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hoosyourdaddyo OP t1_j6h1dyb wrote

Reply to comment by old-red-paint in A blond and a lawyer are flying to Cleveland by hoosyourdaddyo

His job is to screw people out of their money, screwing here has lost it’s novelty

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old-red-paint t1_j6j0cr4 wrote

Yeah, I get that. But the whole first half of the joke seemed like it was setting up something else like "haha blondes are dumb" AS WELL as "haha lawyers are evil". It only did one of these things, and in a weak, unrelated way.

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uncle_tyrone t1_j6j9ski wrote

I swear I’ve seen a joke that worked on the same mechanics, and in the end the blonde gets the 500 from the lawyer, but I have no idea how it went

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ALeaf0nTh3Wind t1_j6ld7vu wrote

She asks him a question and he gives up and pays the $500. Then he asks her what the answer was and she shrugs and gives him $5.

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uncle_tyrone t1_j6m5jol wrote

Beautiful. That was the punchline that the setup actually works with

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