The above line in Henry VI Part II always gets a laugh, even from the affluent lawyers who make up an inevitable portion of the audience at performances of Shakespeare's lesser plays. Quite right too.
Q: Why don't man-eating sharks attack lawyers?
A: It's a matter of professional courtesy.
Q: What do you have if you have a lawyer buried up to his neck in sand?
A: Not enough sand.
Q: What do you call one hundred dead lawyers?
A: A start.
I've heard them all before and am quite happy to join in the laughter. The lot of the lawyer is often a lucrative one (not always and not to the unworthy extent of some other professions) and, done properly it is a job that can be spiritually rewarding - yes, I do mean that. Good lawyering is important labour.
But something has happened to cast us all in an unfavourable light and that is the advancement onto the world stage of J.D.Vance, Vice President of the United States. Vance is an odious bigot and a massively educated (Yale Law School no less) lawyer. This, I'm afraid, casts a shade over all of us and we must call it out. So here is a variation on yet another of those lawyer jokes.
Q: What is the difference between lab rats and J.D. Vance?
A: You can get attached to lab rats.
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