Dan Glickman Tells A Joke
Kansas congressman turned agriculture secretary turned Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Dan Glickman started Tuesday's Pike & Fischer "Legal Risk Management in the Web 2.0 World" summit with a joke.
I'll spare you the details, but it involves a Jewish rabbi, a Hindu priest and a congressman driving cross-country together. Why? Who knows. They wind up getting stuck in a snowstorm, can't travel further, and approach a farmhouse looking for refuge.
The farmer's home is full but he says the trio can sleep in the barn with the farm animals. The weary travelers agree and about 15 minutes later the farmer is awakened by a knock at the door. It's the rabbi who explains that he cannot lie next to a pig. Next comes the Hindu priest who complains he cannot sleep with a cow.
Finally, there's a third knock at the door. It's the cow and the pig.
Wiley Rein partner Bruce Joseph, who moderated the panel that followed Glickman's talk, tried to one-up the Hollywood lobbyist. He told a joke about how the National Institutes of Health had decided to stop using white mice in clinical trials and instead use lawyers.
The agency gave three reasons, Joseph said. There are more lawyers in the Washington area than white mice; researchers were getting attached to the fuzzy, cute rodents and that wouldn’t happen with lawyers; and the final reason: "There are just some things a white mouse wouldn’t do."
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