On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 12:26 PM, A. Melon wrote: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 05:12:41 +1100, matthew X wrote: > >> "First we kill all the lawyers." Shakespeare.henry the something. > > Falling into camp "I resemble that remark," here's a bit of history on > one > of the worlds' most common epithets against the legal profession. While > this remark has been reduced to a slogan or jingle, placed in context, > the ...
Yes, it's an oversimplification. A full rewrite of the slogan would go like this: "First, we separate the lawyers into three categories: those who can pay compensation for their crimes and can enter other fields, those who should kill immediately for their crimes, and, last but not least, those who must be tortured for their crimes and then killed." My guess is that nearly all lawyers fall into the third category. The Earl was far too kind to them. --Tim May
