From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!dsd!atd!avsdS:nathan
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: A Lawyer joke
Article-I.D.: avsdS.284
Posted: Thu Jan 13 19:06:12 1983
Received: Thu Jan 20 05:03:44 1983

  
It seems that one day a lawyer died and went to heaven.  As he was waiting
at the pearly gates he introduced himself to another man who turned out 
to be a former pope.  After a short wait St. Peter himself showed up and
bade the two men to join him in his golden chariot.  St. Peter explained
that he would be taking them to where they would reside for the rest of
eternity.

The lawyer began to notice that they we gradually getting to a seedier and
seedier part of heaven.  The area got worse and worse, and the lawyer began
to worry that he would be spending eternity in a sleazly part of heaven.
Things got more and more depreasing until finally the chariot stopped in
a very bad part of heaven.  There were burned out cars on the sidewalks,
broken down tenements and the street was nearly rubble.  St. Peter 
indicated a particularly run down howuse and told the pope that this was
where he would spend eternity.  Without a word the pope left the chariot
and entered the house.  The lawyer was appalled that a former pope would
be made to stay in a house with only three walls and no roof.  He was also
worried, since if this was where they put a pope where were they going to
put him.

St. Peter started up the chariot again and off they went.  The lawyer was
heartened to see that things were gradually getting better.  The streets
were getting wider and the houses nicer.  As time passes they entered a
very nice part of heaven.  There were great mansions on estates that 
measured in the hundreds of acres.  The lawyer was beginning to think 
that there must have been a mistake.

Eventually, St. Peter turned the chariot into the driveway of a beautiful
estate with a golden and marble mansion, tennis courts, 5 swimming pools
and gardens beyond belief.  The lawyer was now sure that a mistake had 
been made.

After a half hour drive they reached the mansion.  St. Peter indicated that
this was where the lawyer would spend eternity.  The lawyer could hold his
curiosity and bewilderment no longer, so he said,"St. Peter, there must be
some mistake.  You've left a former pope in a hovel and me, a mere lawyer,
you have assigned this incredible mansion."

"No," said St. Peter," there's no mistake.  You see we get a lot of popes
up here, but you're the first lawyer we've ever had."