This is why I post in the lounge......

[whistle]

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Two beggars are sitting side by side on a street in Rome. One has a Cross in front of him. The other one the Star of David.

Many people go by and look at both beggars, but only put money into the hat of the beggar sitting behind the cross. A priest comes by, stops and watches throngs of people giving money to the beggar behind the cross, but none give to the beggar behind the Star of David.

Finally, the priest goes over to the beggar behind the Star of David and says: "My poor fellow, don't you understand? This is a Catholic country. People aren't going to give you money if you sit there with a 'Star of David' in front of you, especially when you're sitting beside a beggar who has a Cross. In fact, they would probably give to him just out of spite."

The beggar behind the 'Star of David' listened to the priest, turned to the other beggar with the Cross and said: "Moishe, look who's trying to teach the Goldstein brothers about marketing!"

....And if you are unable to see the humor in this, then you are a schmuck. So sue me.

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Lawsuit, Shmawsuit
Judge Alex Kozinski & Eugene Volokh,
103 Yale Law Journal 463 (1993)


Searching the MEGA file in LEXIS reveals that "chutzpah" (sometimes also spelled "chutzpa," "hutzpah," or "hutzpa") has appeared in 112 reported cases. Curiously, all but eleven of them have been filed since 1980. There are two possible explanations for this. One is that during the last thirteen years there has been a dramatic increase in the actual amount of chutzpah in the United States--or at least in the U.S. legal system. This explanation seems possible, but unlikely.


The more likely explanation is that Yiddish is quickly supplanting Latin as the spice in American legal argot. As recently as 1970, the Second Circuit not only felt the need to define "bagels"; it misdefined them, calling them "hard rolls shaped like doughnuts." All right-thinking people know good bagels are rather soft.{fn1} We've come a long way since then.

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[Tom Kitten]

1. that

is a funny joke! :D

[whistle]

2. I thought so ...

:hi:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Then how could you have missed this one?

A man goes to a lawyer and asks: "How much do you charge for legal advice?"
"A thousand dollars for three questions."
"Wow! Isn't that kind of expensive?"
"Yes, it is. What's your third question?"