During the cross-examination of a young physician in a lawsuit, the plaintiff's lawyer made disagreeable remarks about the witness's youth and inexperience.
You claim to be acquainted with the various symptoms attending concussion of the brain? asked the lawyer.
I do.
We will take a concrete case, continued the lawyer. "If my learned friend, counsel for the defence, and myself were to bang our heads together, would he get concussion of the brain?"
The young physician smiled. "The probabilities are," he replied, "that the counsel for the defence would."