Calling A Countess
A newspaper columnist was found guilty and fined for calling a countess a
cow. When the trial ended and the man paid his fine, he asked the judge, since
it was now clear he couldn't call a countess a cow, if he could call a cow a
countess?
The judge said it was all right to do so. Whereupon the newspaperman turned
to the countess in the courtroom, bowed elaborately, and said, "How do you do,
Countess?"
