He took the car Carlson was charged with stealing a Mercedes Benz, and after a long trial, the jury aquitted him. Later that day, Carlson came back to the judge who had presided at the hearing. “Your honor,” he said, “I wanna get out a warrent for that dirty lawyer of mine.” “Why?” asked the judge. “He won your aquittal. What do you want to have him arrested for?” “Well, your honor,” replied Carlson. “I didn’t have the money to pay his fee, so he went and took the car I stole.” You must be really old A lawyer died and arrived at the pearly gates. To his dismay, there were thousands of people ahead of him in line to see St. Peter. To his surprise, St. Peter left his desk at the gate and came down the long line to where the laywer was, and greeted him warmly. Then St. Peter and one of his assistants took the lawyer by the hands and guided him up to the front of the line, and into a comfortable chair by his desk. The lawyer said, “I don’t mind all this attention, but what makes me so special?” St. Peter replied, “Well, I’ve added up all the hours for which you billed your clients, and by my calculation you must be about 193 years old!” |