Comments on: Lawyers, Bloody Lawyers

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:22:42 +0000

Hey, you DO know that I almost went to law school don’t you??? That would have meant that you would be somewhat related to one. Actually, David is SO relieved I didn’t get in, he just was merciless with the jokes about “bottom feeders” and “degenerates”, etc etc etc. In fact, he wondered if lawyers can be saved. Oh and thanks for the shout out for my blog. I really appreciate it!

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:09:53 +0000

Yeah, I’m always tempted to go with a system that requires lawyers to share some of their client’s jail time if they pleade innocent and are found guilty. When kids caught on tape beating someone, who admit that the tape shows them doing this, turn around and plead not guilty at the behest of their lawyer… well, it blows me mind.

By: Montane

Montane — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:49:57 +0000

Howdy. Being a physician, I am of course quite opposed to lawyers in general. One way to ‘fix’ the problem was put forth in one of my favorite shows (Justice League, now JLU). To paraphrase: “We had a problem with lawyers but fixed that ages ago.” “How?” “Simple. We gave them the same punishments as their clients. Soon, no lawyers.”

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:11:45 +0000

Heather :: You’ll have to tell me about the lawyers you used to work for some time.

Union71 :: Ah, I don’t think I ever saw King Henry VI. I’ll put it on my list. And yeah… I’ll echo my apologies to all my lawyer friends, too.

mahndisa :: Thanks! You always have such encouraging things to say. I’ll have to get a Blogger login so I can comment on your blog… last time it wouldn’t let me (but that’s easily remedied).

By: mahndisa

mahndisa — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:56:14 +0000

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I dig you on this Steve. In fact one of the things I wrote about today was how Ayaan Hirsi Ali is insane for supporting terrorists rights to free speech. And I had an attorney say that she would do the same. I like myself more than that lol! Thanks for the link with the policy for terms of use. I am terrified of getting sued, so I should add one myself. PS I placed you on the blogroll under my genius category. Have a nice day tomorrow:) And you know what else? I had never heard of Beef and Weck before I visited your site. You learn something different every day eh? Cheers.

By: Union71

Union71 — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 03:02:55 +0000

Of course Pixar wasn’t the first to articulate a point of view about lawyers. William Shakespeare in King Henry VI Part 2 - Act 4. Scene II wrote:

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

This, of course, was further immortalized by Don Henley with the line from the song ‘Get Over It’ as:

“Old Billy was right, let’s kill all the lawyers, let’s kill them tonight.”

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, I rest my case with sincere apologies to my lawyer friends.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:48:09 +0000

i used to work for lawyers. one of them wrote me a memo telling me to save and reuse a 37 cent stamp that had been put on a letter that ended up getting hand delievered to our office. I calculated what it cost him to write that memo at his 200$/hr billing rate, and it turns out he lost about 78 cents on the deal…