The other day we bemoaned the fact that pro football had become too wimpy. As a reader points out, it's much that way with lawyering as well. He attaches Exhibit A.
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and as been pointed out elsewhere- if he worked for Art Modell, he knows a real a**hole when he sees one.
A New York firm applied to Lincoln some years before he became President for information as to the financial standing of one of his neighbors. This was the answer:
"Yours of the 10th received. First of all, he has a wife and baby; together they ought to be worth $500,000 to any man. Secondly, he has an office in which there is a table worth $1.50 and three chairs worth, say, $1. Last of all, there is in one corner a large rat-hole, which will bear looking into.
"Billy," he said to his partner Herndon, "over sixteen years together, and we have not had a cross word during all that time, have we?"
"Not one."
"Don't take the sign down, Billy; let it swing, that our clients may understand that the election of a President makes no change in the firm of Lincoln & Herndon. If I live, I'm coming back, and we will go right on practicing law as if nothing had ever happened." Then the two went down the stairs and across the town to the railĀroad station, Lincoln never to return alive.
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and as been pointed out elsewhere- if he worked for Art Modell, he knows a real a**hole when he sees one.
Posted by call it like u see it | December 29, 2010 10:06 PM
Superb! Reminds me of this old one --
A New York firm applied to Lincoln some years before he became President for information as to the financial standing of one of his neighbors. This was the answer:
"Yours of the 10th received. First of all, he has a wife and baby; together they ought to be worth $500,000 to any man. Secondly, he has an office in which there is a table worth $1.50 and three chairs worth, say, $1. Last of all, there is in one corner a large rat-hole, which will bear looking into.
Respectfully,
A. Lincoln."
From Lincoln's Own Stories
http://www.coachwhipbooks.com/chapters/lincoln-stories/lincoln-lawyer.html
P.S.:
"Billy," he said to his partner Herndon, "over sixteen years together, and we have not had a cross word during all that time, have we?"
"Not one."
"Don't take the sign down, Billy; let it swing, that our clients may understand that the election of a President makes no change in the firm of Lincoln & Herndon. If I live, I'm coming back, and we will go right on practicing law as if nothing had ever happened." Then the two went down the stairs and across the town to the railĀroad station, Lincoln never to return alive.
Posted by Mojo | December 29, 2010 11:35 PM
Exhibit from 1974 proves what? I thought wimpy was a recent state of affairs.
I am soooo...????
Posted by Starbuck | December 30, 2010 8:32 AM