ILIGAN City ― ”If you have the facts, pound the facts. If you have the law, pound the law. If you don’t have the facts or the law, pound the table.”
Such quote, I heard from the ”Lincoln Lawyer” now showing on Netflix. Which is advice given to a father to a son who are both lawyers.
The son Mickey Haller does most of his studying on some difficult cases inside his Lincoln car. Instead of in his office because it is more convenient for him to do such. Maybe because in the office, you have to do other things before you can be in the study mode.
The father may know better than the son, hence the advice. To us, the audience, who are mere mortals don’t know what that means.
But no matter. Intrigue gets the better of us. So we continue watching, at least for me. And I remember another lawyer joke that says per my understanding that not all lawyers are created equal. Some are just like us. Whose grammar in English leaves much to be desired. Because, sometimes, not many times, we find this language very confusing. For instance, if we use the word ”did” in a sentence, the accompanying verb or action word should be present.
Yet, sometimes, those lawyers get absent. Hence, some grammar also becomes absent.
Did I say that one right? Oh, never mind. So there’s the story of a lawyer who was cross-examining somebody in the courtroom, asking: ”When you were raped, did you shout?”
And the judge said, ” Shout, counselor.” The lawyer repeated the question with the word “shouted” still in the question but with the volume increased. The judge then repeated what he said earlier. The lawyer increased the volume of his question each time until he was shouting at the top of his lungs!
The judge then announced a recess. All because of some wrong grammar.
I am not sure whether the lawyer doing the questioning was pounding the table. Ha ha ha, but this is no laughing matter. Especially for lawyers.
“We have plenty of information, but we don’t know what to do with them.” This is from Pope John Paul II. This is regarding today’s techno advances. This deluge of info in all aspects of our lives overwhelms us.
Perhaps the Pope himself doesn’t know himself? What about his “infallibility?”
“You’re nothing but a second-rate, trying-hard copycat!” This is from “Bituing Walang Ningning” starring the late Chery Gil and Sharon Cuneta. Which speaks of singing rivalry between the two. Although the two have ultimate goals in life.
”Amigo, to die for money is foolish.” And there was a reply from the one who is talked into with: ”But to die for a woman is more foolish.” This is a Western movie that though shown in theaters near you decades ago is also being shown recently on this platform called Netflix. I don’t know the plot but the quote remains.
”The anticipation of death is worse than death itself.” If I am not mistaken this is by Bruce Willis in ” Hard to Kill.” The actor, per reports, is suffering now from some kind of memory loss. So he is now in retirement.
Ok, those are some quotes worth remembering in these challenging times, For sometimes, they make us forget the heat wave that we are currently dealing with. Oh by the way there are other lawyer stories these days. like one woman lawyer saying about another lawyer that she is a ”bad shot to me because why did she laugh at the mention of the word, “bangag”?
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