Gomer probably stuffs it in his pants.

Damn.

Most of the lawyer bashing that goes on misses what I have observed about a surprising number of my colleagues over two decades. An inordinate number of them are right round the bend crackers.

I will say that the night folks seemed marginally saner overall, since they had to deal with actual lives in the daytime.

Law school attracts a good share of people with certain neuroses which actually suit them well for success in that environment. But it seems that the profession sends more of them over the edge, when they seemed relatively normal at the start.

The number of lawyers I've known who have gone full-blown rubber-room bonkers is reaching the point where I am going to have to start removing my shoes to count them. One of the brightest guys I know started receiving telepathic messages from what he said were "advanced extraterrestrial elders" who were preparing him to fight a coming showdown between humans and vampires, and he kept up a pretty good practice for about a year and a half before flipping completely out. Then there was the guy who wrote what I thought was one of the most inspired appeal briefs I'd ever seen, but when we went before the circuit court panel, he kept having to pause to do these bizarre yoga postures right at the podium. We won the case, but he was freaking the judges right out. About a month after that he sold everything he owned, emptied his bank accounts, and is currently believed to be just drifting around Mexico under an assumed name.

I don't even get surprised by these things anymore - it's just sort of like, "Hey, another one flipped out."

DUzy!

Gohmert may have "remembered" this in a fevered attempt to allay his embarrassment but, curiously, no one else did... or at least in any manner discoverable via the Google:

asparagus "percy foreman" from 1/1/1950-4/7/2014

... results in one relevant hit (glennbeck.com) with a bogus date.


ETA: BTW, try it without the date restriction and you'll find the source of this story - the aforementioned glennbeck.com.

"Are you casting asparagus on my cookin'?"

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