Lawyer: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? Medical Examiner: No.

Lawyer: Did you check for blood pressure? M.E.: No. Lawyer: Did you check for breathing? M.E.

: No.

Lawyer: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? M.

E.: No. Lawyer: How can you be so sure, Doctor? M.E.: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.

Lawyer: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless? M.E.: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere