Man of Honour
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This reminds me of the old joke:
A London lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a Glasgow copper.
He thinks that he is smarter than the cop because he is a lawyer from LONDON and is certain that he has a better education then any Jock cop.
He decides to prove this to himself and have some fun at the Glasgow cops expense!
Glasgow cop says, ” Licence and registration, please.”
London Lawyer says, “What for?”
Glasgow cop says, “Ye didn't come to a complete stop at the stop sign.”
London Lawyer says, “I slowed down, and no one was coming.”
Glasgow cop says, “Ye still didn't come to a complete stop. Licence and registration, please”
London Lawyer says, “What’s the difference?”
Glasgow cop says, “The difference is, ye have to come to complete stop, that’s the law. Licence and registration, please!”
London Lawyer says, “If you can show me the legal difference between slow down and stop, I’ll give you my licence and registration and you give me the ticket. If not, you let me go and don’t give me the ticket.”
Glasgow cop says, “Sounds fair. Exit your vehicle, sir.”
The London Lawyer exits his vehicle.
The Glasgow cop takes out his baton and starts beating the living **** out of the lawyer and says, “Do ye want me to stop, or just slow doon?”
No, it's not. It's synonymous with "comprehend" or "follow" amongst other possible synonyms - just because you could separate out two words from one doesn't mean that there's a composite there that still means the same when you break it apart and switch the words around. You don't go round telling people that "staircase" is synonymous with there being a case of stairs or that a "cupboard" is a board of cups do you? If you do then perhaps it's best if the conversation ends here.
Freemen of the land tend to prove the often misquoted line from a poem by Alexander Pope which tells us that - "A little learning is a dangerous thing". The general rule with such things is that the Freemen fixate on a small part of the law and presume that they've then understood all of it when all that has happened is that they've taken something out of context. They'll have occasional victories when they succeed in confusing the person they talk to (or rather at) but there is rarely anything of substance to the points they are making.
