… well, actually no … you don’t have to love them.

But I suppose you don’t have to hate them either. Though in my life I have done both.

Lord knows there are plenty of lawyer jokes around.

And you have to wonder why that might be.

You know, like how many lawyers does it take …

Q: How many lawyer jokes are there?
A: Only three. The rest are true stories.

Q: How many lawyers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Three, One to climb the ladder. One to shake it. And one to sue the ladder company.

Q: What are lawyers good for?
A: They make used car salesmen look good.

Q: What’s the difference between a jellyfish and a lawyer?
A: One’s a spineless, poisonous blob. The other is a form of sea life.

Q: Why did God invent lawyers?
A: So that real estate agents would have someone to look down on.

All due apologies to Real Estate Agents, Used Car Salesmen … and Spineless Jellyfish.

Then there is this:

During the mid-1980s  dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the      supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?  – P.J. O’Rourke

Or … what do you call a busload of lawyers that plunges to the bottom of the ocean … killing them all? A good start.

But I digress.

I don’t know who Freedom Barbie on Facebook is, but this entry was posted and reposted by several friends. It made me laugh every time I saw it.

Not that any Criminal Defense Attorneys have done anything to me so that I would enjoy this more than usual.

So here it is …

If you ever testify in court, you might wish you could have been as sharp as this policeman.

He was being cross-examined by a defense attorney during a felony trial.

The lawyer was trying to undermine the police officer’s credibility …

Q: ‘Officer — did you see my client fleeing the scene?’ …

A: ‘No sir. But I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender, running several blocks away.’

Q: ‘Officer, who provided this description?’

A: ‘The officer who responded to the scene.’

Q: ‘A fellow officer provided the description of this so-called offender. Do you trust your fellow officers?’

A: ‘Yes, sir. With my life.’

Q: ‘With your life? Let me ask you this then officer. Do you have a room where you change your clothes in preparation for your daily duties?’

A: ‘Yes sir, we do!’

Q: ‘And do you have a locker in the room?’

A: ‘Yes, sir, I do.’

Q: ‘And do you have a lock on your locker?’

A: ‘Yes, sir.’

Q: ‘Now, why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers with your life, you find it necessary to lock your locker in a room you share with these same officers?’

A: ‘You see, sir, we share the building with the court complex, and sometimes lawyers have been known to walk through that room.’

The courtroom EXPLODED with laughter, and a prompt recess was called.