The lawyer as animal in American lawyer jokes
In the early 1980s a new joke cycle appeared in the USA, and has continued to flourish ever since. This is the lawyer joke cycle. The greatest anger and irritation in lawyer jokes is directed at the cost of lawsuits, the high income of lawyers, as well as their greed and stinginess, ignorance and s...
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2016-01-01
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Series: | The European Journal of Humour Research |
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Online Access: | https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/132 |