants. “My ride! My car! My Cadillac!” The lawyer’s plaint doth ooze — “My Prada suit’s ripped front to back, My Bruno Magli shoes!” All this the officer does note Part sadly, part amused. “You lawyers,” says the cop in scorn, “Are scoundrels pure and utter. It’s just for baubles that you mourn, As you rage and rail and mutter, Yet you don’t see your whole left arm Is lying in the gutter!” This shut the lawyer’s mouth at last He stopped and looked about The cop was right, he saw, aghast Blood from a stump did spout. So then he loosed a grieving wail — “MY ROLEX” he screamed out. |
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24 August 2012, 07:10 AM
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Always funny.
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24 August 2012, 07:19 AM
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24 August 2012, 07:33 AM
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Never gets old
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24 August 2012, 07:42 AM
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Yeah, yeah. We are great fodder for jokes till you need us.
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24 August 2012, 08:28 AM
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hehehehe
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24 August 2012, 01:09 PM
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24 August 2012, 01:24 PM
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An oldie but goodie indeed!
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24 August 2012, 01:44 PM
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24 August 2012, 02:11 PM
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I've never seen it in verse and it is certainly a fresh take on an old, but hilarious joke.
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26 August 2012, 06:09 PM
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Nice!
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27 August 2012, 11:54 AM
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Such a fitting description!
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