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Lawyer joke, the Glossary

Lawyer jokes, which pre-date Shakespeare's era, are commonly told by those outside the profession as an expression of contempt, scorn and derision.^[1]

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All Things Considered

All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR).

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 –) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran.

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Blonde joke

Blonde jokes are a joke cycle based on a stereotype of a dumb blonde woman. Lawyer joke and blonde joke are joke cycles.

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Car Talk refers to the work of Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, that includes a website, and a podcast of reruns that is currently hosted by Apple Podcasts, NPR Podcasts, and Sticher.

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Cashier's check

A cashier's check (or cashier's cheque, cashier's order, official check) is a check guaranteed by a bank, drawn on the bank's own funds and signed by a bank employee.

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Catherine O'Hara

Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian and American actress.

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Cheating

Cheating generally describes various actions designed to subvert rules in order to obtain unfair advantages.

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Colorectal surgery

Colorectal surgery is a field in medicine dealing with disorders of the rectum, anus, and colon.

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Contempt

In colloquial usage, contempt usually refers to either the act of despising, or having a general lack of respect for something.

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Deception

Deception is the act of convincing one or many recipients of untrue information.

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Defamation

Defamation is a communication that injures a third party's reputation and causes a legally redressable injury.

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Divorce

Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union.

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Electric chair

The electric chair is a specialized device used for capital punishment through electrocution.

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Ethnic joke

An ethnic joke is a remark aiming at humor relating to an ethnic, racial or cultural group, often referring to an ethnic stereotype of the group in question for its punchline.

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False documentation

False documentation is the process of creating documents which record fictitious events.

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Fee

A fee is the price one pays as remuneration for rights or services.

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Formal fallacy

In logic and philosophy, a formal fallacy, deductive fallacy, logical fallacy or non sequitur (it does not follow) is a pattern of reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in a standard logic system, for example propositional logic.

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Fraud

In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

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Gag name

A gag name is a pseudonym intended to be humorous through its similarity to both a real name and a term or phrase that is funny, strange, or vulgar.

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Georgia State University

Georgia State University (Georgia State, State, or GSU) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henry VI, Part 2

Henry VI, Part 2 (often written as 2 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England.

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Ivo of Kermartin

Ivo of Kermartin, TOSF (17 October 1253 – 19 May 1303), also known as Yvo, Yves, or Ives (and in Breton as Erwan, Iwan, Youenn or Eozenn, depending on the region, and known as Yves Hélory (also Helori or Heloury) in French), was a parish priest among the poor of Louannec, the only one of his station to be canonized in the Middle Ages.

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John Gay

John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club.

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Lawyer

A lawyer is a person who practices law. Lawyer joke and lawyer are lawyers.

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Let's kill all the lawyers

"Let's kill all the lawyers" is a line from William Shakespeare's ''Henry VI, Part 2'', Act IV, Scene 2.

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Lightbulb joke

A lightbulb joke is a joke cycle that asks how many people of a certain group are needed to change, replace, or screw in a light bulb. Lawyer joke and lightbulb joke are joke cycles.

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Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is an American public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.

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Money laundering

Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Open Library

Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published".

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Orphan

An orphan (from the orphanós) is a child whose parents have died, are unknown or have permanently abandoned them.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Parody

A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.

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Parrot

Parrots (Psittaciformes), also known as psittacines, are birds with a strong curved beak, upright stance, and clawed feet.

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Placeholder name

Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; or to deliberately expunge direct use of the name.

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Private Eye

Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961.

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Procrastination

Procrastination is the act of unnecessarily and voluntarily delaying or postponing something despite knowing that there could be negative consequences for doing so.

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Pun

A pun, also known as a paranomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

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Racism

Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers University, officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Self-deprecation

Self-deprecation is the act of reprimanding oneself by belittling, undervaluing, disparaging oneself, or being excessively modest.

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Social commentary is the act of using rhetorical means to provide commentary on social, cultural, political, or economic issues in a society.

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Soupy Sales

Milton Supman (January 8, 1926 – October 22, 2009), known professionally as Soupy Sales, was an American comedian, actor, radio-television personality, and jazz aficionado.

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The Beggar's Opera

The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.

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The Three Stooges

The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best remembered for their 190 short-subject films by Columbia Pictures.

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The Three Stooges (2012 film)

The Three Stooges (promoted as The Three Stooges: The Movie) is a 2012 American slapstick comedy film based on the 1934–59 film shorts starring the comedy trio of the same name.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Tom and Ray Magliozzi

Thomas Louis Magliozzi (June 28, 1937 – November 3, 2014) and his brother Raymond Francis Magliozzi (born March 30, 1949) were the co-hosts of NPR's weekly radio show Car Talk, where they were known as "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers".

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University of Colorado Boulder

The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

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When a man argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they are going to have the last word

On December 13, 1971, during oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court in the abortion rights case Roe v. Wade, Texas assistant attorney general Jay Floyd prefaced his remarks with a reference to his opposing counsel, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee: "It's an old joke, but when a man argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they are going to have the last word." The joke was met with silence in the courtroom and, according to abortion rights lawyer Margie Pitts Hames, visible resentment from Chief Justice Warren E.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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Wipf and Stock

Wipf and Stock is a publisher in Eugene, Oregon, publishing works in theology, biblical studies, history and philosophy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer_joke

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