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To: marcos who wrote (39217)	6/5/1999 3:13:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The print your lawyer friend has on his wall of the well fed lawyer milking the peasants' cow is a version of what I was thinking when I said this: <<I suspect that no woman would embroider Christopher's broad/dog joke on a pillow, but that many lawyers would embroider these quotes on a pillow and toss them on the couch for a lark.>> (https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=9978720)

To: marcos who wrote (39217)	6/5/1999 3:15:00 PM
From: jpmac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Aye, joking about ourselves and each other is good for us and fun, taboot. But there are often statements disguised as jokes that are not that at all. "Kill 'em all" is neither a desireable solution (imo) nor funny. And it is personal. I've read and heard jokes to the effect. That's crossing from humor and satire that is used to make a point to something unpleasant and hateful. "Kill 'em all" was a pet phrase of a one of the Littleton boys who then tried to do just that. I think it will be a long time before people around there see humor in those words. Hopefully they never will.

To: marcos who wrote (39217)	6/5/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Let's tell some "good lawyer" stories. I remember sitting quietly as a kid in my grandfather's law office in a small Southern town while be cajoled and bullied a big family into settling an estate instead of suing each other (which he said would result in Col. Thurmond (Strom's daddy) and him getting all of the pitiful little farm in fees. He worked an afternoon and billed them $5 for settling the estate without a suit. A lawyer whom I have worked with settled a wrongful discharge with a phonecall to the New York corporate boss, got the worker his job back with backpay, and billed the client $80 for the 20 minutes it took him to settle.