Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?" Doctor: "No." Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?" Doctor: "No." Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?" Doctor: "No." Lawyer: "So then, is it possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?" Doctor: "No." Lawyer: "How can you be sure, doctor?" Doctor: "Because his brain was on my desk in a jar." Lawyer: "But could the patient still have been alive, nevertheless?" Doctor: "It is possible, I suppose, that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."