A lawyer named Charles Strange died,
and his friend asked the tombstone maker to inscribe
on his tombstone,
"Here lies Strange, an honest man, and a lawyer."
The inscriber insisted that such an inscription
would be confusing,
for passers by who would tend to think that
three men were buried under the stone.
However he suggested an alternative: He would
inscribe,
"Here lies a man who was both honest and a lawyer.
"That way, whenever anyone walked by the tombstone
and read it,
they would be certain to remark:
"That's Strange!"
A working P.I joke: I was sitting on a case in my office; sorry, no chair, just a case. I was reading through some old files when, suddenl, a tall blonde walked past my window. I could tell she was tall, because I was on the fourth floor...