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A trainee solicitor begins his sinecure at his father's firm. Never going to be asked to do very much, he is left pretty much to his own devices. Several weeks, father and son have lunch one day and the old man asked how the son was getting on. 'Really well actually dad. I was having a look in Jack's old room, and I saw that dusty old litigation file that's been rumbling on since you did your Articles. Anyway, I managed to get my head together with the solicitors on the other side, and we've managed to settle it.'

'You idiot', cried the father, 'That was supposed to put your son through university as well.'