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Subject:Re: Re. "Darn lawyers"? From:"Marvin W. Miller" <Marvin_Miller -at- SEC -dot- SEL -dot- SONY -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 3 Jan 1996 08:05:22 -0800
Here is my favorite:
What's the difference between a lawyer on a Harley and a vacuum cleaner? The
vacuum has the dirt bag on the inside.
> I'm a bit behind in my digests, but it's still interesting to note
> that no one has yet criticized the phrase "damn lawyers" which
> appeared in a previous posting. Is this because no one's had a
> good experience with a lawyer? Are we being unprofessinal in
> blanketly condemning a sister profession(i.e., fellow technical
> writers, albeit extremely bad ones)?
> Here's my vote: "What's the difference between lawyers and
> laboratory rats? No one objects to performing painful, humiliating
> and potentially lethal experiments on lawyers."
> Disclaimer: If I didn't commit it in print in one of our reports,
> it don't represent FERIC's opinion.
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Marvin W. Miller
Supervisor, Technical Communications Group
Sony Systems Engineering Center - San Jose, CA
Ph 408-955-4251
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Opinions expressed here probably differ from that of my
employer. If I ruffle your feathers, get mad at me - not Sony.
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