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* One lawyer joke goes like this: After a lawyer's objection is overruled, he asks the judge, "Your Honor, what you do if I called you a senile old fool?" The judge replies that he would hold the lawyer in contempt. The lawyer then asks, "What if I only thought it?" The judge replies that, as long as he only thought it, there was nothing he could do. The lawyer nods, and says, "Alright, then. For the record, I ''think'' you are a senile old fool, Your Honor."
** There's an old baseball story about a player who actually pulled this on an umpire after the umpire made a call he didn't like. Predictably, the umpire threw him out of the game.
* During Prohibition, Vino Sano and Fruit Industries, Inc. sold compressed blocks of grapes bearing "warnings against dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, adding sugar, shaking daily and decanting after three weeks." [https://web.archive.org/web/20110203013843/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,742105,00.html The Feds stomped them anyway.] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140502225853/http://reignofterroir.com/2008/02/07/wine-brick-found/ (Article with photo.)]
** Similar warnings against beer making could be found on Pabst Blue Ribbon malt syrup.
* The 1870 volume ''[http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/on-the-records-a-well-preserved-roadmap-to-perdition/ The Gentleman's Directory]'' included this [[Blatant Lies|rationale]] for its extensive listing of [[New York City]] [[The Oldest Profession|brothels]]:
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