It's still Monday, so here's another 'funny'

This is a funny story concerning judges so I should be careful because I have lifted the entire thing from Charles Moore's column in The Telegraph - yes, sorry, m'Lud, yet more larceny!  For the benefit of my overseas readers, a lady judge in the High Court was recently subjected to a rant from the dock by a particularly fat, obnoxious villain which ended with him calling her a cunt.  With perfect equanimity she told him that he was a bit of a cunt himself, before sentencing him.  Of course, Charles Moore, as befits a proper English gentleman and an ex-editor of The Spectator, no less, gently chides Her Ladyship for being out of order despite the provocation.  Even so, he retells this legal tale which, I suspect, is so old it has whiskers.  I paraphrase, as follows:

Some barristers were complaining about a particular Judge and all agreed that he was a cunt.  One of them, a lawyer known for his eccentricity accepted a bet from the others that he would dare to call the Judge just that - in court!  The day arrived and his comrades gathered in court to see how he would do it.  He simply stood and told the Judge he was a cunt.  The Judge, stunned and affronted, simply retorted, "I beg your pardon!"  The barrister confident he had won his bet simply replied, "There's no need to apologise."

Mr. Moore makes clear that he would not be prepared to swear to the truth of this tale over a bible!

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[JK]

And another

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[Whyaxye]

There is a respectable if very elderly sub-genre of courtroom obscenity jokes.

An old lag is about to be sent down for the umpteenth time, and is asked by the elderly judge whether he has something to say for himself.

"Fuck all!" mutters the con.

"What's that? Speak up! Did you say something?" asks the Judge.

Realising he had best not repeat it, the con opts for silence, staring down into the dock. The Judge, determined to be fair to the man, addresses the young copper who is guarding him in the dock.

"Constable, did the prisoner actually say something, or am I imagining things?"

Blushing slightly, the copper reluctantly replies:

"The prisoner...er...the prisoner said 'Fuck all', My Lord".

"Didn't he? I could have sworn I heard him say something!"

[JK]

Sister Wolf deserves to be told this tale David.

Er, you didn't, get it from her did you?