For years two brothers -- one a lawyer and the other a deaf-mute
accountant - worked for a mobster. Whenever the mobster and the accountant
needed to communicate, the lawyer brother would use sign language and serve as an
interpreter.
One day the mobster realized his books were short $3 million. He
called in the two brothers. Looking at the lawyer and pointing to the
accountant, he screamed, "You tell this son-of-a-bitch I want to know where my money is!"
The brothers conversed briefly, and the lawyer reported that his brother
had no idea what the mobster was talking about.
Furious, the mobster put a gun to the accountant's head and screamed at
the lawyer brother, "Tell this bastard that unless he lets me know right now
where the damn money is or I'll blow his brains out!"
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The lawyer told this to his brother, who immediately explained -- in
frantic sign language -- that the money was hidden in a suitcase under his
basement steps. "Well? What'd he say?" yelled the mobster.
The lawyer shrugged, "He says you don't have the balls."
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