A lawyer named Strange died,
and his friend asked the tombstone maker to inscribe on his tombstone, "Here lies Strange, an honest man and a lawyer."
The inscriber insisted that such an inscription would be confusing, for passers-by would tend to think that three men were buried under the stone.
However he suggested an alternative.
He would inscribe,
"Here lies a man who was both honest and a lawyer."
"That way, whenever anyone walked by the tombstone and read it, they would be certain to remark,
"that's Strange."
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