Lawyer: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?

Witness: No.

Lawyer: Did you check for blood pressure?

Witness: No.

Lawyer: Did you check for breathing?

Witness: No.

Lawyer: So then is it possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?

Witness: No.

Lawyer: How can you be so sure Doctor?

Witness: Because the patient's brain was sitting on my desk in a jar at the time.

Lawyer: But could the patient have been alive nevertheless?

Witness: Yes, it's possible that he could be alive and practicing law somewhere.