At 01:22 PM 5/30/98 EDT, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>I would bet if you were to change the fellow's title from consultant to
lawyer
>and you were to tell this joke at a bar convention, very few people (perhaps
>no one) would come to Jerry's conclusion that the guy was a very hard worker.
>Rather, I strongly suspect that most of them would guffaw at the joke, wink
>and nudge each other in the ribs.

Actually, the original version (which I heard years ago) was about a lawyer.

The funny thing about lawyer jokes is:
        1.  Lawyers don't think they're funny, and
        2.  Non-lawyers don't know they're jokes.


>Some time I'll have to tell you what I think about lawyers.

I'll pass, thanks...

--
Robert S. Apgood, J.D.
Law Offices of Siderius Lonergan