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Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Must Read for Lawyers
Message-ID: <207@gt-oscar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 21:01:39 EST
Article-I.D.: gt-oscar.207
Posted: Tue Mar  4 21:01:39 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Mar-86 06:19:06 EST
References: <1852@trwrba.UUCP>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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In article <1852@trwrba.UUCP>, ssimpson@trwrba.UUCP (Scott W. Simpson) writes:
> 
> 	A lawyer went fishing on a boat on the ocean one day with a bunch
> of friends.  As the fishing continued, the boat drifted into a school
> of man-eating sharks and the lawyer accidently fell overboard.  However,
> instead of immediately devouring the new morsel, the sharks began pushing
> the lawyer towards the boat.  As he reached the boat one of his shocked
> friends pulled him aboard and queried "That's the most unusual thing
> I have ever seen.  Why didn't the sharks eat you?".  The lawyer replied,
> "Sharks do not eat their own kind."

I always thought the best punchline for that joke was:
   The lawyer replied, "Professional courtesy."

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