Got any Good Lawyer Jokes?

**RichardGraham** · 12-10-2005, 12:00 AM

Hi Folks,

Some people have far too much time on their hands.

Today I received a letter from Peter M. de Jonge, a registered patent attorney for Thorpe North and Western, a law firm representing Connor Sport Court International.

The letter states:

"The enclosed printouts from your website www.inlinehockeycentral.com/links/Rinks/ show use by your organization of the mark "SPORT COURT," in mulitple [sic] advertisements for sports facilities. We believe these uses are confusingly similar to the "SPORT COURT" mark, and they also dilute the value of the SPORT COURT mark. We have highlighted each reference in the attached materials for your convenience."

The attached "materials" show that 13 of Inline Hockey Central's 922 links that use the words "Sport Court" in their description. 13! That REALLY harms the Sport Court brand, don't ya think? All 13 links were submitted to IHC by the rinks themselves; I figure THEY know what sort of flooring they use. Some of these links have been on IHC for five years or more. I'm sure that their existence on IHC has caused Sport Court HUGE damage. What a joke.

The letter cc'd Ronald Yokubison, Connor Sport Court International, Inc.

Feel free to join me in e-mailing Sport Court at [email protected], or calling them at (800) 283-9522, to let them know that any mentions of Sport Court on Inline Hockey Central only give FREE ADVERTISING to Sport Court, and that their letter to someone who's supported Sport Court by multiple mentions of its athletic flooring in the last thirteen years, in Roller Hockey Magazine, InLine Hockey News, and on Inline Hockey Central, is both self-defeating and stupid. Why would anyone mention Sport Court on an inline hockey site if they were talking about Spider Court or Ice Court?!

As a result of this, I will be contacting the 13 rinks that made references to Sport Court on their submissions to IHC's Links section, asking them to delete those references, or I'll have to delete the entire submission from Links. Can't afford to be sued for promoting a company's products for free, can I?

Which reminds me of a couple of jokes...

Question: What do you have when you have eleven lawyers up to their necks in sand?

Answer: Not enough sand.

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Question: Why won't great white sharks eat lawyers?

Answer: Professional courtesy.

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Question: What do you call a lawyer with the I.Q. of 43?

Answer: "Your Honor."

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Sincerely,

Richard Graham
Editor
Inline Hockey Central

**calihockey** · 12-10-2005, 08:03 PM

Q. Whats the difference between a lawyer and a rat?

A. There are some things even rats won't do

I am suprised that the letter was even sent. Your links are actually advertisements for the rinks. The rinks have an implied agreement to be able to advertise they have sport court. Hell, if I paid the kind of money sport court costs, I'd want to be able to advertise it.Your links are not representative of your organization, just a free form of advertisement you give to help support the sport. Can we say well haha...I leave the accusations up to sport court. I think you should change it to court with a sport like nature just to make him spend a few nights of research to try to figure out if they have any claim on it. haha

**NoMoreNiceGuy** · 12-11-2005, 10:36 AM

What do you call 500 lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?

A good start!

**sactosaxons** · 12-12-2005, 03:46 AM

How can you tell if a lawyer is lying?

His lips are moving!

**sactosaxons** · 12-12-2005, 08:26 AM

What's the difference between a catfish and a lawyer?

One's a scum-sucking bottom-dweller, the other's a fish.

**Rebecca** · 12-12-2005, 11:49 AM

This is so ridiculous that I actually am sending people from our site here to read it.

Rich, if it was rinks who submitted this info, aren't THEY responsible for it. But still, this is utterly ridiculous.

ECRHA doesn't have our attorney contact every hockey site to have them remove references to ECRHA (the EAST coast hockey league) saying it confuses or dilutes our name (even though it could in a way). I would imagine there must be a suit going on or about to go on with the Sport Court name.

Rebecca

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**bowhunter1** · 12-12-2005, 01:08 PM

A guy is sitting at a bar, drunk, and obviously pissed. He says to the guy next to him "Dammit! Lawyers are *******s!" The guy replys "Excuse me? I take offense to that!!" The drunk says, "I'm sorry are you a lawyer?" "NO!" the other man replys "I'm an *censored*!!"

**RichardGraham** · 12-12-2005, 02:29 PM

Hi Folks,

Here is an e-mail letter I received today. At least someone's listening. [img]/wtimages/icons/wink.gif[/img]

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I am truly sorry for your frustration. I know that you would like to address the appropriate people with your complaint, and I would like to direct you to the sportcourt.com website and their 800 number. Your letter has reached Connor Hardwood Courts, and while we are Connor Sport Court International, we at Connor handle hardwood floors. Please utilize [email protected] and the Sport Court toll free number 800-421-8112. That way, you will be speaking to the proper people who will be better suited to discuss this issue.

Sincerely,

Lisa Vito

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Sincerely,

Richard Graham
Editor
Inline Hockey Central

**NoMoreNiceGuy** · 12-12-2005, 07:48 PM

Richard - just for a place to ask this.
You were going to write additional commentaries on the roller hockey meeting and explain such items as to why MLRH was not invited, etc.? I don't recall seeing this anywhere.

**RichardGraham** · 12-12-2005, 08:22 PM

Hi NoMo,

I wrote up a story about the meetings that said all I was going to say -- for now, and I was expecting to publish some comments from Bill Raue. That may still come -- I just need some more information from Bill.

Sincerely,

Richard Graham
Editor
Inline Hockey Central