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Old 04-20-2005, 01:09 PM
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This got sent to me by an old highschool history teacher of mine... awesome guy btw.

Anyways, enjoy!

These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are
things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and
now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm
while these exchanges were actually taking place.
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Q: Are you sexually active?
A: No, I just lie there.

Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July 15th.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.
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Q: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.

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Q: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
A: Yes.
Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
A: I forget.
Q: You forget? Can you give us an example of something that you've forgotten?
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Q: How old is your son, the one living with you?
A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
Q: How long has he lived with you?
A: Forty-five years.
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Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that morning?
A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
Q: And why did that upset you?
A: My name is Susan.
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Q: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo or the occult?
A: We both do.
Q: Voodoo?
A: We do.
Q: You do?
A: Yes, voodoo.
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Q: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
A: Did you actually pass the bar exam?

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Q: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?
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Q: Were you present when your picture was taken?
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Q: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
A: Yes.
Q: And what were you doing at that time?
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Q: She had three children, right?
A: Yes.
Q: How many were boys?
A: None.
Q: Were there any girls?
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Q: How was your first marriage terminated?
A: By death.
Q: And by whose death was it terminated?
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Q: Can you describe the individual?
A: He was about medium height and had a beard.
Q: Was this a male, or a female?

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Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a
deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.

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Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
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Q: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
A: Oral.

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Q: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
A: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
Q: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?
A: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy.

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Q: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?

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Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a
pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
A: No. >Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere!


Heh, the moral of story? Doctors can be snide SOB's when forced to testify.
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Old 04-20-2005, 01:20 PM
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Those are great! They probably do a lot of things half out of it and simply ask the same questions for every situation. I've only been to court once but I got myself into trouble responding to a comment of the sort. I was too heavily sedated to recall it though unfortunately. Needless to say though, the judge wasn't please I was being sarcastic and mocking him.
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Old 04-20-2005, 01:22 PM
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you can find a lot of that type of thing here. enjoy
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Old 04-20-2005, 01:22 PM
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Q: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
A: Oral.
That's the best
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Old 04-20-2005, 01:40 PM
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That was good laugh.
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Ok, this was real fun!!
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Old 04-20-2005, 02:09 PM
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Hehehe, I want that doctors; they're good.(Yes, I know they do autopsies)
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Old 04-20-2005, 02:40 PM
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ROFLMAO! Just the giggle I needed!

I also checked out the link Robnark posted... *snicker*

Excuse Letters

The routine is familiar: when a student is late or absent from school, a letter from the parents must be supplied for the absence to be excused. Sometimes such letters suggest that the parents were excused from school too many times in their own youth.

"My son is under a doctor's care and should not take P.E. today. Please execute him."

"Please excuse Lisa for being absent. She was sick, and I had her shot."

"Dear School: Please ekscuse John being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and also 33."

"Please excuse Gloria from Jim today. She is administrating."

"Please excuse Roland from P.E. for a few days. Yesterday he fell out of a tree and misplaced his hip."

"John has been absent because he had two teeth taken out of his face."

"Carlos was absent yesterday because he was playing football. He was hurt in the growing part."

"Megan could not come to school today because she has been bothered by very close veins."

"Chris will not be in school cus he has an acre in his side."

"Please excuse Ray Friday from school. He has very loose vowels."

"Please excuse Tommy for being absent yesterday. He had diarrhea, and his boots leak."

"Irving was absent yesterday because he missed his bust."

"Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father's fault."

"Please excuse Jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to get the Sunday paper off the porch, and when we found it Monday, we thought it was Sunday."

"Sally won't be in school a week from Friday. We have to attend her funeral."

"My daughter was absent yesterday because she was tired. She spent a weekend with the Marines."

"Please excuse Jason for being absent yesterday. He had a cold and could not breed well."

"Please excuse Mary for being absent yesterday. She was in bed with gramps."

"Gloria was absent yesterday as she was having a gangover."

"Please excuse Burma, she has been sick and under the doctor."

"Maryann was absent December 11-16, because she had a fever, sore throat, headache, and upset stomach. Her sister was also sick, fever, and sore throat, her brother had a low grade fever and ached all over. I wasn't the best either, sore throat and fever. There must be something going around, her father even got hot last night."


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Old 04-20-2005, 11:12 PM
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"Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father's fault."

This one got cracked out about me at my highschool grad. My biology teacher was HILARIOS

Actually, he is quite a funny man.
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Old 04-21-2005, 02:05 PM
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You may have seen some of these before they are from actual performance evaluations.

"Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom and has started to dig."
"His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity."
"I would not allow this employee to breed."
"This associate is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a definitely won't be."
"Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap."

These are actual lines from military performance appraisals or Officer Efficiency Reports.

Got into the gene pool when the lifeguard wasn't looking.
A room temperature IQ.
Got a full 6-pack, but lacks the plastic thingy to hold it all together.
A gross ignoramus -- 144 times worse than a regular ignoramus.
A photographic memory but with the lens cover glued on.
A prime candidate for natural deselection.
Bright as Alaska in December.
If you gave him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change.
It's hard to believe that he beat out 1,000,000 other sperm.
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge, he only gargled.
Wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.

Last, and certainly least, from resumes and cover letters printed in 7/21/97 issue of Fortune.

"I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and spreasheet progroms."
"Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year."
"Wholly responsible for two (2) failed financial institutions."
"Failed Bar exam with relatively high grades."
"It's best for employers that I not work with people."
"Let's meet, so you can 'ooh' and 'ahh' over my experience."
"I am loyal to my employer at all costs.....Please feel free to respond to my resume on my office voicemail."
"Finished eighth in my class of ten."
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Old 04-21-2005, 10:04 PM
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These are actual lines from military performance appraisals or Officer Efficiency Reports.

Got into the gene pool when the lifeguard wasn't looking.
A room temperature IQ.
Got a full 6-pack, but lacks the plastic thingy to hold it all together.
A gross ignoramus -- 144 times worse than a regular ignoramus.
A photographic memory but with the lens cover glued on.
A prime candidate for natural deselection.
Bright as Alaska in December.
If you gave him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change.
It's hard to believe that he beat out 1,000,000 other sperm.
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge, he only gargled.
Wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.
HAHA, I thought the army is supposed to be politically correct or something?

Lordy, some things can only be said, printed, and read in the army, anywhere else, you'd get charged with something or other.
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Old 04-22-2005, 11:27 AM
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I've never been in the military, but the military men I know are definitely not PC.
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Old 04-22-2005, 06:09 PM
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I've never been in the military, but the military men I know are definitely not PC.

Your loss. It's the only place I know where you can say any crude remark or joke that leaps into your head, and not draw startled, embarrassed and offended glances.

Not that I do that sort of thing
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Old 04-22-2005, 06:22 PM
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The restaurant industry is that way for sure. When I worked in restaurants we said and done things that would end some people up in jail.
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Old 04-22-2005, 11:06 PM
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Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a
pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere!
This is my favorite

The barristers could actually get their revenge if they could read Swedish! Every year the Swedish physicians' union journal release the most funny medical records of the year (anonymisised, of course) and it's usually hillarius.

This year, it was things like

"The patient previously had ears but these have fallen off"

"The stools have the same colour as the doors at Ward 19"

"Significant problems with the feet, cannot sing"

"The vomit and the husband disappeared in the afternoon"

"The patient was adviced to hang himself"

"Has small bloody teaspoons in the stools 15 times a day"

"The axillary gland and the patient were sent to Uppsala Hospital by taxi the same day"
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