[SamuraiScot]

There are two punchlines to that joke.

2) And we kept having problems with the technicians getting emotionally attached to the rats.

Thanks for bringing that up. I just didn't want to overload people. And since jokes always go in threes, there's one more—I think it's first in the order of delivery:

There are so many lawyers, we'll never run out of them.

[Mamzelle]

That's right! I'd forgotten, it was "three reasons to use lawyers rather than lab rats for experiments."

I think over the years we have had several threads on Favorite Lawyer jokes.

All time fave: A lawyer and his only child took a hike in the woods, only to encounter a mountain lion. The lawyer started to run, and his only child said to him, "Why are you running? We can't outrun a mountain lion?" And the lawyer says wisely, "I don't have to outrun the mountain lion."