What is the difference between a mudfish and a lawyer?
One goes down the depths of the murkiest and blackest dirt looking for something to feed on, while the other is a fish.
---A common lawyer joke---
Once upon a time, there were three pigs who inherited from their deceased mother a pigpen.
When there were still young, they could all fit in the pigpen comfortably. Now that they were adults, they could not stay all together inside without bumping one another, thereby causing annoyance, and worse, constant feuds between themselves. Until one day when they could not bear each other’s presence in the pigpen, each pig decided to fight it out in court as to who had the better right among them to get the property. Thus, each hired a lawyer and filed one case against the other. At the inception of the cases, all the pigs were able to get restraining orders against each other; this prevented each one of them from going to the pigpen until the cases were eventually decided. As a result, each pig was forced to look for a place to rent...
[Note: Read the complete story in the book "You Filibini?" Stories and Other Writings by Amador F. Brioso, Jr., published May 2010]
