Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!fbji From: fbji@sunybcs.UUCP (John Ioannidis) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: An actual (funny evey) joke (Lawyer joke, actually). Message-ID: <2075@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 21:37:25 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.2075 Posted: Tue Aug 13 21:37:25 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 21:59:12 EDT References: <54@tekchips.UUCP> Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 30 > A lawyer who works in Texas receives news of an out of town > emergency which requires him to fly out of the state for a short > period of time. He doesn't even have time to pack, so he calls > home to tell his wife he is going. The maid answers the phone > but is hesitant to put his wife on the phone. After quite a bit > of cajoling, she admits that his wife is upstairs in bed with > the mailman! Now the man is furious, and would rush right home, > but of course there is this emergency to take care of, so he > tells the maid to go get the gun from his desk drawer, and kill > both his wife and the mailman. She protests, but he explains > that under Texas law it is legal to kill your adulterous wife > and her lover. Using his silver tongue, he finally convinces > her to do it. She puts down the phone, and the lawyer can hear > the sound of two gun shots, the screams, some loud bumps, and, > finally, some splashes. The maid comes back on the phone. The > lawyer asks ``did you kill them?''. ``Yes'', she replies. > ``What did you do with the bodies?'' ``I threw them in the > pool.'' ... pause ... ``Pool? ... Say, is this 555-8234?'' > > As told to me by Tom Clement > > (there are two interpretations of this joke, can you find them both?) *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Yes; the other version involves a businessman, the cook finding the man's wife with the son of the gardner, killing them with a carving knife and throwing the pieces in the swimming pool. The phone number is also different. (No .signature file. Just a .{piece of sandpaper} .)