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H.L. was indulging his smart alec side. But neither you nor he are really making the point you claim. Naturally most people in lawmaking are lawyers. That does not say anything good for the turkeys who would usurp power--i.e. most of those in Washington, regardless of profession, party or intelligence level--nor does it disparage in the slightest those who still honor their oaths of office.

Because all Medical Doctors are Physicians, does not mean that all practitioners of the ancient art of physicians are discredited, per se, because so many Doctors today seem more interested in the financial rewards than in their oaths; nor, even worse, because so many Doctors today are so afraid of the bad apples in the legal profession--of which I acknowledge there are some outrageous examples, whom I would no more wish to embrace than a Leper--that they over-treat many patients, with very serious financial consequences, as well as human tragedy.

The lawyer bit is a digression from the real issue. While lawyers jokes have been amusing since ancient times, they are not the real issue.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

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H.L. was indulging his smart alec side.

It was never easy to tell for sure.