More Interesting Anecdotes For Partygoers

By London Swaminathan

This is the second part of my collection of anecdotes from an old book of anecdotes. I have not written anything. I have only compiled them. It will be very useful for party goers. The beauty of the book is that the anecdotes are arranged topic wise. Students may use this book for essay writing. I will give more anecdotes in the third part. Anecdotes regarding doctors, lawyers, judges, Christian preachers, politicians, soldiers, and other people from various walks of life are covered in this part.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
• Release date: Jul 8, 2023
• ISBN: 6580553509885

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Table of Contents

Foreword

1. Doctors and Lawyers Anecdotes

2. What is the difference between the Doctor and Yama?

3. Will Power, Worrying, Appearance Anecdotes

4. Stupid Mistakes in Newspapers Anecdotes

5. Accuracy and Absent Mindedness Anecdotes

6. Fatness and Drinking Anecdotes

7. More Loans and Banks Anecdotes

8. Men are Scoundrels Anecdotes!

9. Poor Preacher, Baptist Fish, Fool’s Signature- More Interesting Anecdotes

10. Anecdotes about Christian Preachers

11. Sin and Sinners Anecdotes

12. Christian Conversion Anecdotes

13. Music Wonders: Mozart and Nietzsche

14. Interesting Anecdotes from the World of Music

15. A few Anecdotes about Tamil Savant U.Ve.Sa

16. More Evangelists and Missionaries Anecdotes

17. More Lawyers Anecdotes

18. Pickpocket & Witness Anecdotes

19. More Judges Anecdotes

20. More War and Armistice Anecdotes

21. Interesting Battle and Strategy Anecdotes

22. Wealth & Collection Anecdotes

23. More Banks Anecdotes

24. Real Estate and Fire insurance Anecdotes

25. Advertising Anecdotes

26. Equality & Socialism Anecdotes

27. Political Party Anecdotes

28. God and Commonwealth are on Different Sides - Politics Anecdotes

29. Card playing Anecdotes

30. Fishing Anecdotes

31. Noise of Music, Least Disagreeable

32. Say Hello, Rest will Follow

33. Amazing Memory of Toscanini! Conductors Anecdotes

34. Opera and Concerts Anecdotes

35. Muslim, Christian Superstition Anecdotes

36. Christian Miracle Anecdotes

37. Christian Fanatics Disappointed

38. Patriotic Americans: Soldiers and Sailors Anecdotes

39. American Civil War Anecdotes

40. Four More Shrewdness Anecdotes

41. Waiter Anecdotes

42. Statistics Anecdotes

43. First World War Anecdotes

44. More Dictator Anecdotes (Post No.3683)

45. Cabinet Ministers Anecdotes

46. Elections Anecdotes

47. Stubbornness and Vanity Anecdotes

48. Fatness Anecdotes

49. Temper Anecdotes

50. Parliament/American Congress Anecdotes

51. Tact Anecdotes! Coffee for the Cat!

52. More Eating Anecdotes

53. Charge like a Christian! Anecdotes about Lawyers’ Fees!

Foreword

This is the second part of my collection of anecdotes from an old book of anecdotes. I have not written anything. I have only compiled them. It will be very useful for party goers. The beauty of the book is that the anecdotes are arranged topic wise. Students may use this book for essay writing. I will give more anecdotes in the third part.

Anecdotes regarding doctors, lawyers, judges, Christian preachers, politicians, soldiers, and other people from various walks of life are covered in this part.

The old book had thousands of anecdotes; but I have selected what is relevant for our times. Some anecdotes lose their punch by the passage of time. I have omitted them.

All these anecdotes have already been posted in my blogs in the past ten years. I have given the dates of their first posting in every topic. Enjoy reading them and use them where you wanted to show your knowledge in various subjects. Most of these are humorous and harmless.

London Swaminathan

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May 2023

1. Doctors and Lawyers Anecdotes

Article No.1992;

Date 13th July 2015

Following anecdotes will show how the lawyers and doctors were projected in the western world 100 years ago. The anecdotes were taken from the Thesaurus of Anecdotes.

ANECDOTE 1

A lawyer and a doctor having a dispute about precedence, referred it to Diogenes, who gave it in favor of the lawyer in these terms:

Let the thief go before and the executioner follow.

Diogenes: Greek Philosopher 412 BCE to 323 BCE

ANECDOTE 2

A certain lawyer had his portrait done in his favorite attitude, standing with one hand in his pocket. His friends that it was an excellent picture of him. An old farmer remarked that the portrait would have looked much more like the lawyer if it had represented him with his hand in another man’s pocket instead of his own.

ANECDOTE 3

A stranger, arriving in a small New England town, approached the first native he saw and asked:

Have you a criminal lawyer in this town?

Well, replied the native cautiously, we think we have, but so far we can’t prove it on him.

ANECDOTE 4

A Dublin Attorney died in poverty and many barristers of the city subscribed to a fund for his funeral. Toler, later Lord Chief Justice of Or bury, was approached for a shilling. Only a shilling? said Toler. Only a shilling to bury an attorney? Here is guinea; go and bury 20 of them.

Old British Currency: One guinea= 21 shillings.

ANECDOTE 5

A man came to Newark (USA) one day and asked a landlord to direct him to a first rate lawyer

Well, said the landlord, if you have a good cause, go to Frelinghuysen; he is honest lawyer and never undertakes any other kind; but if you want a keen, sharp lawyer, who sticks at nothing, go to a lawyer So and so.

He watched the stranger and he went straight to So and so.

ANECDOTE 6

In Kansas (USA) court a witness, a tall awkward fellow, was called to testify. The counsel for the defense said to him, Now, sir, stand up and tell your story like a preacher.

No, sir, roared the judge. None of the; I want you to tell the truth.

ANECDOTE 7

The coroner’s jury was pretty thoroughly baffled as to the cause of death in a certain case. Unable to come to any conclusion, they at last officially termed the case, An act of God under very suspicious circumstances.

ANECDOTE 8

The community was shocked by a killing in its midst, doubly shocked because of the fact that the killer was one of the most popular and well-liked men in the town. Realizing that the evidence against him was conclusive, the man entered his plea of guilty. No means of saving him from the electric chair could be seen.

But the jurors, all friends of his, determined to save him in spite of his plea of guilty. When, at the conclusion of the case, they were asked to give their verdict, it was Not Guilty.

Now how in the world, said the judge, can you bring in such a verdict when the defendant pled guilty?

Well, your honor, said the foreman of the jury, the defendant is such a liar that we can’t believe him, even under oath.

ANECDOTE 9

Alexander Dumas, the French novelist, being the guest one day of Dr. Gistal, an eminent doctor of Marseilles, was asked by his host after dinner to enrich his album with one of his witty improvisations.

Certainly, replied Dumas with a smile, and drawing out his pencil he wrote under the eyes of the doctor, the following lines:

"Since Dr. Gistal came to our town,

To cure diseases casual and hereditary,

The hospital has been pulled down"

You flatterer!, exclaimed the doctor, mightily pleased.

But the poet went on

And we have made a larger cemetery.

ANECDOTE 10

The patient was lying on the stretcher waiting to be pushed into the operating room. I am so nervous, he remarked to a sympathetic young woman standing by.

This is my first operation.

So am I, said the young lady, my husband is the doctor and it is first too.

ANECDOTE 11

Stephen Leacock tells this story:

"Years ago when I first got my Ph.D. degree, I was inordinately proud of it and used to sign myself ‘Dr. Leacock’ in season and out. On a trip to