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- From: palmer@cco.caltech.edu (David M. Palmer)
- Newsgroups: misc.education
- Subject: Re: Of Lawyers, Doctors and Profs...
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 22:31:01 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Message-ID: <1ejov5INN9me@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <lgl5mfINNakj@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Nov18.202238.13754@news.clarkson.edu> <1992Nov20.090140.18847@ra.msstate.edu> <11386@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
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- jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov20.090140.18847@ra.msstate.edu> wkl1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Wing-Keong Loke the consummate chronic prevaricator) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov18.202238.13754@news.clarkson.edu> rajat@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Rajat Kapoor) writes:
- >>>
- >>>Interestingly, all the three have an easy way out if they lose :
- >>>
- >>>Lawyers: " It was a weak case"
- >>>Doctors: " The patient would have died anyway "
- >>>Profs : " The student was hopeless"
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- >> I think the last case is cited quite frequently, no?
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- >Often in reference to students who become lawyers after failing to
- >become doctors.
- > ;-)
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- When a lawyer screws up, you don't hear about it because the victim stays
- in the can forever.
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- When a doctor screws up, the patient is quietly buried.
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- When a Prof screws up, the student POSTS to USENET with a LOT OF CAPITAL
- LETTERS.
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- --
- David Palmer palmer@alumni.caltech.edu
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