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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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