Laugh? I nearly called my lawyer

After a good few years in this game, Obiter has learnt one thing - lawyers generally ain't that funny.

Well, at least not funny ha, ha.

But as sure as the lights go up ever earlier in Oxford Street, come the Christmas season there are always a few practices that have a game go in the humour stakes (the 'Santa clause' is a particular favourite).

This year, City law firm Gouldens has released Snow Joke!, a 2003 desk calendar with a pastiche of tabloid and broadsheet newspaper pages ripping the Michael out of...

you guessed it, the legal profession.

Highlights include 'Lawyer caught with hands in own pockets' and 'Liberal law firm unveils naked Fridays'.

We won't go on for fear of causing too much side-splitting.

Anyway, top points for trying, Gouldens, but as they say at open mike comedy shows at clubs across the nation: don't give up the day job.