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From: fbji@sunybcs.UUCP (John Ioannidis)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: An actual (funny evey) joke (Lawyer joke, actually).
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 21:37:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 21:37:25 1985
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> 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?)

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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.

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